Way to vertically justify text frames except last?

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July 9, 2024
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In the same way that the Alignment setting for paragraphs can be "Left Justify" vs. "Full Justify", is there a way to set a text frame's vertical alignment to do something like "Top Justify", so that frames that have content flowing to the next threaded frame are justified but the last frame in the story is not? I use object styles for text frames in various repeating projects (e.g. a quarterly newsletter) that have threaded stories that should normally justify to the top and bottom of the frame, and I get tired of changing the last frame to Top and also making sure no others are accidentally still set to Top from previous content that might have filled a different number of frames. Here's a simple example of what I mean:

On the left, both frames are align=justify, but the on right, the second frame is align=top. I would prefer not to have to do that manually all the time.

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TᴀW

Legend

It sounds like you're looking for something like my (not free) Unjustified script: https://www.id-extras.com/products/unjustified/

OsakaWebbieAuthor

Inspiring

Probably, although the most advanced part of your script by far (detecting "chapters" in the middle of threaded text) is unnecessary in my case and is probably the main cause for the $59 pricetag. If someone is writing a book with a lot of chapters, it would be well worth what you're charging - it's just not that critical to me. (By the way, I love the name Unjustified for this - clever!)

Also, I'd like to keep these projects portable - that is, I want to be able to hand them off to others who might come along and want to help. So I'm hoping for something that would not only not cost money but also just work behind the scenes (baked into the object style) rather than needing to be installed and then run each time the document changes.

Apparently this is not some setting I was overlooking, since both of you who have responded are talking about scripts and space-filling klooges. I think "Top Justified" (or whatever they would want to call it) should be a capability of ID itself, but that might be a pipe dream.

Scott Falkner

Community Expert

This could probably be scripted. You could also just add a couple of dozen returns to the end of the text frame. They will fill the last frame then become overset text. The last frame would still be vertically justified, but you would probably not be able to tell.

OsakaWebbieAuthor

Inspiring

...you would probably not be able to tell.

Yes I would - ID would say the document has errors and would warn me every time I make a PDF. And it could become like the boy who cried wolf - I might get desensitized to the big red dot at the bottom, and confirm PDF warnings that I shouldn't. I could easily miss something I really need to fix, even in other types of document that doesn't have this issue.

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