Indesign highlighted text red/pink

[EASYPAY GROUP]

Hello,

Can anybody help me in the right direction please? I'm getting this red/pinkish highlighted text (only when overprint preview is off and/or screen mode on normal) and it got me questioning where it's coming from. However, i can't seem to find that out.

As far as i can tell, the font is okay, and there is no offsetted underline going on. Please see screenshot:

Thanks in advance!

Greetz

[Randy Hagan]

My suspicion is that those lines may "violate" minimum settings for word/character spacing by compressing the space between characters/underlining inside of preset spacing minimums. I'm guessing that you typed in the underline characters due to the variation in indents for the second "column" of your highlighted area.

It's probably not an issue for you, since as you say it seems to work fine for you. One way to check would be by trying tab leaders instead of manually typing the underlines into the text and see if the affected type is still highlighted. You can find out more on this here:

Set tabs and indents in Adobe InDesign

Setting tab leaders can help speed layout of forms in a whole lot of ways, but as you've shown it's not the only way to get the results you want.

Hope this helps,

Randy

[Eugene Tyson]

As above

In your preferences there are settings to highlight where things are being pushed or pulled too much in the compostion

You can see that there are highlighted areas for text, Keep Violations, H&J and so on (h&j being hyphenation and justifcation, why they haven't spelled that out is beyond me, they didn't do Custom T/K - anyway)

So in short, it's just highlighting to show you if something is off kilter, but if you're happy with how it looks then continue on.

https://indesignsecrets.com/why-am-i-seeing-yellow-highlighting-on-my-text.php

[EASYPAY GROUP]

Hi Eugene,

Thank you for your thoughts. I also checked this, was off

[Eugene Tyson]

Another thing it might be is Paragraph Shading

Format paragraphs in Adobe InDesign

And this can be set to non-printing - hence why you do not see it in other preview modes.

[EASYPAY GROUP]

Thanks Eugene and Randy,

Will investigate further tomorrow. Like you said, i CAN go forward, it's just i'd like to know/learn what's happening.

I'll put some more feedback up tomorrow.

[Randy Hagan]

I'm happy to help. And it's always good to learn more about the tools you work with — that's how we work better with what we've got, even if what we learn is not immediately needed to solve issues at hand.

Because I'm not only a teacher at all this stuff, I'm also a student. I learn a lot here too.

[EASYPAY GROUP]

This one got me pulling my hair and i can't afford to lose more time . I have to abandon the search for now.

In following screenshot:

• No paragraph styles applied
• No character styles applied
• Switched font to Minion Pro
• Removed tabs
• Created newline (after "test") with space selected (see turqoise color)

Seeing i can enter newlines, i guess this means it's a paragraph thing right?

[Eugene Tyson]

Is it possible to share that page as an indesign file with us?

[Colin Flashman]

Looking at post 7, the first screenshot of the post, I can see there is a plus to the right of the [Basic Paragraph] indicating there's a manual override. If you hover over the [Basic Paragraph] does a tooltip appear revealing what the override is?

For the amount of text that is there, what happens if you copy the text into a text only application like notepad, textedit or textwrangler, then copy that into a new text frame in InDesign? What happens? Are you then able to replace the red text with this text that was just copied and pasted in?

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi,

did you check for Conditional Text ?

Window > Type & Tables > Conditional Text

One example from my German InDesign where the Conditional Text panel ( "Bedingter Text" in German ) is visible:

Regards,
Uwe

[EASYPAY GROUP]

Hi Uwe,

Yes, that was it! Thank you!

I guess i put some conditional textfields in the file in a previous version and forgot all about that this week..

I think i erased the "condition" and that's why the conditional text is red.

oh man

question solved.

Have a great day all. Thanks again.

Greets

Kristof

[michael jv47952597]

All I do is pick another font, then repick the one you want.. and it works.