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Last line of paragraph always lower (line spacing is higher)

Jun 9, 2008 10:55 AM

I often had this problem with InDesign CS3 (and I think CS2 also).
When composing a paragraph in InDesign, the last line will often be further away,
is that a known issue about InDesign. I checked the paragraph option (space afters, space befores, etc) and there is nothing: All line in the paragraph have the same characteristics.
There are no characters in subscript or superscript mode.

What could cause that?

Thank you

Louis

G5, Leopard, Suitcase X1, Creative Suite CS3.
995 Views   11 Replies   Latest reply: Aussie_leah, Aug 15, 2012 10:45 PM
 
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  • Cindy Johnston
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    1. Cindy Johnston,
    Jun 9, 2008 11:11 AM   in reply to farhana12
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    I think you need to turn on Apply Leading To Entire Paragraph in preferences, or, select the entire paragraph and check to see in the control panel if it is indeed the same.
     
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  • Bob Levine
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    2. Bob Levine,
    Jun 9, 2008 11:27 AM   in reply to farhana12
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    You've got a paragraph return at the end of the last sentence that has
    different attributes than the rest of the paragraph.

    Bob
     
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    3. Buko.,
    Jun 9, 2008 1:38 PM   in reply to farhana12
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    What Bob said you have a space or return at a different leading.
     
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  • Tom Usrey
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    4. Tom Usrey,
    Jun 9, 2008 2:04 PM   in reply to farhana12
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    Or the return could just be a larger size.
     
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    5. (peterpica),
    Jun 9, 2008 4:02 PM   in reply to farhana12
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    Brings back not-so-fond memories of PageMaker too!
     
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  • farhana12
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    6. farhana12,
    Jun 10, 2008 10:13 AM   in reply to farhana12
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    Was code from PageMaker pasted in InDesign and then compiled. Oh no !
     
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  • Brutus_Maximus
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    7. Brutus_Maximus,
    Jun 10, 2008 10:58 AM   in reply to farhana12
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    Louis, are you using fixed leading or autoleading? If you're using autoleading, any variation in point size on a line of type will affect the leading above that line. It's usually caused by a carriage return in a different point size on the terminal line of a paragraph, often in copy imported from Word.

    Addendum: So far as I'm aware, InDesign contains all-new code, with nothing carried over from PageMaker. I'm sure Dov Isaacs will come along to confirm this for us.
     
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  • Mr. Met
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    8. Mr. Met,
    Jun 11, 2008 3:47 AM   in reply to farhana12
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    Be sure there is a hard return after last paragraph. I get a lot of word files with no hard return after the last paragraph in a section/chapter and when I place into ID, the last line floats away until I enter a hard return.
     
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  • Bob Levine
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    9. Bob Levine,
    Jun 11, 2008 4:40 AM   in reply to Mr. Met
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    > Be sure there is a hard return after last paragraph.

    That may solve one problem but could lead to another. If the text is in
    a copyfit state, you're going to wind up with overset warnings.

    Bob
     
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    10. (Dave_Saunders),
    Jun 11, 2008 5:03 AM   in reply to farhana12
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    A lone paragraph return at the end of a story will never cause overset, but if you have an XML-closing-tag after that paragraph return (or any white space character), then you'll get an overset warning even though the only overset item is non-printable and not relevant to most of the things that one worries about for overset text.

    Dave
     
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  • Aussie_leah
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    11. Aussie_leah,
    Aug 15, 2012 10:45 PM   in reply to Bob Levine
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    I had this problem too and couldn't work it out. Thanks Bob, that was the issue; problem solved!

     
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