Select the General category on the left, and select the style name that you want to apply immediately after the current style from the Next Style menu.
Right-click the paragraph style and choose Edit “style-name” to display the Paragraph Style Options dialog box.
The Next Style is the paragraph style you want to apply immediately after the style for which you select the options. Enabling Next Stylesįor each of the paragraph styles used to format the text, set the Next Style option in the General section of the Paragraph Style Options dialog box. An object style can apply text frame options like Vertical Justification and Baseline Options, and it can also automatically apply paragraph styles sequentially with the Next Style feature. These workarounds might seem to take a lot of effort, but you can apply all the required formatting with a single click via object styles.
Select Preview, and increase the Baseline Start value until the third paragraph is aligned properly.Īutomating the workarounds: Next Style and Object Styles.
In the Baseline Grid section, select Use Custom Baseline Grid, and set Relative To to Top of Frame. In this example I set the baseline grid at text frame level, so that each text frame has its own baseline. Text for which Align to Grid is enabled will snap to the grid. When working with column-based layouts, where the text across columns must be aligned, a document-based baseline grid is a big help. Document baseline grid settings are set in Preferences > Grids. (Since this example uses a single-line paragraph, selecting All Lines would work as well).Ī baseline grid is more commonly used across a document, and generally aligns body text to a grid.
Click Indents and Spacing in the left column.
Choose Style Options from the Paragraph Styles panel menu.
In the Paragraph Styles panel, click the paragraph style name of the last paragraph in the text frame (ad-pricing in this example).
I’ve applied three different paragraph styles in the example: ad-title, ad-text, and ad-pricing.
Set the baseline grid at text frame level.
Ensure that the paragraph at the bottom of the frame is aligned to baseline grid.
But assuming the text frames in the layout are the same height, as in the ad-example I’m using, the workaround will do the trick. This workaround is a little more complex. Workaround: Use a Text Frame Baseline Grid
The last paragraph is a single-line paragraph, that must align to the bottom of the text frame.
The length of paragraphs one and two will vary.
The text frame contains two or more paragraphs (I’m using three paragraphs in this example).
The text frame always has the same height.
Once the Paragraph Spacing Limit is set, you can adjust the height of the text frame and the second paragraph will always align to the bottom of the frame. To make sure that space is only added between the paragraphs, set the Paragraph Spacing Limit to a number that is equal to or greater than the maximum height the frame will have. When Align is set to Justified, InDesign will align text to the top and bottom of the text frame, inserting additional spacing between the lines of the paragraphs (increasing the leading) and space between the paragraphs. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. I use 150mm (5.9in) in this example, which far exceeds the height the frame will ever have.
Next set Paragraph Spacing Limit to a large number.
In the Vertical Justification section, set Align to Justify.
Choose Object > Text Frame Options to display the Text Frame Options dialog box.
With the Selection tool, select the text frame.
The workaround for this is relatively easy, as long as your text frame only contains two paragraphs. Workaround: Use Vertical Justification and Paragraph Spacing Limit
You want to be able to change the height of the text frame while aligning first paragraph to the top of the text frame and the second to the bottom.
The frame contains only two paragraphs.
I use two workarounds to fake flexible paragraph spacing, and wanted to share these with you in two examples that require slightly different workarounds. However when I work on single-frame stories, there are times when I wish I had access to what I’d call ‘flexible paragraph spacing’ in InDesign. These settings suffice for continuous text flow. When it comes to creating space between paragraphs in InDesign we generally use the Space Before and Space After options.
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