How do I scale text in Lucid?

Hi @christina w

Thanks for posting in the Lucid Community! Our apologies for the difficulty. You can resize the text to stay proportional with your shapes by using the text toolbar and choosing the "auto" setting. This will automatically change the text size to match the shape which allows you to resize shapes and have the text automatically resize to match.

You can use the Select All shortcut (Cmd+A/Ctrl+A) if you'd like all of your shapes to adhere to this setting or select the specific shapes you'd like to alter then choose the "auto" setting for the text via the text options in the toolbar. 

If you're experiencing issues with this functionality due to the Miro import would you mind sending in a support ticket and include a document support pin? We'd be happy to take a closer look at the issue! 

I’m not reliably seeing that “auto” option when I select a textbox, whether I’m using LucidSpark,  or LucidChart.

The auto option only appears when I do not have one of these text boxes selected.

As a service designer, being able to drag to scale textboxes while working in LucidSpark is critical to rapid design.

LucidSpark:

LucidChart:

Hi ​@willonabike, just following up on this, I heard back from our development team and it looks like this is currently expected behaviour for the text box shape in Lucidspark.

The reason why ‘Auto’ font size is not available is because text boxes in Lucidspark automatically grow with the text, whereas it does not do the same in Lucidchart. I’ve attached a GIF demonstrating the differences: 

I hope this helps! Please feel free to let us know if you have any additional questions about this. 

Thanks Leianne - I agree that’s the behavior with a brand new “Text Box” element.

The issue is that when I paste in an text element from an external source, or import from Miro, the elements do NOT have that resize behavior, which is the original issue I’m reporting.

Hi ​@willonabike, thanks for following up! To confirm, are the text boxes not resizing as I described in my response above when you copy/paste from an external source or import from Miro?

If possible, could you please share the temporary Support PIN for an example document? This will allow me to take a closer look at the issue you’re experiencing.

For more information on generating a Support PIN, check out this Help Center article. This Support PIN doesn’t allow anyone but Lucid Support to take a look at your document, so you are safe to post it here.

Let me know if you have any questions, thank you!

Here is a PIN with some examples. 

duGFgYh5nEwSKa200647302

Simple way to do it was to copy a link from O365, and paste it in. 

Like this one: Exporting Visio to PDF Workaround.mp4

It pastes in small so I always want to go larger.

It will not drag to resize, and I cannot choose auto. Example of a pasted link that will not resize if I paste paste it into a text area created with “T”

Hi ​@willonabike, thank you for taking the time to create an example! It looks like these examples are created directly in Lucidspark. Unfortunately in that case, it is expected that the Lucidspark text boxes will not have the ‘Auto’ text size option.

As a workaround, if you use Universal Canvas to switch your editor to Lucidchart (you can also press Cmd+Shift+1 / Ctrl+Shift+1), this will allow you to create textboxes that have the ‘Auto’ option and will scale as you resize the shape.

I hope this helps! Please feel free to let us know if you have any additional questions.