How are you placing it in InDesign? Are you importing and placing that way or drag and drop?

What size is it coming in at?

So far as quality–screen shots are low-res to begin with. Have you checked your settings in CS6 and made sure that high-resolution is selected?

Are you on a Mac or PC?

I really can’t think of a way to automate this.

But here are some options:

If you are rebreaking those other lines for aesthetic reasons, have you considered using the “no break” feature? I normally set up a “no break” character style sheet so I can force lines down to the next line without having to use soft returns. I simply highlight the words and spaces that I want to move down, and apply the “no break” character style.

Or, you would have to set up a second paragraph style sheet where’s nested to be bold through two soft returns. Then when you are breaking the lines for aesthetic reasons, you can simply click the other paragraph style.

I have gotten in the habit of using the “no break,” however, mainly because of chapter titles and running heads. InDesign doesn’t like it when a soft return is used, and will add a space at the end of the runninghead. So I use “no break” to force lines down. Also–when we convert books to ebooks, it alleviates us having to go in and strip out the soft returns.

Are you using InDesign’s paragraph composer or single-line?

The paragraph composer really does a good job.

And even though it does, it won’t be perfect, and sometimes one will still have to tweak a line here and there.

Personally, I never have the preview on, as I can judge by eye what looks good and what doesn’t. And when it’s turned on, you can go crazy just looking at it and worrying about getting rid of them. If you prefer to use that feature, just remember that it’s only a guide as to spacing violations per InDesign and the settings you chose. To be honest, you will see a violation no matter your settings. One paragraph will be fine, but another may not. (Not the entire paragraph, but lines here and there).

What settings are you using for your H&Js? In the books we do, my normal settings are:

Minimum: 85 / Desired: 100 / Maximum: 150. Sometimes I will change those a little depending upon the font.

For the hyphenation I allow 3 up, 3 down, and 2 hyphens in a row maximum.

Maybe try those settings and be sure to have paragraph composer turned on in your style sheets.

And personally, I’d turn off that preview feature of H&J violations.

I have to admit, I don’t do much so far as GREP, but I’ve worked on lists such as these.

Normally I nest the character style sheets.

For the first one (the date), you can nest your character style through the em dash.

The second nested character style could then be applied through the period and exclamation point (you can type both of those into the through field).

I’m assuming that your paragraph style is the plain body text.

Jack

Sorry I’ve got you confused. And I should been more specific and said master text frame.

I thought from watching your video that you had single text frames on each page. And both were “inside” (i.e., closest to the gutter). And that the problem was that when you added a page, InDesign placed the text on the outer side of your recto page.

I was under the impression that you were only going to have a narrow single text frame on each page (both closest to the gutter); and maybe leaving the outside for art or something.

If that was the case, that was why I changed the master text frames accordingly. InDesign looks for the text frames when positioning text.

I had said about adding guides in case you wanted to “drag” a regular guide somewhere on your outside area for reference or something.

For example, I just did a job where the situation was similar to the snapshot I posted. All the artwork and sidebars went on the outside of the page. So I “dragged” a regular guide to establish a margin reference for myself so I’d know where to align the art/sidebars.

By inside to inside and outside to outside, I was referring to the page area. In my snapshot, both of those text frames are “inside” (i.e., closest to the gutter). Outside is the outer margin.

I’ve probably got you more confused, huh?

Dwayne

We used to have this problem with one of our publishers, and it always seemed to affect the postscript fonts.

Even when they zipped them, the came up as zero on our end.

We finally had them use StuffIt and compress that way, and then no more problems.

If I remember correctly, the postscript fonts had two resource forks. And if you just emailed them or zipped the font, one of the resource forks got lost. What was really weird was we could boot up an old machine in OS9 and the fonts would be just fine. But not in OSX.

And I think they were storing their files on a PC and not a Mac.

Try StuffIt and compress with that.

I must admit I haven’t had that problem in a few years. But when we told them to use StuffIt to send the fonts, it worked.

Jack–I experimented, and for some reason InDesign doesn’t like inside to inside when moving things. It works fine outside to inside, though.

To get around it, I went to my master pages and changed the outside margin. Say my column measure is 45 picas. I changed the outside margin to 22p6. If you still need to see your regular margin on the outside (i.e., for art placement or something), you can always place a guide.

Anyway–that worked. I think InDesign needs to see those master page guides so it knows exactly where to move that type to. Just a text box on a page won’t cut it.

Here’s a screen shot of what I did to my master pages.

Note: You may want to be sure page adjustment is checked (under liquid page).

Hope this helps.

I personally never use master text frames, but this should work with them or without.

Dwayne