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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption

094 Setting the baseline position of a caption - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

094 Setting the baseline position of a caption

Welcome back to InDesign Secrets. Have you ever noticed that some art directors are more picky than others? For example, I did a project for a client a while back who insisted that the captions, the first line of every caption be exactly one pica six down from each image. I'm a production guy, so I live to serve. If that's what they want, that's what they'll get. But how do I control that distance between the image and the first line of text? Let's zoom in here so we can see this a little bit better. The first thing I want to do is select that text frame and snap it right up against the bottom of the image. When smart guides is on, that's really easy to do, because they'll snap together. Another way to do it would be to select both of those objects, go to the Window menu, choose >Object and Layout menu, and then >Align. And inside the Align panel I can turn on Use Spacing in the Distribute Spacing section. When I click on the Distribute Vertical Space button, it's going to snap…

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