If you use a text display object to show a word or two as a heading and choose “center” in its text options panel, the text aligns left if the height of the object is tight, but centres if you increase the depth of text display object.
If the size of the object always remained at the looser height, as it does in P6, this wouldn’t matter much. But in PX the text display object can resize when reopening the form into the too-tight height, and displays the text aligned left.
Fortunately the text label object does not behave like this.
Try sizing the object to the minimum shown in your video, then click the bottom handle and reduce the height of the object pixel by pixel using the up arrow key.
I’ll send you a small PX test file demonstrating the problem.
Thanks, Gary, you’re right, and it aligns as expected when set to wrap. It looks to me like the “Don’t Wrap” option doesn’t work, either, so no point in choosing it.
I had tried the Don’t Wrap option last night when I was testing it, and I still didn’t see this problem.
David sent me a file that demonstrates the problem. When I opened it, the text was left aligned, as David said. But when I unchecked Rich Text, it centered, whether Don’t Wrap was on or not. Then I turned Rich Text back on, and it still worked. Now I can’t get David’s file to fail no matter what I do. Weird.
Ok, after further experimentation it seems the Text Display Object with the “Don’t Wrap” option set has a sweet spot (or in this case a sour spot) where the center alignment changes to left alignment. The exact spot where this happens is dependent upon the font size and whether or not there is a border. The height at which the TDO changes is shown below with each font size used.
The font used does not seem to make a difference - only the size. Note that sometimes moving the objects while set at other sizes will also cause the alignment to shift if the “Don’t Wrap” option is on and will remain that way until you try resizing it where it will return to the above behavior.
