Q: Altering text font size in a date box also irreversible resizes month font to 6 point??

This worked perfectly! Thanks for your help.

Seb

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Your fix worked beautifully.  I had several months invested in this calendar (no pun intended) and have well over two hundred photos invested in this.  I would hated to have to start this project from scratch! 

You've saved me at least 40 hours of work.  I owe you one. 

And shame on Apple for being such dolts in not providing a simple method to do this. I swear, there's much to like in iPhoto, but it's a figure it out as you go program, and rife with idiosyncracies.  The database is hosed pretty badly already, and once I've got this project printed, I'm going to delete everything and start from scratch.  Pity, because one of those things I liked was the facial recognition piece.  I spent many hours getting the bulk of the faces identified.  Now that will be another wasted effort.  I guess I'll go back to Adobe Bridge and do the work manually knowing that once the metadata is correctly updated, I'll be better off in the long run.  Safe from data base corruption risk in iPhoto. 

Looks like your workaround is a great solution (along with the additional suggestion by the other guy...).

However, when I try to download the SQLite Browser, my MacBookPro refused to open it on the grounds that it may contain malware. Did you have to bypass the warning to download it before you could use it?

My wife went through multiple e-mail exchanges over a year ago about this very issue with the Apple support folks--who actually sent an external hard drive to check our photo files for bugs or errors. So take it from us--Apple is very aware of the issue but has failed to make a fix a priority.

They are losing a lot of us for their iPhoto program for this very reason--what should be a pleasant and reasonably simple project to make family and friends a welcome gift turns quickly into a nightmare of complexity.

Read my comment about allowing your Mac to download it. It will work fine.

Sorry, Defrog--though the SQLite download was possible, I kept getting an error message when I got to the point of Step #4 in jdelisle's directions. The SQLite Browser kept giving me an error message: "Could not read file" at the point of clicking on iPhoto Library.  No "Show Package Contents" was available as an option.

We're seriously considering just doing the calendars with another program; perhaps the database is a little more friendly there.

Debra:

As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library.  Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?

OT

Fantastic - thanks jdelisle!  This shrinking font thing happened to me last year, but I didn't notice it until I got the calendar.  I called apple and they refunded my money for the calendar (which was nice, but I certainly felt I deserved it after wrestling with quirky iPhoto for so long).  I forgot about it until this year, after duplicating last year's calendar, and copying in a bunch of new pictures.  I was almost tempted to order it with the tiny font and then asking for a refund again (cuz apple deserves it for not fixing quirky iphoto for so long 8-), but your fix only took 10 minutes, and I learned something!  Doubly cool!  Thanks again - Miles