From the course: InDesign Secrets
153 When InDesign ignores your leading values - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
153 When InDesign ignores your leading values
Don't you hate it when InDesign just ignores you? Like here I am setting the leading in these three text frames? These three text frames, I'll have the same leading and the same type size but it is ignoring what I'm telling it to do. Check this out. Switch to the Type tool and I select some type in the first frame let's zoom in a bit. See them a little bit closer like that. It's merely pro 9.5 solid. Nine, five on nine, five leading. What about this one? Merely Pro? Nine, five on nine, five. What about this one? What the heck? Why is it not paying any attention to my leading? Let's say I select it and I want to change the letting to eight. So I'll select it right here and I'll say eight. It's not doing anything. It's not changing anything. What is happening here? I can tell you that there are two times when InDesign will completely ignore what your setting for leading. Here, everything is fine. If I select this type and I say make this eight point, it goes to eight point. Here it's not, and here it's not either. I'll select that and make it eight point just to show. It just made it a little bit smaller but it's definitely not eight. Well it's, I'm going to undo that, what's happening. The first instance, this is one bad boy, this has been set to align to grid. Align to baseline grid. And if I go to the View menu, down to Grids and Guides, and say, show me that baseline grid, you can see that these lines are set to automatically align with the baseline grid. These guys are not because align to baseline grid is a paragraph setting. It's a paragraph attribute that can be applied as an override or be part of a paragraph style. How can you tell if Text has been set to Align to Grid, other than not paying attention to the leading that you're setting. Select some type. And then go to the Control Panel in Paragraph Mode. And look right here. This is aligned to baseline grid. This one is the one right above it which is, do not align to baseline grid. So we know the answer to that one. What about this guy? If I select it, it is not aligning to baseline grid. Why does it have such strange, leading. Now that's because this guy is the other problem child. Let's, let me hide the baseline grid, because that bugs me. What's happening here is that this text frame has been set to vertically justified. If I edit text in here, if I add some text, hello, and hit return a couple times, all that's happening. Is that InDesign is reducing the amount of spacing in between all the lines. In fact, I could drag this text frame, and make it taller, or smaller, shorter. And it's always going to have the first line start at the top. The last line. The baseline of the last line sit right on the bottom of the frame. And everything else is going to be space in between. And if I make it too short by the way, we will get an over-set at some point. You can see there that it's reducing the amount of leading here, when I get really short then it goes over-set because it has gone beyond the bounds of its original leading. Where do you create vertically justified text frames and how do you turn that off if you don't want it turned on? You'd select the frame with the selection tool. This is not a paragraph thing. It's a frame thing. And then go to the object menu. Go to text frame options, and you'll see the setting right here, under vertical justification. The default setting is top, for the text to start aligning from the top, and then, when it aligns from the top, whatever you set for leading, and for space above and below paragraphs is intact. It's only when you turn on justification that all that flies out the window, and InDesign starts adding spacing willy-nilly. That willy-nilly. There's a method to it's madness and it's a pretty cool feature. But those are the two instances when InDesign does not pay any attention, or more correctly has to override the leading that you set.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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