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Tomasz T
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August 9, 2020
Question

Paragraph bottom border overlaps the text

  • August 9, 2020
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Hello,

I would like to fix the issue of paragraph border that overlaps the last lines of the text. I tried to fix that using a GREP style to the paragraph style. I googled an advice (Fixing Over-Extended Paragraph Borders in InDesign) and following it I created a character style which applies something like 150% vertical scaling to space character. I applied this character style with the GREP: ( )(?=\w+.~a) inside the paragraph style. The GREP works and scales the last space in the last line properly, but it did not help with my issue of overlaping the last line. After opening the files in the book everything looks fine:

 

 

As soon as I make changes (e.g. adding a new page or a line of text), the bottom border starts to overlap the text:

 

 

 

Any change made inside the bordered paragraph, e.g. insterting a new space ed deleting it helps to put the border at the right place. I try to do it each time the issue occurs. Unfortunately, I have over 30 places with this kind of border and it is hard to check all of them each time I want to export the book to PDF.

 

Please, could you give me any advice?

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Tomasz T
Tomasz TAuthor
Participant
September 1, 2020

Hello, an update in this topic from Adobe Customer Care for those who are facing the same problem:

"An Internal bug has been submitted for the paragraph border overlapping and it will be fixed in upcoming updates.

As per the feedback shared by the product team, they have checked it on Mac OS as well and the issue not very frequent when working with Indesign.

Also, they suggested closing all the documents when all the required changes to documents are done and then you can export as PDF. That should not not have this issue".

I hope you will find it useful.

Looking forward to an update of Indesign. After that I will match the topic as resolved.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2020

Can you post your Paragraph Border settings from your paragraph style or share the document?

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
Tomasz T
Tomasz TAuthor
Participant
August 9, 2020

As soon as I find the right way to attach the idd file, I will do it.

For now I attatch the screenshot of border settings. It is the Polish version of Indesign. I'll try to swittch it to English, but it will take a while.

 

 

Dave Creamer of IDEAS
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2020

You can put the file in the Creative Cloud folder and share the link if you wish.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)