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Strange Kerning/Tracking highlight color from green to blue (teal)

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September 11, 2023
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I have a strange color highlight that I can't explain.

I have kerning/tracking changes checked in composision (which I want) and this is NOT the blue that is reflected in the style override highliter (which is NOT checked. That blue is a very bright blue, what I'm referring to is more of a teal blue).
Here is the strange part. I have a chapter, say 4 or 5 pages. All with the same paragraph style and with NO character style applied anywhere.

When I highlight a paragraph and apply kerning/tracking, the paragraph turns green (which I expect).

Except on some pargraphs (not all) in some chapters (not all) the pargraph turns a teal blue instead of green when I apply a change to kerning/tracking.

I can't for the life of me figure out why there is a color change, nor can I find any reference to this type of color highlight and what it means. It doesn't seem to affect anything and the kerning/tracking applies the way I want it to, I would just like to know why the highlight isn't green like it is normally.

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Laubender

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Hi Michael,

you said: "I'm not aware of adding any transparency to various blocks of text. These were all placed from a word document in one shot."

Well, maybe the placed Word document contains some images that itself contain transparency or could potentially contain transparency like PNG images? Don't know…

You could track if any of your spreads contain transparency. There is this little checkerboard icon you can turn on/off in InDesign's Pages panel that indicates transparency on a specific spread. From my German InDesign:

If transparency is on a spread a little checkerboard icon is showing up at the edge of the spread's page symbol in the Pages panel:

In the screenshot above only the second spread of the document contains transparency.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

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mjenetAuthor

Participant

Uwe,

BRILLIANT!

Thank you so much. Yes, it ended up being each spread had (somewhere on it) one of the bar codes and those have transparency.

Not knowing the "why" was driving me insane. Thank you SO much for solving this for me, and yes I was able to turn on the transparency via the aid of your screen shots. Thank you again, I very much appreciate your help.

Michael

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mjenetAuthor

Participant

Here is a screen shot of one chapter.

Consistent paragraph style throughout.

No Character style.

The green paragraph has a kerning/tracking applied. So do the 'blue' paragraphs. One is green. The other(s) blue.

Thanks for your help.

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @mjenet ,

basically it's the same thing with the highlighting of tracking.

Tracking in green when no transparency is on the spread:

Tracking "green" color managed when transparency is on the spread:

Depending on the color management settings you have enabled when creating the document the color managed "green" could look a bit different…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

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mjenetAuthor

Participant

Uwe, thank you so much for helping. I thought I was missing some sort of style issue.

If I may, I have a couple of questios.

1. I'm not aware of adding any transparency to various blocks of text. These were all placed from a word document in one shot. Is there something I should be doing differently when placing text?

2. In terms of color settings, I've never adjusted those and in some chapters it's all "green" and in others its mixed. I guess what I'm trying to understand is what I'm doing that's causing the variance.

Again, it doesn't seem to affect anything, but I feel like it shouldn't be happening unless I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks again for the help.

Michael

L

Laubender

Community Expert

@mjenet ,

a screenshot could help to see the color.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

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Laubender

Community Expert