Reply To: Indesign Units and Measurements

Placing graphics into Indesign sometimes changes the units of measurement too – often only the horizontal or vertical, not both. So you can end up with the horizontal units being points and the vertical units being millimetres.

We work on publications which incorporate a lot of third party supplied ads and while it doesn’t happen often, it does happen enough to be annoying. I’ve never worked out the exact circumstances in which this happens, but it has been an issue with Indesign for as long as I can remember.

This is probably not what is happening here, but worth knowing about for sure.