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Setting vertical justification and first baseline position

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Setting vertical justification and first baseline position

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Where do you want the first line of text to sit inside your text frame? Now, most InDesign users just fill a frame with text without giving the first baseline position a second thought. But when quality and precision counts, you need to control every aspect of your text, including its vertical position. Here is how to do it. I have my catalog file opened from my exercise folder, and I'm going to jump to my second spread by pressing Option+Page Down or Alt+Page Down on Windows, then I'll zoom in on this caption and image on the right-hand page. How far down is this baseline from the top of the text frame? I know that it's eight-point text. So, does that mean that the text is eight points down from the top of the frame? Absolutely not. Because of the vagaries of type design, the font size, very rarely, is any indication of how far down the baseline is from the top of the frame. To control that first baseline, I'm going to select the text frame, then go to the Object Menu, and choose…

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