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• • October 24, 2015 at 4:09 am #78960
    Andrew

    Member

    Hello, I’m new here.

    I’m building some web art directions in Indesign CS6 (8.1) and can’t get paragraphs to space correctly without a cumbersome workaround…

    Let’s say I have a P1 intro paragraph of 24px over a 28px leading, with 28px space after. This should equate to a 32px space between this and the next paragraph (28 + 28 – 24 = 32).

    What I actually end up with though, is a 38px gap (measuring from the base line to the top of the next line)

    The only way I can get the space right is if I reduce the leading on the first line of the 2nd paragraph to 22px.

    Alternately I can botch all the space after settings so that they create the right spacing (tricky with different combinations of 4 heading sizes, 4 paragraph sizes, not to mention forms, buttons, and so on) and just fake the style guide to reflect the actual padding needed.

    There must be a better way to do this, any advice welcome!

  • October 24, 2015 at 4:12 am #78961
    Andrew

    Member

    …Or if my math is all wrong or I’m taking my measurements from the wrong places, feel free to correct me on that too!

  • October 24, 2015 at 6:12 am #78962
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Actually, you cannot determine the “true space” between paragraphs like this, because the size of text is almost never really the size you specify. I talked about that a bit here: https://creativepro.com/set-the-size-of-text-exactly-based-on-cap-or-x-height.php

    Usually designers don’t focus on the real space, but rather the space from one baseline to the next

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