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- DavidFelt
Any of you cats know how to make my text size show as mm's in the character pallete, i know how to do this in Illustrator but i need to do it in InDesign, Cheers
- toulouz0
Go Edit- Preferences- Text, then set it to mm
- HumanMale0
Talking of InDesign pallettes, anyone know how to reset them?!
I've messed about with mine sooo much, I just want them back to normal!!!
- DavidFelt0
You cant do that in InDesign CS toulouz, Ive tried, Its doing my head in!!!
- derm0
under the window menu, workspace - default.
- toulouz0
i've just done it again. Edit- Preferences - Text - then Units and Increments. You can set the measurement to any you wish. This is just for the text bounding box. The actual text itself is in pts.
this is IndesignCS.
- HumanMale0
I think we are talking Mac here, not PC...
ps. Thanks for the Palette tip, just spotted it...
- DavidFelt0
Yeah Im on a mac and i need it to be the actual text thats sized in mm's not pt's, Its dead easy in Illy, why not so in InDesign???
- HumanMale0
InDesign – Preferences – Units and Increments...
- HumanMale0
Sorry, I see what you mean...
Not sure you can do that in InDesign.
You might have to use something like Art Directors Toolkit. The Text tab in there can help you work it out...
- DavidFelt0
Okay, you might be able to help me out, what I need to work out is how to make various sizes of type always wrap to the bottom of the page.
I have size 7 and 10 point type all in four columns, each column needs to align with the others!
I know im not explaining myself very well! ARGH
- HumanMale0
I think I know what you mean.
If the top and the bottom of each column has to align, the only was you'll do it with different size type is alter the leading.
You could also try turning the baseline grid on (if you haven't already) and align to that?
Does any of that help?!
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- DavidFelt0
Yeah, Ive tried loads, but I think it would make my life easier if i knew everything in millimiters then I could do the maths, this things has got to be exact and it has gotta be changable everymonth, so the character styles all need to be dead on so we can just copy and past stuff in and it be right.
Im all out of ideas!!!