You need to change the default text frame object style. Make a new object style and set it to the proper first baseline offset. Then, when nothing is selected in your document, click on that style in the object style panel with the Type tool. That will make it the new default text frame style.

I think JC is looking for something that will automatically balance two or more columns, so they “justify” along their bottom edges. Is that correct? Yes, TypeFitter Pro should work. ColumnFlow from In-tools alongside their VJ plug-in is one candidate.

The Change Leading to Fit Text Frame button in Blatner Tools' Text Controls panel will do it, sort of, but in a brute-force method (just adjusts all leading across the story).

I think JC is looking for something that will automatically balance two or more columns, so they “justify” along their bottom edges. Is that correct? Yes, TypeFitter Pro should work. ColumnFlow from In-tools alongside their VJ plug-in is one candidate.

The Change Leading to Fit Text Frame button in Blatner Tools' Text Controls panel will do it, sort of, but in a brute-force method (just adjusts all leading across the story). 

Not odd at all. It happens:

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While Tim Cole is no longer with Adobe, his blog lives on in the archives… he did a wonderful series of interviews on this subject, which you can find here: https://blogs.adobe.com/indesig…..shortcuts/

And of course Casey's shortcut blogs on his InDesign1200 site…

I'm not sure why your buttons would be acting on rollover instead of On Release. That sounds odd. I would triple-check to make sure you have no action set on “On Roll Over” or “On Roll Off”

But as for where buttons “live”: Put them on a layer higher than your master page items (in the Layers panel).

Yes, that's the basic theory, Mike! Of course, few people really know what's going on inside the postscript halftoning engine (much less the APPE), so who knows what it's really doing.

I remember when I was working on Real World Scanning & Halftones (with Steve Roth, Glenn Fleishman, and Conrad Chavez) and after printing the book I noticed that there were some really weird artifacts in many of the books' low-frequency halftones — basically image details that just shouldn't be there according to the halftone theories, image details that fell between halftone cells. Well, I happened upon Chuck Geschke at a conference and showed him the book and he looked closely and told me that he had no idea why PostScript would do that in halftones… it shouldn't!

Sigh.