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• • October 5, 2017 at 6:47 am #98606
    Vincent De Nil

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    Hey IDS!

    been lurking for years but never made an account. I have a particular question relating to something similar to the Text Highlight effect talked about here:

    https://creativepro.com/making-a-text-highlighter.php

    I’m an InDesign template which uses this effect, but I would like it to fit around an entire paragraph and have actual whitespace margins. This will be used for a ‘quote’ style page to push text out from (usually dark) backgrounds. Here’s a sketch of the problem.

    View post on imgur.com

    I can set top/bottom margins easily, but I haven’t found a solution for adding run-in and run-out to this paragraph style. What setting would control this?

    Thanks in advance for your time!

    Vincent

  • October 5, 2017 at 7:12 am #98610
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    What version of Indesign are you using? CC2017 has paragraph shading which would work better.

    For several lines or a paragraph you could use that; or a combination rule above and below. In either one of those, you can use a negative amount of space for the alignment

  • October 7, 2017 at 2:07 am #98669
    Vincent De Nil

    Member

    Hey Dwayne,

    Paragraph shading did it! If you set it to leading and tweak the offsets it comes out very clean. Thanks!

    V

    • October 7, 2017 at 6:21 am #98670
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Glad to help. Paragraph shading is a great feature.

  • October 7, 2017 at 10:41 am #98671
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    Left alignement!? Humm!

    (^/)

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