opyfitting is an automatic process that reduces text size to fit into a restricted space. You decide how the text is reduced and which text formatting characteristics are most important to preserve. Simple rules reduce several text attributes all at once, while advanced rules reduce each attribute one at a time according to the priorities you set up.

In an advanced copyfitting rule, each attribute is adjusted one at a time in the order presented in the rule until the copy fits. The process stops once the text fits into the text box.

With the server-based Pageflex product, copyfitting works across entire documents, not matter how many separate blocks of text you have. You can have complete design consistency by applying copyfitting rules to multiple blocks of text within a document, even when those blocks are not part of the same text flow. Pageflex reduces all of the related text blocks to the same type settings so that all the text looks consistent.

For example, a multi-page newsletter can contain several different articles. If the variable text in one article doesn’t fit into the space, Pageflex reduces the text size in all the articles using the same specifications. You can also set up copyfitting rules to be more specific so that, for example, all the headlines in a document use one rule for copyfitting, while all the captions use another. The result is the same. Pageflex reduces the text to fit each variable document and makes sure the result stays true to the integrity of the design.