Fit Text

New! Fit Text 3 Now Out!

Fit Text 3 (version 2.5.0) is now available, and is more powerful than ever!

Main features:

Why is it better than the free scripts?

There are a few free scripts out there that will also fit text to a given frame.

Fit Text works very differently to the free scripts. Apart from the extra features (such as running it on an object-style basis, fitting text to an entire story of threaded frames, etc), and the support you get from a commercial product, Fit Text to Frame is fundamentally different

It does not just increase or decrease the size of text. It resizes everything proportionally, including indents, space before and after, leading, tabs, inline graphics, paragraphs, and just about anything that can be put in an InDesign text frame.

There is no free script out there that even comes close!

How It Works

Fit Text will fit your text to the size of the text frame it’s in. If there is room, it will enlarge the text as much as possible to fit within the text frame. It is a complete InDesign copyfitting solution.

The script will also reduce the text if there is overset text, to ensure that all the text fits into the frame.

Text is NOT distorted.* It is simply enlarged or reduced by the precise amount necessary to make it as large as possible within the text frame, or to make it just small enough so that it all fits within the text frame.

* Unless “adjust width only” mode is selected.

Fit Text now works on entire InDesign stories. If you’ve got a limited amount of space, but must get all the provided copy into that space, run Fit Text and all the text will be reduced just the right amount to make it fit in the available space.

Likewise, if the last frame of a story is half empty, run Fit Text and all the text will be enlarged just enough to fill the frames.

If you miss CorelDraw’s text-fitting feature and would like to see it in InDesign, this is the script for you!

Video Tutorial: Fit Text to Frame and Data Merge

Instructions

Select some text frames, or place your cursor in a text frame and run Fit Text to Frame. A UI window will appear. Choose whether to run the text-fitting on just the selected frames, on the entire document, or only on text frames with a particular object style applied to them.

Choose whether Fit Text to Frame should only try to fix overset text frames (this is the “Shrink text only” option), or should only fix frames that are not completely full (“Enlarge text only”), or fix both types of frame (“Shrink or enlarge as needed”).

(New in version 3): Choose whether to “adjust width only.” Normally, Fit Text adjusts everything proportionally, so if the text gets narrower, it gets shorter as well. With “adjust width only” selected, the text will get wider or narrower as needed, but will stay the same height. If extreme fitting is necessary, the text will be visibly out of proportion. But if smaller adjustments are all that’s needed, this is a great option if you need to fit text on single line and do not want some text to be less tall than the rest.

Click OK and you’re done!

Installation

Download and install the script into your InDesign scripts folder as usual.

Trial version

A trial version can be downloaded by filling in the form below. In trial mode, Fit Text only works with single-page documents.

Instant Download

To purchase the full version of Fit Text for only $69, click the “Buy Now” button. Your product and serial numbers will be available for instant download when you complete the purchase.

Money-back Guarantee

If you are not satisfied with Fit Text for any reason, simply let us know within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.