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Questions about the arrangement and styling of content elements on a page. Ask anything related to laying out print, web and other types of pages.
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How to find a font with the same width as my current font?
I'm afraid that just part of the job. The individual characters of two fonts can differ in many ways. I can't really see a way to systematically categorize fonts to avoid this issue. Even changing fro …
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Indesign: First line doesn't start at the top
You probably have the wrong First Baseline Offset setting for this situation.
Select the text frame and open Text Frame Options using Cmd + B / Ctrl + B.
Switch to the Baseline Options tab:
The …
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How can I apply a continuous gradient across the front and back covers in InDesign?
It's possible to set up your InDesign document so the back and front page are shown as a spread instead of being two separate pages.
When creating the document, set it up with the wanted Number of Pa …
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Master pages and applying adjustments to photo place holder frames in InDesign
Actually it should be possible to move and resize a frame on a master page and thereby automatically apply the change to all pages using that master.
But it only works if you haven't scaled or moved t …
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InDesign: Is there a way to make tables with multiple headers?
If I understand you correctly, what you want is actually quite advanced. You want to be able to manually define headers in a table, but if a non-header ends up in the top of a column, you want InDesig …
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Assign text frame to a paragraph's first line
You need to use Anchored Objects.
Cut your side text paragraph frame.
Place the text cursor in the beginning of the main paragraph.
Paste in the side text frame.
Select it, right-click it and choose …
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Scaling leaflet up from A5 to A0 in Indesign
Scaling everything at once holding Ctrl/Cmd + Shift (not Alt!) while dragging with the mouse (as @Lucian suggested) can be quite tricky. The outer bounds of your selection is often irregular and havin …
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InDesign best practice for headings in separate columns
As mentioned in a comment, this could be achieved using Anchored Objects. I've written an answer about that here. But if your design is as simple as you show on your screenshot, it can actually be ach …
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Critique / improvements regarding page layout
In general I think you are on the right track with this layout. I will comment on your doubts and add a few extra observations.
Page Numbers
In my opinion, the page numbers are not too small. It's a t …
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Indesign Spread Numbering
I've never heard of or thought about spread numbering before, but why not?
I see (at least) five different ways to do this. Most of them aren't "dynamic" in the sense that if you start moving spreads …
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InDesign: undeletable # character appearing after having suppressed a table of contents
My guess is, that what you're seeing is the End of Story symbol, which is a "#".
When hidden characters are shown, a "#" is present as the last character in all text stories.
It can't be deleted and …
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Replicating margins. columns and grid of an existing design layout InDesign CC
Like others have said, not every design needs to use a grid as such to be balanced, but rather a set of geometrical rules.
It's common to have some sort of horizontal grid in the form of margins and c …