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tatianasometimes
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July 18, 2017
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Why does Indesign apply leading to lines after, instead of the line selected?

  • July 18, 2017
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I have selected a line of text and tried to increase (or decrease) the leading and instead of applying to the line selected (fully highlighted) it applies the increase or decrease to the lines below, regardless of whether they are within the same paragraph or a in a completely separate paragraph.

This happens only within some of the text boxes within the document; in other text boxes the leading works as expected. I have tried creating new text boxes (with no object styling) with placeholder text with both 'basic paragraph' stylesheet and no paragraph stylesheet applied, and the leading does not work properly in either case. (The text is aligned to the top of the box, not locked to baseline or anything else.)

This is all happening in one document so far; I've checked old docs, and created new docs, and the leading works properly in both cases.

I have checked all the formatting of both the text and the text box and can't seem to find anything to account for it. I've restarted the program, the computer and also reset Indesign preferences. Does anyone have any suggestions please? Thanks!

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Correct answer smoothsea

You should be able to access the original doc at any rate on the above link. Actually that doc I shared is the IDML file I created from the original doc.

I have tried copying the text into a new document, and it behaves in the same way – the glitch seems to be attached to that particular text.

I can also copy it into a new doc and share that on Dropbox, but after I return from lunch!


Hi,

I think that this has to do with the value you have set for composition. If you check the second row of stars, you'll see that the paragraph style applied is [No Paragraph Style]. If you then go to Style Options and then select Justification, you'll see that the Composer is set to Adobe Japanese single-line composer. Change it to Adobe Paragraph Composer or single-line composer and the problem goes away.

As a side note, I would recommend using stylesheets as much as you can - it can save a lot of time when troubleshooting problems like this.

Regards,

Malcolm

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Jeff Witchel, ACI
Community Expert
Jeff Witchel, ACICommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 20, 2017

You may want to do a Save As and choose IDML as the format. It sounds like the document might be corrupted. After saving as an IDML, reopen the saved file in InDesign and the problem could be fixed.

Hope this works!

tatianasometimes
tatianasometimesAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 21, 2017

Unfortunately this did not fix the issue! Pity, it would have been easy!

Barb Binder
Community Expert
Barb BinderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 21, 2017

Can you share the file via dropbox (or another file sharing program) so that we can take a look? At a minimum, share a screen shot as Jane requested this morning.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
jane-e
Community Expert
jane-eCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 18, 2017

Leading is a character setting by default and will apply to all of the selected characters. You have one line selected.

Either:

  • Select the entire paragraph, including the pilcrow or
  • Change the preference for Type to be for Paragraph instead of Character.
tatianasometimes
tatianasometimesAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 19, 2017

Thanks for your response. However, this has no effect on the affected paragraphs. I had already tried that (and attempted to describe it in my original post, obviously not succinctly enough), and the leading change is still applied to the paragraph below, not the paragraph selected.

Changing the preferences from character to type has no effect either.

One should still be able to change the leading in a single line of a paragraph regardless whether the pilcrow is selected or not, and I can in fact do so in other text boxes within the same document, and also in other documents. This issue is affecting only SOME text boxes.

I am wondering if this is in fact an InDesign bug?

S
smoothseaCorrect answer
Inspiring
July 21, 2017

You should be able to access the original doc at any rate on the above link. Actually that doc I shared is the IDML file I created from the original doc.

I have tried copying the text into a new document, and it behaves in the same way – the glitch seems to be attached to that particular text.

I can also copy it into a new doc and share that on Dropbox, but after I return from lunch!


Hi,

I think that this has to do with the value you have set for composition. If you check the second row of stars, you'll see that the paragraph style applied is [No Paragraph Style]. If you then go to Style Options and then select Justification, you'll see that the Composer is set to Adobe Japanese single-line composer. Change it to Adobe Paragraph Composer or single-line composer and the problem goes away.

As a side note, I would recommend using stylesheets as much as you can - it can save a lot of time when troubleshooting problems like this.

Regards,

Malcolm

    Sheena Kaul
    Sheena Kaul
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    July 18, 2017

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