Text Shifts Down When Editing in Adobe InDesign

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June 28, 2024
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Why is the text shifting down slightly when I open a doc & go to edit the text, this is incredibly frustrating & time-consuming. I have restarted the program yet it is still happening??

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

Ae you using the exact same fonts from the exact same source? Different versions have internally-defined ascents that can differ from version to version (tends to happen with open source fonts that are constantly being updated... e.g. newer versions tend to set the internal ascent bigger than previous versions to accommodate more additional multi-language accents/glyphs). This causes issues with InDesign's text boxes when the setting for First Baseline offset is set to Ascent.

Harshika Verma

Community Manager

Hi @fh-incentives,

Thank you for reaching out. We would like to follow up on your issue. Are you able to resolve the issue? Please feel free to update the discussion if you need further assistance from us.

We would be happy to help.

Thanks,

Harshika

oliverb13354066

Participant

Hello everyone, exactly the same problem here. Seems as this problem occurs mainly, if an indesign document is edited, which was initially generated with an older indesign version.

rob day

Community Expert

text shifting down slightly

Hi @fh-incentives , Do you mean shifting down relative to the text frame? Check the Text Frame Options First Baseline Offset setting—it determines where the text starts relative to the frame: