Of the frame disappear under its In and Out ports. When I click on a shallow text frame (like one with just a line or two of type) with the Selection tool, the side handles That will keep your descenders neatly tucked into the frame ( Figure 3-4).įigure 3-4 If you don't like how InDesign lets the descenders of text dangle below the bottom edge of a text frame (top), add a bit of Text Frame Options) to the bottom the text frame. To force an InDesign text frame to act like a QuarkXPress text box in this regard, apply a dose of Text Inset (in Object > That may be useful if the text frame has a stroke! That program uses a line's leading amount, not its baseline, for the bottom of a text box so the descenders were always It's a little jarring, though, if you're recovering fromĪ 10-year QuarkXPress jag. This is InDesign's normal behavior and just takes getting used to. (This was fixed in CS2, thank goodness.)Ī text frame that's been set to vertically align on the bottom (via Object > Text Frame Options) aligns the baseline of theĬharacters to the bottom, leaving their descenders hanging out in the breeze below the frame. Of each column due to forced column break(s).Īlso, if the frame is only one line deep and its last character has any negative tracking or kerning applied to it, an obscureīug causes InDesign CS to shrink the frame too much, resulting in an overset frame. That reduces theįrame to hug the text content (same as choosing the command from the Object > Fitting menu).Ī couple caveats: It doesn't work on frames with more than one column, even if there's plenty of extraneous space at the bottom Would like to know if there's an automatic way to do this in InDesign?Īt any time while you're working in a single-column text frame you can press Command-Option-C/Ctrl-Alt-C. While I'm undergoing treatment for this compulsion, my psychotherapist
Since I want the frame to hug the text as tightly as possible, I'mĬonstantly dragging on the frame to resize it after every edit.
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