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• • April 4, 2019 at 10:55 am #115824
    Mariah Malczewska

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    Hello!

    I’m using strike-throughs for headings per the lovely Nesting trick posted on this site. Problem is, when I go to export the file some of the Headers format the lines differently!

    I selected thin-gap-thick for line type, with a gap color. I’m using a character style to apply the strike-through.
    – Some lines appear as intended (Thin-thick(gap)-thick)
    – Others show as Thin(gap)-Thick-Thin(gap)
    – and a third appearance is Thick-Thin(gap)!

    If I can at least get this to apply consistently to every header, I could live with it, but the randomness looks really bad.
    I have tested various combinations of overprinting for the strikethrough and/or gap color, and its affected nothing.

    I assume it is something with my export settings, because that’s when it shows up – but a) why would it be variable, and b) I have no idea What it could be.

    I have an image here, https://i.ibb.co/wQLWBbQ/Strikethrough-Formatting-issue.png

    Sorry, but I don’t know how to apply formatting in this forum yet!

  • April 14, 2019 at 8:59 pm #116063
    Mariah Malczewska

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    Anyone have any ideas on what to do? This is a publication-stopping issue right now…

  • April 15, 2019 at 5:07 am #116065
    Dieter Stockert

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    Can you describe the paragraph and character style that you have applied? Your screenshot is too small.

  • April 15, 2019 at 3:54 pm #116097
    Mariah Malczewska

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    Thank you Dieter – The image must have re-sized on upload, sorry about that.

    Paragraph Style: Small Caps, Optical Kerning, Leading 22.5pt, Tracking: 20, Ligatures, Flush Left align, right and centre tab stops set, Keep next 3 lines, None of: paragraph Rules, Strikethrough, Border, Shading, GREP, bullets, Underline.
    Settings have stored in style settings summary for: rules above, below, strikethrough, underline, and shading despite all being turned off.
    NESTED STYLES:
    Header Line through 1 Tab Characters
    [none] through 2 Non-breaking Spaces
    Header Line through 1 Tab Characters

    Header Line (Character Style): Everything inherited from paragraph style except: No underline, Strikethrough ON.
    Strikethrough Properties:
    color: dark green*,
    gap color: light green (70% tint)*
    *note have tried with and without overprint for both gap and base color, all combos
    offset: 5pt,
    stroke type: Thin – Thick,
    weight: 2pt

  • April 16, 2019 at 5:26 am #116120
    Dieter Stockert

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    Hello Mariah,

    I made a new document with a paragraph style for the headlines and a nested character style in it for the strike-through. If I understand your description, it seems to work very well. You can download the InDesign-file (in case you use an older version I saved it an IDML, too). You can download the files here:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4ocvbv86lpyylt/test%20strike%20through.indd?dl=0

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4ocvbv86lpyylt/test%20strike%20through.indd?dl=0

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