unwanted white space in text

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February 8, 2018
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I have text in a box created from the outline of other text...but there's a part where there's what seems like a single line of white space and another much larger area of white below that and I canNOT figure out how to get rid of them. There are no spaces/line breaks/paragraph breaks or anything in the original text. It doesn't seem like the shape of the text box should be prohibiting it from flowing where it needs to be... Any ideas on how to get that to go away? I'm using InDesign CS6 on a Mac.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Laura,

if you change the shape of letter S a bit, you could work around that problem:

Regards,

Uwe

BobLevine

Community Expert

One more, while the coffee is kicking in. Try turning of the paragraph composer and using the single line composer.

BobLevine

Community Expert

BobLevine wrote
… Try turning of the paragraph composer and using the single line composer.

Hi Bob,

tried that, but that did not change the issue.

Also tried different composers. Even the Japanese Paragraph Composer (only available by scripting).

To no avail…

Regards,
Uwe

Thanks for trying.

vinny38

Legend

Hi

I sure can replicate this issue.

Question is: does your text have to read horizontally?

Otherwise, you could use each big letter as a text frame and thread them all. It's a variation of Bob's suggestion, but without the chance to have your column split your letter.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Laura,

can we see the whole frame that is selected?

I think, InDesign is unable to flow text through "masks" if the number of disruptions is more than 4.

One could proof that with a test like this:
One text frame with one column in the background.

On top a couple of rectangles set to text wrap.

5 rectangles with text wrap on top: