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• • May 2, 2017 at 7:25 am #94058
    Anonymous

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    How can I get the Cap Heights of a text block to align horizontally with the headshot image placeholder beside it, where the placeholder is snapped to baselines & guides? Is it a problem with my baseline settings, first baseline offset, leading, the font I’m using, or if it’s something altogether different.

    Any guidance on how to get the top of the text to cleanly align with the image frame would be greatly appreciated.

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  • May 2, 2017 at 7:53 am #94065
    Kai Rübsamen

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    Hi Jonathan,

    first of all, thanks for your detailed explanation and your screenshot. Sadly you did say nothing about your non-serif font.

    If I have a look at your screen, it seems that the cap-height is heigher than your grid. So it is normal, that the baseline is sitting on the next line.

    So either you must resize your font-size or the frame.

    Realize that InDesign calculates intern with points instead of inches. So sometimes it is also a rounding problem! To give you more answers, please provide a idml-file instead of a screen.

    Kai

  • May 2, 2017 at 8:13 am #94066
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    As Kai said: this is normal because you have your paragraph set to “Align to Grid.” If you turn off the Align to Grid (also called “lock to baseline grid”) for that heading paragraph or the paragraph style, then it should work.

  • May 2, 2017 at 8:26 am #94067
    Anonymous

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    Thanks for the quick answers so far.

    I ned to keep Align to Grid on because it’s a 2-page magazine spread and I need the the text across both pages to align so it looks clean. However, when I do turn Align to Grid off and set the First Baseline Offset to Cap Height that the person’s name, set in font Knockout, lines up perfectly, but their biography, set in Myriad Pro, is then not aligned.

    The Sans Serif font is Knockout in weight 50 Welterweight, 10 pt with 12 pt leading. I tried to indicate that in the screenshot by calling it “Name” and the rest of the text “Body” but maybe that wasn’t specific enough.

    IDML available at:
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/leq5nm4csaqjt71/AACEp3Y1qkSfU4XQxEUKHggna?dl=0

  • May 2, 2017 at 8:55 am #94070
    Kai Rübsamen

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    Jonathan, it’s hard for me to discuss such topics in another language, but I discoved two things:

    Your creation of the columns-guides is wrong. If you stay with 12 columns, you will not have the possibility of autoflowing text. So I recommend working with ruler-guides on an additional layer and go with 3 columns and if needed, with different masterpages.

    What you are tryin’ to archive cannot work! Your grid is based on 6 pt, but the placeholderframe has 72 pt. This sounds good at a first glance, but you forgot, that the first line has no leading. So, in my opinion this 1pt differences between e.g. “J” and the top of the frame is not a problem, but this 6 pt at the bottom is.

    So, there are always two rules:
    1. Use whenever possible a grid
    2. Know when you can or should make some overrides to the grid

    Said, you will have a perfect looking result if you go with about 67 pt for the frame and move the textframe a bit to the left. Note also, that life would be easier, if not everything is a single frame. I would do anything in one frame and anchor later the images.

    So far
    Kai

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