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Leokrikhaar
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August 5, 2019
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Bullet white space

  • August 5, 2019
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Hello is there a way to make the bullets align exactly with the left margin? at the moment there is a tiny bit of white space shown in red. The type is set in ASAP and the bullets are Arial as they have to be square bullets, its in a paragraph style that pulls in the bullet as a character style

 

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi John,

there is a way if the right typeface with the right glyph is used as bullet.

E.g. Arial, glyph from Unicode 2588, FULL BLOCK.

Plus a character style applied to tame it.

From my German InDesign:

Applied character style to the bullet:

Regards,
Uwe

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LeokrikhaarAuthor
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August 5, 2019

Thanks but that doesn't quite work, I'm hoping to find a way to have exact control over how close the bullets are to the margin

John Mensinger
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John MensingerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 5, 2019

You can't. Assuming the text inset is 0, the bullet character's side bearing is already against the text frame. InDesign doesn't allow a negative text inset.

The only other option is to fake it by 'hanging' the bullets slightly; indenting non-bullet text to align and nudging the frame left to get (the visible part of) the bullets against the page margin.

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LaubenderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
August 5, 2019

Hi John,

there is a way if the right typeface with the right glyph is used as bullet.

E.g. Arial, glyph from Unicode 2588, FULL BLOCK.

Plus a character style applied to tame it.

From my German InDesign:

Applied character style to the bullet:

Regards,
Uwe

Jeff Witchel, ACI
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Jeff Witchel, ACICommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 5, 2019

You could select the text frame and in the Story panel (Window > Type & Tables > Story), turn on Optical Margin Alignment. This aligns type to the margins optically by taking into account the relative shapes and sizes of the characters.

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