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1. Re: Working with percentage leading?
[Jongware] Sep 22, 2010 2:32 PM (in response to PurplePlumUK)The Auto leading amount must be set in each of the paragraph's Justification settings. Apart from that, you are correct: if you change it to 170%, 14pt will get set on 23.8 pts, and 10 pt on 17.0 pts.
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2. Re: Working with percentage leading?
PurplePlumUK Sep 22, 2010 2:53 PM (in response to [Jongware])As I kinda thought, there's no quick-and-dirty (or change-ones-mind-try-out-change-back) way to do it when up against a tight deadline.
It's either manually select each paragraph and repetitively enter the setting or....
devote time to setting up paragraph styles.. and if one is really awake, do so in a way that all other styles inherit the one setting...
(I'm the biggest fan of styles.. however for a single or two, three pages with a few very individual but-proportional-leading paragraphs on it.)
Ok. Thank you.
Used to be able to do it, I'm sure. I'm not sure which application though.. PageMaker or Qua*cough*ack-xpress.
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3. Re: Working with percentage leading?
[Jongware] Sep 22, 2010 2:58 PM (in response to PurplePlumUK)Hmmm -- yeah, I guess for a quick-and-dirty job you don't need to set the Auto value to 170% and then use the "Auto" setting.
Just for Q&D jobs, you can also enter this in the Leading box: 14*1.7 -- InDesign will calculate the sum for you and use the result as a fixed leading. Of course, this only works once; if you decide to change the font size to 15 points, the leading won't automatically be adjusted to 15 * 1.7, whereas with the Auto setting it does.
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4. Re: Working with percentage leading?
P Spier Sep 22, 2010 3:04 PM (in response to PurplePlumUK)Hmmm...
Do you REALLY want autoleading of 170% for all sizes? That would strike me as verging on unreadable very quickly as the size of the type gets over, say 14 pts.
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5. Re: Working with percentage leading?
PurplePlumUK Sep 22, 2010 3:18 PM (in response to P Spier)Hi
Ha-ha Peter, well spotted. I did exaggorate. The point was that I wanted something other than 'auto' (120%). So 100%, 121% or 250%... the number is a bit irrelevant.. the relevant fact is: not auto.
What I've done is selected all the text within the frame (linked frames), set it all to auto.. which it copes with just fine and then used the keyboard shortcut (cmd+alt/option + up/down arrow) to adjust it by eye... and to change my mind about.. feels Q&D.
I do have a liking for inputting a memorable round number... because.. well it's memorable - sometimes when you know you've another sheet to do.. which might want doing in some other application (ie: illustrator) if you've a memorable round number, it's handy - straight in - sorted - job done.
Thank you for your interest. All the best.



