3 Replies Latest reply: Jun 11, 2014 8:04 AM by thanser RSS

    Leading & Vertical Spacing Problem

    thanser Community Member

      Here's one for you.

       

      I have a 77 page document I'm working on. Let's say you have two text frames next to each other, positioned exactly the same, vertically. They're aligned like two columns.

       

      Font family, point size and leading are the same in both text frames. Exactly the same! Text and paragraph styles are in use, and one paragraph style is a bulleted list. The bullet is a Zapf Dingbat.

       

      However, I have the hardest time getting text in both columns to line up, vertically. I can't figure out why and I'm struggling to adjust the leading between each line, and that isn't working very well.

       

      I cannot see why these two text frames, with the exact same type characteristics, won't line up . Hard returns are used between each line.

       

      What am I missing?  I can create a new document with the same layout (two text frames) and I can get the text to line up perfectly, vertically.

       

      Any suggestions?

        • 1. Re: Leading & Vertical Spacing Problem
          Willi Adelberger Community Member
          1. Do you work with baseline grid?
          2. Do yu work with Paragraph Styles? You should.
          3. Why do you have a hard return after each line? Avoid it. Normal return at the end of each paragraph is good, but not a hard return after each line, because it will not allow hyphenation and requires intensive work if changes have to be done.
          • 2. Re: Leading & Vertical Spacing Problem
            P Spier CommunityMVP

            Screen shots with non-printing characters would be helpful.

             

            My initial reaction is one of your paragraph styles has space before or space after applied.

            • 3. Re: Leading & Vertical Spacing Problem
              thanser Community Member

              Thank you, Peter and Willi.

               

              I went through every page carefully and realize that were some incorrect Paragraph Styles applied to text, that do indeed have 9px of Space After applied.  It was driving me crazy and I assumed my character or paragraph styles were applied correctly.

               

              Look for the + sign after the Paragraph Style or check every bit of text to make sure the correct style is applied.

               

              Thanks again.