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BarryRowell
BarryRowell
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September 13, 2023
Question

Illustrator Changing My Paragraph Spacing on Some Paragraph Styles

  • September 13, 2023
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This has been going on for weeks and I can't find an answer and it's making me insane because I look like an idiot to my client. I have a series of documents (labels for pharmaceuticals with VERY long prescribing information). I used paragraph and character styles—as I always do—to make the work go faster. For some reason, one or two of the paragraphs—which are used in multiple places throughout the document—are adding a lot of space after the paragraph, as though I overwrote the style in the Paragraph tab (I did not). Because there are six of these labels with very minor changes to the text between them, I used the same flowing text and just edited where I needed.

 

When I force reapply the style, it goes back correctly. But this happens every time I make the smallest edit to the file even if I'm not touching that text box (and was happening while I was working on the layout but, of course, I saw it every time then). It's not a huge problem to check and make sure it didn't happen... if I remember that I have to do that (these jobs drag out for weeks and I'm doing other work, of course).

What is going on and how can I make it stop? I have attached screenshots of before and after I force apply the style. 

Thanks.

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 13, 2023

Did you already try and reset the preferences?

Reboot the computer?

 

Can you show those settings for the paragraphs that are concerned there?

Can you please embed your images in your posts. It's kind of impossible to compare them if you have to click open them one by one. Thank you.

BarryRowell
BarryRowellAuthor
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September 13, 2023

Thank you Monika: I have not reset the preferences because these documents are the only ones affected—I assumed it was an issue with something in the first document I created but it's odd that it's really primarily 1 paragraph style that, as I said, is used all over the document but only screws up in one place consistently.

I turn my computer off every night and this has been going on for weeks so rebooting is not a solution this time (not that it isn't often!). 
Here are screenshots of the offending style sheet windows:

And the two screenshots of the text from the previous post.
This is the before:

This is after:

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 13, 2023

It's only happening in that one place? It looks like there's one extra line that Illustrator thinks is there, right? Anything suspicious when you turn on the invisible characters?

 

Other than that: would it be an option to copy the text to a text editor (in order to convert it to pure Ascii) and then delete that text object from the file and create a new one?

 

Or for testing purposes: create a new file, clean all formatting via a text editor and then paste it in and format it and see if it happens in a new file with bnew formatting?

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