align text vertically center in indd

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Is there any way to make it so that the vertical text alignment is automatic, rather than having to press ctrl + B and select alignment? maybe this is somehow possible through paragraph styles?

[Robert at ID-Tasker · Accepted solution]

Best - use ObjectStyle.

Or make sure NOTHING is selected - hit CTRL+B again - set your options - click OK.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

That's it. There are some shortcuts, but for whatever reasons vertical alignment is a frame/structure element, not a paragraph (style) element. So you have to go around the long way, one way or another, to vertically center content. Which means, then, that the vertical centering will not flow from page to page as, say, a section title moves.

ID could really use a feature to tie Parent Page or content-frame assignment to, say, a paragraph style so that chapter start pages and the like could flow through a document. I believe FrameMaker finally got a feature something like that.

But for now, Object Styles help a lot. 🙂

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

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ID could really use a feature to tie Parent Page or content-frame assignment to, say, a paragraph style so that chapter start pages and the like could flow through a document.

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By @James Gifford—NitroPress

Not sure I understand what you mean?

Something else/more than this?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

That does the page break, which would preserve vertical the paragraph style's spacing as it is set and subject to ID's quirks, but it wouldn't bring in the 'perfect' vertical centering in the new frame until the Ctrl-B or Object Style settings were applied.

Being able to link CHAPTER HEAD paragraph style to a specifc underlying CHAPTER-START Parent page (one without a header, for example, or with a defined top margin) would be a huge efficiency thang.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

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Being able to link CHAPTER HEAD paragraph style to a specifc underlying CHAPTER-START Parent page (one without a header, for example, or with a defined top margin) would be a huge efficiency thang.

By @James Gifford—NitroPress

That's piece of cake - with my tool of course. It can monitor what you are doing and could do way more than that.

Rather manually initiated, but could be done automatically - if you prefer to type your text in InDesign from scratch rather than import...

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

But of course. 🙂

It's just a fairly fundamental thing to want to tie particular content to a particular page layout, and while there are ways to work around it, being an integral thing is, IMVHO, long overdue.

I have one book I update from time to time, and with around ~30 section start pages, it's tedious to go through and adjust the three Parent page options to the final flow. It's right on the cusp of needing some better solution... if I did it more than about once a year and didn't also use the process for a final page-by-page press check. But a more general option/solution would be nice.