Instead I suggest kerning. Type a space, place the cursor after the space and before the text then adjust kerning in the COntrol panel or Character panel or use a shortcut. On a Mac it’s Option plus left and right arrows. ... View more

Open the Object Styles panel and see if there is a default style activated. My guess is there is an object style that specifies the size of a text frame or the Basic Text Frame object style has been edited to have a fixed size. ... View more

I also suggest changing the first baseline offset to Cap Height.     ... View more

Try Aldi. ... View more

The small caps should be the same as the x-height (the height of a lower case letter, such as x or m) of the text. the screenshot below (from pg vii) looks pretty good as far as the height goes.   By @Susan Culligan   If the font does not include a small caps, make one. Set a lowercase x next to a capital X then select the capital X. Adjust horizontal and vertical scaling until it looks as close as possible to the dimensions of the lowersace x. You might try bumping the weight up too, like from Light to Normal or Normal to Semibold. Once you have a style that looks right make it a character style and use that for your small caps.   Here my body copy is Avenir Roman. THe lowercase x on the right was used to set a guide. I adjusted horizontal and vertical scaling until the capital X (selected) was the same size, then I bumped the weight up to Medium and made a character style. It’s not perfect but it’s better than the default. ... View more

No. The stroke cannot be treated as separate segments. You can use the Direct Select tool (white arrow) to select one side, copy, then paste in place or Paste in Front. This will create a new object which can have its own stroke.     ... View more

You can add space after the chapter head in the Indents and Spacing section. If there is a graphic you can apply a text wrap to it which will force text to move according to the options in the Text Wrap panel. The advantage here is if hte graphics are of different size (or sometimes don’t appear) the spacing can be more consistent. ... View more

As I understand it, Onedrive works like Dropbox. The files are stored locally and synced to the service. So the files are on your desktop. I use dropbox for my work-in-progress, and it’s quite convenient. If a client sends me files when I’m away from my home/office I can copy them to Dropbox on my phone. When I get home there they are. Plus I know my work is constantly backed up (it is anyways, twice). ... View more

Which files (.indd or .idml) do I use to package and export them in and how to do this?   You cannot package .idml files, you can only open them, which will convert them into .indd files when saved.   2. How do I package and export into PDF and For Print "with the covers"? Should the covers also be in the Book Panel? They should be in the same folder, right?   For this you should talk to your printer. If you want all files packaged into one PDF you can use Acrobat to combile the files or add the cover to your book file and export the entire book as one PDF. Where files are when you combine them into a book is irrelevant. InDesign will keep track of the files’ locations so long as you con’t move them. When packaged everything will be combined into one folder.   If you are using the same link (like a logo in Illustrator) in multiple files make sure you are always linking to the same file. I often see people collaborate and use a book to package the work at the end. WHen this happens each InDesign file might be in a separate folder, far from its siblings, and each might have its own links file, meaning some images are used multiple times. When packaged InDeisgn will treat each instance of the link as a separate image nad package them all together. When this happens the copies are renamed so nothing is overwritten and hte links are corrected to match the renamed files. The result is a Links folder containing files like Logo.ai, Logo-1.ai, Logo-2.ai. ... View more

I love it when there are multiple solutions to a problem and they are all viable. ... View more

I tried searching for  ^a(b|c) and this found “ab” or “ac” at the beginning of a pragraph. Is this what you are after?  Here I used GREP Style to highlight the affected text. ... View more

Try deleting the problem pages (assuming there is nothing on the pages you need to keep other than text). Then click on the red + on the bottom of the frame on the last page, add a next page based on the appropriate parent page, and hold Shift as you click in the text frame.   If you need to keep any objects or layout changes made on the problem pages save a copy of the document you can copy from. ... View more

Try reversing the path direction of the round rectangle. ... View more

I expect you will find, over time, that that is not the way. It might seem easier to manually add line breaks where you want them once or twice. but you’ll find that editing the text, layout, or formatting will cause reflow which will mean either removing extra space or adding in space you removed earlier. Formatting with one or two extra paragraph styles is better for consistent formatting and covering your ass.   Say you finish adding the extra space manually, then go through and remove unwanted space at the beginning or end of text frames/pages. If you later edit the text or change the formatting you will need to go through and make sure any space you removed is added back if the reflowed text requires it, as well as remove any new places where space has to be removed. And you have to make sure you caught all instances of both scenarios. Using paragraph styles, while it may seem like extra work, removes both the added work and the added uncertainty. ... View more

Check the First Baseline Offset in the Baseline Options tab for Text Frame Options. This is usually set to Ascent, which is based on the current font. The ascent value is defined in the font file and can be different for fonts even at the same point size. I prefer to set this to Cap Height, but you can use any value including the current leading. If you need text frames to produce aligned baselines and the font or point size are different between frames you should use an absolute value.   In the above example, none of the baselines align, even when using the same point size and offset options as in the last two because the fonts are different. In the lower examples all the baselines align because the offset is a specific value, regardless of font, leading, or point size.  ... View more

I suggest a duotone or simulated duotone instead. https://www.adobe.com/ca/creativecloud/photography/discover/duotone-effect.html ... View more

Can you post a screen shot with frame edges showing and the text frame in question selected?   My guess is there is a paragraph rule applied to the default paragraph style. ... View more

Since it seems your font does not have an Opentype with superscripts option you’ll have to fake it. I find the best way is to type the superscript 1 (most fonts have a 1 and 2 in superscript) using the Glyphs panel, then a normal 1. Use horizontal and vertical scale plus baseline shift to make the 1 match the superscript 1 as best you can. It might be a good idea to bump the weight up by one value (normal to semibold, for example). Make that a character style.   In the example below I used 1, 2, and 3 since those were available. I gave the superscript style more vertical compression than horizontal compression (V: 52%, H: 60%). It’s a coin flip whether to go with Normal or Semibold. ... View more

Use layers. I usually put parent page items on their own layer so I can position page items below master page items as needed. Just make a layre for background objects and position it below the Parent Page layer. ... View more

Nested Styles predate GREP by several versions, so whatever algorithm Adobe uses to implement Nested Styles, it’s much simpler than GREP. ... View more

You are asking for the impossible.   You could rasterize the artwork and save it as a 1-bit TIF, which you can colourize in InDesign by selecting with the content tool and aplying the Paper swatch. This wouls still require re-exporting the image when you edit it. ... View more

Duplicate the artwork in Illustrator to a new layer and make the artwork on that layer white. Use Object Layer Options to show only the layer you want for each instance of the logo in InDesign. ... View more

Agreed. I use Cap Height so often I made it the default. To do that cahnge the first baseline offfset while no document is open. This will become the default nor all new documents you create on that device. It will not affect documents you ahve already made. ... View more