line height in PDF output

[garyjgeoaccess]

I've tried tweaking line height but encountered what I think is probably a Flare limitation. I'd like to know if others are seeing the same thing.

While I can indeed tweak the line height to larger than normal, I can't make the line height LESS than normal. Flare won't pay attention to the line height if it's less than Flare considers normal.

For example, in the stylesheet, the following attributes are attached to a paragraph style:
font-family:CG Omega
font-size: 10pt
line-height: 12pt

I noticed the leading in FrameMaker for these same attributes is a little tighter. So I tried to tweak the stylesheet for Flare so the paragraph leading would look as tight as FrameMaker.

I tried:
line-height: 10pt
and then ...
line-height: 5pt
and then ...
line-height: 0.9em

The results were always the same. The paragraph leading remained the same. Flare would NOT pay attention to my efforts to tighten up the leading.

However, if I tried:
line-height: 14pt
line-height: 1.5em

The paragraph leading did in fact increase as expected.

I know you can tighten up leading on web pages using the line-height attribute. This is not a CSS limitation. It seems to be a Flare limitation.

The Flare edit window doesn't show the tightened leading and neither does the PDF output.

Can anyone confirm what I'm seeing?

Thanks.

[LTinker68]

Does it happen with any font or just that font? I don't have that font -- is it serif or sans-serif? And is it a TrueType font or an Open Type font?

[garyjgeoaccess]

Seems to happen with all fonts.

I've also tried Verdana and Times New Roman.

Same results.

[garyjgeoaccess]

And to answer your question, I've tried both TrueType (CG Omega) and OpenType fonts (Verdana and Times New Roman).

Same results.

[LTinker68]

I tried it in one of my projects and I'm seeing the same thing and that's with Humanist 777.

[garyjgeoaccess]

Thanks for checking, Lisa.

Sounds like it's time for me to place another enhancement request.

If anyone gets line-height to tighten leading to less than normal, please post a reply.

Otherwise, this looks like a Flare limitation.

[garyjgeoaccess]

Fixed in Flare v4.2.1