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Title Tool is typing vertically and driving me a little nuts
help help help, this is so aggravating. I’m working on Avid Xpress Pro 5.7. I did something to the title tool that I can’t fix.
At the moment when I type something it looks fine until I click out of the box to either format it or save it or whatever. It then formats itself to vertical type instead of horizontal type (one character per line) I have to make the box MASSIVE to correct it to make it horizontal again but if it’s really long text it refuses to do that anyway. The box itself as I’m typing is smaller than usual as well and will drop to the next line after 7 characters which it was never doing before. I can’t find anything in the menus or help that mentions this so please put me out of my misery.
Thanks
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What font are you using? It sounds like something I’ve seen when Avid and/or Windows sees a cheap TrueType font.
If it is a “normal” font, then trash your user settings and MCState, reboot, and try this again.
Regards,
Joe Womble
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you are indeed a genius of immense stature. You’re right. It doesn’t do it with courier or Times New Roman – it’s normal again!! I’m actually using a Mac. If I move all my windows fonts over would they be compatable with the mac?
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No, not necessarily.
I use Adobe ATM for true PostScript fonts on my PC machines. PostScript fonts are more expensive but are designed better in terms of properties for kerning, leading, etc.
You may or may not see the advantage in video applications. However, the code is more bullet-proof that dissuades situations like you describe.
Regards,
Joe Womble
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