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I have been trying to solve this mystery for a few days now...and am just as beffudled as I was when I started. Perhaps someone here with more experience can help me figure out what's happening...
I'm trying to replicate an existing layout. For context, the tldr is - a predicessor had assessembled a lengthy publication as a number of different files (page1-4, page 5-10, etc); and I'm now trying to bring them all into a single InDesign file. It's requiring a little bit of untangling since some of the styles between files don't match / but alas.
Anyway - I'm noticing some weird spacing issues that I can't seem to get rid of. For example, this 3-column text box from the original file:
Has a minimal amount of space between the top of the textbox and the text in the columns. Where as my recreation:
Has a considerably larger space. I've gone through and reset the paragraph + character styles to ensure they're both EXACTLY the same - used the same fonts; checked the paragraph and character windows to ensure all the attributes are the same, checked the 'Textframe Options' (specifically the Baseline settings; but also the margins) and they are the same across both files (Offset: Ascent; Min: 0; unchecked use custom baseline grid). Everything I've checked has parity across both versions....so why the gap? I literally CMD+A to select all on the original document and Pasted in place in the new document - and this is how it shows up. Any thoughts on what I'm missing or what other settings I could look at?
Please show your baseline grid.
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A new development....When I move the text off the artboard the gap goes away.
Any reason the spacing would be different on the artboard vs off? Seems totally bizarre to me....
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Could it be that the top image has a text wrap by mistake?
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Nope! It's set to 'No Text Wrap'. If I were to nudge the text down on-page, it remains the same regardless of where i put it; and when I group all the elements and move them off-page/off-artboard the elements shift to how I'd expect. It's almost like there's a 'page' setting somewhere that I'm missing?
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Please show your baseline grid.
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Oh my gosh I feel like an idiot. That was it. My document prefrences for guides were set different to the original document. D'oh!
For future newbies like myself who might stumble across this - I was able to correct the issue by going to Preferences > Guides and adjusting accordingly. Easy fix.
Now I've just got to figure out why the text-boxes have overset text even though they are the same size/formatting as the original textboxes; but I suspect that is unrelated to the baseline settings. Much thanks for leading me down the right path!
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You have overset text because of:
different line spacing (old document / new document)
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Yes and no, and yes. But no. 😉
The spacing of my screenshots is off like that because of the different baselines. Now that that's fixed - the line spacing is correct. I think there are some justify settings in my text that are different than the original document which is spacing out some of the words in a few paragraphs differently, which is changing the amount of lines of total text (and thus cutting off the last line and oversetting the text).
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And what's with the little typos in the new text?
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Sorry, I forgot the screenshot.
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Are you referring to the errant "."? I don't think that's a typo - it's the top of the 'i' from the line below it. But that spacing ("Soon after") I think is exactly what was causing me issues and oversetting the text. I just snagged the original text-box in and it all works perfectly again - so I must have missed/changed a setting in the paragraph style that wasn't listed in the details. Problem solved! Phew.
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Sorry, my mark was on the wrong position. I meant the Hyphenation:
"Soon after spring 2020 instruction shift-ed from in-person to remote last March …"
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Good catch. That one is a mystery - looks like in the original doc it was a hyphenated two-line word...but they must have either spelled it that way or manually hyphonated? In print "shift-ed" reads across two lines. In my new doc it's one word on one line - but retains the hypen. Odd.
I'm going to chalk that one up to different cooks in the kitchen. 🤷