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dfrank
January 20th, 2008, 03:38 PM
I need to put some numbers with fractions using the type tool. When I do the fraction is the same size as the other numbers. Does anyone know how to make the fraction smaller in size ? Ex;22 1/2.
thanks
Don Frantisak
Juergen D
January 20th, 2008, 03:50 PM
If you only need ¼, ½, or ¾, you can generate those characters by either copying them from Windows Character Map or by typing ALT + 0188, 0189, or 0190 respectively.

Juergen
dfrank
January 20th, 2008, 04:21 PM
Jergen, thanks for your reply. The fractions I need are 1/16,1/8,3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4 and 7/8.
Don
dfrank
January 20th, 2008, 04:43 PM
I think I got it.Using a "pro" font,and the "T 1" subscript tool.
don
Juergen D
January 20th, 2008, 04:57 PM
Not the most elegant solution: I started out with 22½, erased the 2 in one half, copied the 1 and placed a resized 6 next to it.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6929/93367039oi6.jpg
Juergen
TonyW
January 20th, 2008, 05:03 PM
It can be done but you need to have a font that has glyph characters that include super and subscript numerals and division slash. I doubt you'll find any free ones that do but you never know. I have Garamond Premier Pro that I got from Adobe (it came with Photoshop CS2) and that has them. In Elements the easiest way to use them is to use the Windows Character Map to find and assemble the fraction and then copy and paste it into Elements. I can't reproduce it here because the forum doesn't understand subscript but 1/16 looks like this in Elements:

1824

Tony
TonyW
January 20th, 2008, 05:07 PM
Juergen: That's pretty good - here's what it looks like if you have a font with super and subscript glyphs.

1825

Tony
dfrank
January 20th, 2008, 06:25 PM
Tony, I have elements 4 and cs3 with garamond preimer pro, and I like the way your 1/16 looks. When I use "T 1" the fraction appears above the number, how do you get it in the same line.?

Don
TonyW
January 20th, 2008, 07:34 PM
Don: I didn't do anything special - I just found the characters in Windows Character map (use Group By and look at the Unicode Subrange Super/Subscript for the numbers and General Punctuation for the Fraction Slash) put the 1/16 together, copied and pasted into an Elements text layer and inserted the 22 in front of it.

Tony