Mac OS X 10.7.3
InDesign CS 5.5
I designed an illustrated book using the split columns feature all the time to switch from headings and one-column paragraphs to two columns, which works fine (except that it slows down ID appreciably, but that can be considered common knowledge).
As I also needed projecting bullets in many of the paragraphs, I gave all paragraphs a left indent, which also works fine – most of the time. However, on some pages (less than 5%) ID seems to “forget” these indents in the first line of column – either on top of the page or below an image, and both in the middle of a paragraph and at the beginning of it.
The text duly jumps back into place when I option-click the relevant paragraph style in the list, but the main problem is that the situation is not stable. After closing and reopening the file the problem can reoccur in either the same or a different place.
Needless to say that this is very, very irritating. The workaround I came up with is effective but hardly less annoying. I use empty placeholder frames with text wrap to force the text in its ‘bed’. Not a great solution for a book of over a thousand pages in two languages. What is more, the instability means that the problem can occur in other places (and I don’t feel tempted to add some 5,000 to 6,000 placeholder frames throughout the book, if I can avoid it).
This is clearly a bug (I also had it with ID CS5). The problem occurs in 11 (out of 12) files of the book, although it is more frequent in some of them. Other than the obvious fact that the issue is related to the use of the left indent (as a matter of fact, the problem doesn’t occur in the 12th file, where on account of a slightly different layout I didn’t use the indent), I have no clue what might be causing it.
Anyone?
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