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Setting vertical justification and first baseline position - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Beyond the Essentials
Setting vertical justification and first baseline position
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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Filling with placeholder text5m 35s
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Tracking text changes9m 12s
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Choosing other languages5m 45s
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Adjusting text hyphenation and justification9m 5s
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Adding hanging punctuation with Optical Margin Alignment5m 40s
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Controlling orphans and widows with Keep Options5m 41s
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Aligning to a baseline grid9m 1s
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Setting vertical justification and first baseline position5m 38s
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