Baseline shift appearing different in same document on separate computers

[danar56436016]

My colleague and I are working on the same indesign document through a shared drive and the paragraph styles are showing up differently on each computer. We've reset all preferences and double checked that the paragraph styles are exactly the same. The paragraph styles work on other people's computers, just not this one. 

My colleague's text basically shows up as shifted upwards on all of the text boxes. This happens on new master pages and any new document she opens from our template. Doesn't happen on anyone else's comptuers with indesign. Again, we've checked that all the paragraph styles are the same and reset both computers to default settings!

Help!

Computer 1 - normalComputer 2 - shifted up

[Laubender]

Hi,

are you sure that you are using absolutely the same version of fonts?

I'd check that first on every machine.

You could package a document where a Document fonts folder is added.

Share that packged folder. Do not move the InDesign document out of that folder.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[danar56436016]

Thank you so much! It fixed the problem!! It worked within the packaged folder but not when it was moved out, so we de-installed the fonts and re-installed them and now it appears to be working!

I think the fonts we de-installed and re-installed were exaclty the same, so not sure what the actual issue was - do you happen to know why that would have happened? 

But again, thank you!

[Laubender]

Hi,

I'm not sure what exactly happened.

Still, it could be that different versions of the same font from the same manufacturer were installed. Maybe you could have told by seeing into the detailed info of a font when used with InDesign. For that you have had to look under Type > Find Font…. with a document open.

From my German InDesign:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[danar56436016]

Thank you again. I think we realized that the specific fonts being used (the bold), were activated from Adobe fonts vs the truetype fonts that I was using. 

[rob day]

From your capture, my first thought was the text frame was using a different First Baseline Offset, which can be saved in a text frame Object Style. Object Styles work the same as Paragraph Styles, so if you are sharing a document and you both have an Object Style with the same name that is applied to the text frame, you could get the change you are showing between machines. For example if the text frame has the default [Basic Text Frame] applied, but the definition of that object style is different on the 2 machines.

Here's [Basic Text Frame] with Ascent as the Offset vs. x Height as the Offset: