Graphical offset in repeating fields

[Steven Cappiello]

I have a repeating field stacked vertically.. I needed to conserve real estate, so I turned it down to 9 point.. and have tried to make the fields as vertically short as possible.. when I click into the field though, the edit box that shows up is a bit offset. It's only about 2 pixels, but since the field is 9-pt text, it's visually pretty bad looking.. I've attached a screenshot to show you what I'm talking about..

any ideas how to fix or get around this :

FYI.. the reason the edit box is pink is because i'm using the technique whereby you set the background to a color, make the fields transparent.. and put them against a white background so that the field being edited is highlighted.

snapshot.pdf.zip

[MoonShadow]

Have you checked the graphic format (right-click, Graphic Format)? Make sure it is set center-to-center and reduce. Reduce/enlarge should also work but I know FM7 had issues with graphics fill and I'm unsure if it's fixed for Macs.

[Steven Cappiello]

It's a text field.. not a graphic field.

what I meant by graphical offset was that the edit box should be exactly over the field, but it's not,

it's offset by a few pixels downward.. I played witht the vertical text alignment, but nothing makes it perfect.

As far as I can tell, this problem only occurs with vertically stacked repeating fields and may be noticeable when using only a small font size (i'm using 9, and can't get any bigger on my layout)