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• • July 13, 2011 at 6:34 am #60036
    Terri Williams

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    I've changed what's suggested in the justification word and letter and glyph spacing but still my paragraphs are not eye friendly. Out of options and need help please.

  • July 13, 2011 at 12:59 pm #60038
    Brett Stone

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    I've learned to watch for the following:
    1) On documents converted from Xpress, change the paragraph styles kerning option to Optical, then back to Metrics. This can clear out an over-riding setting. I haven't found this to be needed in a 'fresh' indd file.

    2) Be sure that your new justification settings are applied to all paragraph styles (using the 'based on' feature.) It's a bit a of a pain, but I make a master style for body text that has the correct settigns, then always 'base' on that. To verify, I can temporarily change the color of this master style and watch where it migrates to in the document.

    What fonts are you using? Are they possibly old and not well kerned to begin with? If this is the case, you might consider optical kerning which can bypass a poorly kerned font.

  • July 13, 2011 at 2:56 pm #60041
    Terri Williams

    Member

    I've been using Chapparal Pro. What font would you suggest for a 32 page program with lots of text, double columns.

    I like your suggestion of master style for body text with correct settings. Thank you!

  • July 14, 2011 at 1:52 am #60045
    Tim Hughes

    Member

    Chapparel Pro is a well designed Adobe typeface there should no need to change the justification and glyph spacing at all.

  • July 14, 2011 at 1:53 am #60046
    Tim Hughes

    Member

    Ouch double post!

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