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Left Justified Text Creating Uneven Spacing Near Spine

Forum|Forum|5 months ago
October 21, 2025
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Hi Community,

When I apply Justify with Last Line Aligned Left to my text, the content tends to stretch awkwardly toward the spine, creating unnecessary gaps (as shown in SS1). even after hypenation is allowed the letters are not splitting.

What I’d like instead is for the text to have a clean left justification, but with a natural white space at the end of each line — more like what’s shown in SS2.

How can I achieve this effect while still using Justify with Last Line Aligned Left justification?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Samuel,

Another basic question:

Are you controlling this text only with a Paragraph Style and also no over-rides are bothering it? Also, no Character Styles are turned on and active on the text that should only be influenced by your Paragraph Style? When your Type tool is in the text, it should highlight the Paragraph Style in the Paragraph Style panel, while the Character Style panel shows None as highlighted.

Mike Witherell

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

I share Mike's interest in seeing a screenshot with Hidden Characters. The most simple answer to your question is just "add right indent!" but I don't think that is what you are looking for:

even after hypenation is allowed the letters are not splitting

Do you have the text marked as Telugu? Seems to work here:

Maybe a soft return was used, as Mike suggested? Maybe No Break was applied? Have you tried the same thing in a brand new file with different text?

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samuelputlaAuthor

Participant

Hey thanks,
these work if I was working on one or two pages.
currently I am working on more than 2000 pages thats the challenge.
please check the reply I gave to Mike Witherell

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

That would be the challenge, yep!

Did you see where I asked you if the text was marked as Telugu? I don't read Telugu, but if you are required to set that text with large fonts and narrow columns, I think you'd need to have hyphenation turned on & working in order to get the layout you're looking for. When I look at the text sample that I OCRed from your initial screenshots, I see that the red-underlined phrases are all one word, and they simply don't fit on the line above.

What can you, do besides hyphenate?

That's an unavoidable hazard when working with narrow columns, if your target language has long runs that can't be broken. Hyphenation is working in Telugu for me; why isn't it working for you? Do you have a paragraph style applied to this text? Is the paragraph style marked as Telugu? Is hyphenation turned on? Hyphenation settings are language-dependent, so you won't get automatic hyphens at all if your text is not marked with the correct language.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Can you show a screenshot with Hidden Characters showing?

I am wondering if the lines are broken with a soft return rather than a hard return?

Mike Witherell

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samuelputlaAuthor

Participant

I attached the files with hidden characters shown.

In SS NEW2 is the desired output and the original format.
when I double the size of the font to make it bigger(this is the new requirement) the stretching is happeing.

I want all the page other than marked in red box to be fully justified and the content alone in the redbox in SS New to stay to the left as shown in SS New2.

please help.

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