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'Apply Bullets' look inconsistent

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    • September 15, 2010 at 7:45 am #57001
      Sudie
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      Hello all;

      I have a doc where all the attributes are set up the same but the size of the bullets when using 'Apply Bullets' is inconsistent.

      What affects the appearance (size) of the bullets?

      Any theories would be much appreciated.

    • September 15, 2010 at 8:18 am #57004
      Anonymous
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      Create a character style and call it “Bullets”

      Then when you apply a bullet – go to the section for the Character Style and choose the style you made, called “Bullets”

      You can then control the size of the Bullet by editing the character style, and increase or decrease the font size in the character style.

    • September 15, 2010 at 11:25 am #57011
      Sudie
      Member

      Thank you Eugene but here is the challenge. The applied bullets in InDesgin does not seem to generate an actual character so it would mean going through every instance and adding a bullet. These bullets run though 58 pages (and counting) of this doc.

      Does anyone know if there is a way to search for these intangible bullets so I could replace with something that is more controllable?

      The better question is probably what affects the appearance of these 'bullets'? All of the attributes (point size, font, etc.) are identical but the end product appears to be smaller.

    • September 15, 2010 at 11:32 am #57012
      Anonymous
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      Did you use Paragraph Styles? You should have made a paragraph style for Bullets.

      Very hard to know what you mean – can you post a screen shot?

    • September 15, 2010 at 12:23 pm #57014
      Sudie
      Member

      I'm using the function under: Type > Bulleted & Numbered Lists > Apply Bullets.

      InDesign creates the affect. Paragraph or character styles don't change the end result.

      I do have a screen shot but cannot figure out how to attach/insert. Sorry.

    • September 15, 2010 at 11:48 pm #57025
      Roland
      Member

      If you create a Paragraph style that contains the bullets, you can assign a character style to the bullets themselves. Setting the character style to only change the font size, you can adjust the bullets' size “on the fly”, as well as their baseline shift, if you need to alter that.

      I don't have access to an image uploading service right now, but if you need screenshots I can add them later.

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