InDesign Question: Baselines 66 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 3 months ago | Thread started: Feb 28, 12, 12:11 p.m.

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• gramme

  Does anyone know how to make your baseline grid apply to the pasteboard? I'm dealing with digital magazine content that will scroll (yeah yeah, I know, it should be HTML5), and the overall design depends heavily upon a baseline grid. If a text box is completely off the page, i.e. on the pasteboard, it loses its grid alignment.

  Is it even possible to fix this?? It's driving me nuts.

  Feb 28, 12, 12:11 p.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  Lemme back up, since this is such a niche discipline...

  Digital magazine plugins for InDesign let you create a frame in which text can scroll, much like a website. Scrolling content can drop off the page and extend to any length.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 28, 12, 12:13 p.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  Just figured out a workaround, on the odd chance someone else does this sort of work.

  Cmd B > Baseline Options > Use Custom Baseline Grid > set to increment that matches the layout grid.

  And now it's snapping to attention, no matter where the box lives.

  • I am the sound of one hand clapping.– gramme

  

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  Dog-earFeb 28, 12, 12:33 p.m. – Permalink

• pressplay

  post to useful thread

  

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  Dog-earFeb 28, 12, 12:39 p.m. – Permalink

• pressplay

  btw what‘s that digital magazine plugin for Indesign you‘re talking about?

  • digital publishing– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earFeb 28, 12, 12:41 p.m. – Permalink

• spendogg

  Good to know gramme. Thanks for talking it out with us :)

  • QBN is better alone.– MrT

  

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  Dog-earFeb 28, 12, 12:42 p.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  Hehe.

  I'm using the Woodwing plugins right now. About to switch to this new Woodwing + Adobe DPS alliance in a month or two. Best of both worlds.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 28, 12, 2:29 p.m. – Permalink