Text Box Moves When Previewed/Exported

[Avery R]

In my document I have alligned two textboxs to line up on their right sides. When I preview or export to a jpg, one of the text boxes moves to the right about 20 pixels. What is causing this? I can show pictures if that would help. Thanks!

[Avery R]

[Laubender]

Hi Avery R,

what happens if you group the two text frames?

What's your version of InDesign?

What operating system?

This seems to be a bug. You can report it at InDesign UserVoice:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Avery R]

Hello thank you for the response!

Grouping the two text frames did not solve my issue. I am on the latest verion of indesign (16.0 I think), and I am running it on Windows 10.

[JonathanArias]

is this happening in the actual final document? thats really what matters here. that preview feature is not a true web browser. what format are you going for?

[Avery R]

I have not checked yet, my professor wants it to be an ePublication.

[JonathanArias]

right. so you should test it. that preview is not accurate. dont' just go with what you see in the preview. Next, all format have different capabilities/things they don't support.

and ePublication can be different things, such as: Is it epub. interactive .pdf, html via publish online.

So, again. what format are you going for?

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi Avery R,

it would help if you'd make a sample document available.

Put the file on Dropbox or a similar service and post the download link.

The bug that you are seeing is a very strange one.

The shifting of one element should not happen if you output to JPEG or to any other format.

( An exception would be perhaps Reflowable EPUB. )

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )