Something happens to my view format after I’ve dropped an image into an RTF. The text becomes so small that I can hardly read it. I then have to increase the font size if I want to see edits. And that’s not good because then, if I want to print it out, the printed font is huge.
All seems well until I close the RTF after an image drag and drop into the file. When I reopen the file the text is so small I can hardly read it. The top screenshot shows the appearance after closing and then reopening the New Rich Text 8 file, note how small the top text is . Compare it to the the bottom screenshot which shows the normal appearance in the DT4 edit screen immediately after drag and drop of the image. It seems like some format change happens upon close and then reopen of the RTF. And by the way if I open the RTF with TextEdit the text appearance also is that extremely small size.
I am not seeing any issue here. What OS are you running?
I’m Running DT4.1, Sequoia 15.6.1 (24G90) on MacMini M1
While it may not make a difference here, the current version of macOS Sequoia is 15.7. You should update and stay current with the point releases.
I’m also running DT4.1, Sequoia 15.6.1 on a M1 Mac. But I am not seeing this problem when I drop images into a RTF file.
However, I did notice one thing, and I wonder if it is related. The following screen shot is a new RTF file made in DT. The text is formatted as Georgia 15pt, 1.0 line height. Then I dragged the JPEG in-between the two lines.
I noticed that if you place the text cursor on the left side of the image, the format bar shows the font and size to be Georgia 15pt. But if you place the cursor on the right side of the image, the format bar shows the font to be Times New Roman 15 pt.
What are your Editing > Format settings?
Interesting… mine shows the plain text font when the cursor is on the image’s line.
I have an answer to my issue, but not a thorough understanding. It relates back to an issue I had with RTF font appearances when I upgraded to DT4 back in August. RTF font format appearance changed with DT4 Upgrade
I duplicated my current issue. And as previously, the font shrunk after I added an image then closed and opened the RTF. Then I remembered my previous post, dealing with persistence of the zoom setting for RTF’s. That when you change the Zoom setting for RTF’s, it doesn’t just change the document you are editing. The new zoom setting is applied automatically to all subsequent RTFs
So, back to my current issue. With my small font RTF open, I Zoomed in using View>Zoom>IN until the small font had increased to a comfortable reading size. I then closed and opened the RTF and the increased font appearance persisted. I then created a new RTF and dropped a screenshot into it. Then closed and reopened the RTF. All was fine, the text appearance stayed the same and so I believe I’ve corrected my problem, but I don’t feel it’s fixed because I don’t understand the cause of the change.
If the zoom setting is persistent, and if I had inadvertently changed the zoom setting, then it seems to me that all subsequent new RTF’s should have started out with the tiny text and I would have recognized it right away.
Note:I can replicate the tiny font with View>Zoom>Actual Size. And get to a readable size with 3 Zoom IN commands. But I haven’t been able to find the current zoom level setting - just that I can see the font comfortably.
Perhaps after I’d added the image to the file and reopened it, DT4 used the Actual Size zoom setting for the modified RTF rather than my default zoom.
I thought this was resolved, but it isn’t. I updated my OSx as you suggested and am still having substantial conflicts in text appearance when comparing DT4 print with TextEdit or Pages. I’m opening up an issue with support. It may be something with my specific setup but I haven’t been able to resolve it.
Got this response from BLUEFROG in response to my Tech Request:
“In the Print dialog, enable Rewrap contents to fit page.”
And that did the trick.
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