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I am pretty much of a novice at all of this, but over the past couple years I have managed to make several websites using the older version 12 of Create. I have been putting off upgrading because while my laptop is running OS 10.4.11, my desktop eMac is still running 10.2.8. I didn’t want to be in the position of having different versions of the program and not being able to exchange Create documents between both computers. Am I correct that the new version of Create will not work with 10.2.8?

But now I am getting ready to do a major overhaul of one of my websites and add a lot more pages. So I went ahead and upgraded Create on my laptop to the newest version mainly because after reading the new release notes, I was hoping the CSS capability would eliminate my previous headaches with grouping and overlapping objects.

Know that I personally do not know HTML or how CSS works. I love Create because it takes care of all of these things without my having to understand them.

But I have run into a problem. I have hunted through past forum posts but I am not finding any reference to it

I have been playing with a duplicate of my current website’s Create file so I could see how CSS works. It indeed keeps things where they are supposed to be. But when I have CSS checked and create web pages, I am winding up with a bunch of extra scroll bars all over the page and the bottoms of text blocks are cut off. What is causing them and how do I get rid of them?

Also, is there a newer version of the Create manual available anywhere or is there one in the works? I only seem to be finding the 2005 version and there have been LOTS of changes since then.

Thanks for your help.

Here's what's causing that - in v14 we introduced Text Resizing - with a text block selected, Info -> Object - there's a new popup. Choose "Size to Fit" to NOT get scrollers in web output. Fixed Size allows scrollers

(From the release notes under Help menu)


Text Features

• Text now has three sizing modes set in Info -> Object "Text Resizing" popup:
(or Control-Click to get context menu with these options!)
- Size to Fit: text grows and shrinks as needed in vertical direction when you edit it
When you resize text width with middle right knob, it grows or shrinks vertically to fit
This is the default mode, as it is closest to the old Create behavior

- One Line: good for headlines - text box is sized to just fit the text on one line
Centered Text stays centered as it grows and shrinks
Right Adjusted text stays right aligned as it grows and shrinks
Making Bold/Font changes keeps the text box the exact size

- Fixed Size: text is clipped to its box - but you see it all when editing
This is great for page layout design when you want the text block a certain size
Web page will show scrollers if there's text overflows
Also great for web page design for the same reason

- If a text block is chained, you cannot set its sizing mode, it's Fixed Size

Text Styles (Format -> Styles -> Styles..., "Edit") can support the different modes if you set this hidden default:
defaults write com.stone.Create TextStyleHasResizeMode YES
- you can alter a style's Text Resizing mode via Style Editing
- If you apply a Style to an entire text block, its text resizing updates
- Also if you update a style that has been applied to an entire block.
- this is off by default because it can lead to multiple identical styles except for ResizeMode