MacDraw: Text Word Wrapping onto Additional Lines

This information was provided by Claris Corporation on 16 March 1998, and incorporated into Apple Computer's Tech Info Library.
Issue: A document containing text may wordwrap some of the text onto an additional line(s). This may happen when a MacDraw II or MacDraw Pro document is created on one computer, then opened on another computer. Or it may happen when a MacDraw II document is opened in MacDraw Pro on the same computer.

Explanation: When a text block is created in MacDraw II/Pro, it has a defined width. However, differing font technologies (bitmap vs. TrueType vs. ATM) may produce characters of different widths. If a text block is created using one font type with narrower characters, then opened on another computer with a font type that has comparatively wider characters, MacDraw can't place as many characters on a line. It will then have to wordwrap the last word on a line to a new line below. The issue is most noticeable with stylized text (bold and italic).

The solution is to resize the text block so that the text block matches the original.
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012