Chinese text baseline shifts away

[BShen]

I have two fonts:
English - Poppins (taken from Google fonts)
Chinese - DengXian (available from system)

now I used GREP to match them together in one text box, but DengXian goes off the baseline when there's no English text present (which making the text going above the normal text bounds). Making them co-exist will fix the problem, but no way I would put a letter before every line of Chinese text.

Any ideas to let DengXian stays where it's supposed to be?

[Abambo]

What OS? (I'm asking because on my Windows 7 system I do not have the Chinese font you mention).

Is the DengXian-font behaving the same for Latin characters?

Could you post a screen shot of what you experience?

(You could also check if a different Chinese/English font solves the issue. Noto Sans CJK SC is a free Asian font from Google. The same font, different Name is also available from Adobe. It's a good testing font for this).

[BShen]

Windows 10.

Above is CH characters without English characters.

Below is CH with EN.

[Laubender]

Hi,

what are your options for first baseline of the text frame?

You'll find that in the Text Frame Options dialog in the second tab.

Regards,
Uwe

[BShen]

which one does the job?

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

I'd say you are good to go with Offset: Fixed Height or perhaps Leading.

Fine tune the value for Minimum when doing Fixed Height and do an object style for the text frame.

Regards,
Uwe

[BShen]

Fixed height +3mm fixes it for now, thanks.

[Abambo]

Different fonts may use different parameters even if they are the same point size...

[BShen]

problem's on the font itself then?

one thing I didn't manage to figure out is somewhere inside my file there's one working without this 'glitch'.

[Abambo]

Just to say, the problem (if it is a problem) is related to the font and its definitions:

Use of fonts that are compatible would be the best solution.