Help! Same font setting but different outcome between Illustrator and InDesign CS6

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April 4, 2018
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I need urgent help!

I have a brand guideline for a letterhead for my company.

I have created the letterhead in Illustrator but the vendor prefers InDesign. So using the same guidelines, the text size in InDesign appears larger than the text in Illustrator. Even the 'Space after paragraph' is different between the 2 programs.

Why is that so and how do I solve this?

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Correct answer rob day

So using the same guidelines, the text size in InDesign appears larger than the text in Illustrator. Even the 'Space after paragraph' is different between the 2 programs.

Are you seeing the difference when you print or is it only when you compare the pages at the 100% zoom view? InDesign and Acrobat use a different magnification scale than Illustrator and Photoshop. The 100% view in InDesign shows the print output size. In Illustrator the 100% view is the 1:1 ratio of image to monitor pixels.

Equal text sizes should print the same out of the two applications.

zealousliAuthor

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Hi All, thanks for your replies! I did noticed that on-screen. Even at 100% the size is different. So I printed out and compare, it is the same. Thank goodness! Solved!

rob day

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So using the same guidelines, the text size in InDesign appears larger than the text in Illustrator. Even the 'Space after paragraph' is different between the 2 programs.

Are you seeing the difference when you print or is it only when you compare the pages at the 100% zoom view? InDesign and Acrobat use a different magnification scale than Illustrator and Photoshop. The 100% view in InDesign shows the print output size. In Illustrator the 100% view is the 1:1 ratio of image to monitor pixels.

Equal text sizes should print the same out of the two applications.

Creative Ki

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Hi Steve and Rob,

I'm having this problem of font sizes not matching between Illustrator and InDesign. Font size in Illustrator is 70 pt. When I bring the Illustrator file into InDesign to match the size the font would need to be larger than 100pts to match. See screen shot.
I'm bringing in the Illustrator file at 100% scale — meaning I'm not enlarging the Ai file within Id.

Thanks,

Michael