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unknown

Hi guys,

I incountered a very annoying error in InDesign. I created a layered font called Kryptonite. It exists out of 3 layers that on top of eachother form a font that resembles the logo I ones created for a client.
The correct order in which the have to be stapled is: A (Blue), B (Green) and C (White).

In QuarkXpress (yak) the fonts are perfect, but in InDesign (jummy) it seems like the baselines are shift. The font doesn't fit anymore.
I checked in FOG but everything is consistent. Has anyone had this error too? I know it's a problem that you don't encounter unless you use a font like this, but perhaps someone knows.

In this image you can see what happens. The upper one is Quark and the lower one InDesign.

Kryptonite error

Please help, because I spent a whole lot of time getting this font to fit properly.

Thanks,
Ren�

unknown

Ren� --

It looks like Indy is determining the location of the baseline based on some characteristic in the font which varies in each of your versions -- for instance, the highest point of your ascender.

Try setting the First Baseline Offset for each text frame to a consistent Fixed measure in the Text Frame Options dialog.

-- K.

unknown

I would make the logo as a whole identity, in Illustrator.
I would adjust kerning and traking of that logo.

unknown

Kent is on the right track, but I think it will work better if you set the First Baseline Offset to "Leading". Also, make sure the leading is the same for all three text boxes.

BTW, I wouldn't call this an error so much as an inconvenient default setting. Quark has a similar setting (I seem to recall) which used to default to the same thing. They must have changed it at some point, or perhaps your Quark default setting is different.

unknown

> Kent is on the right track

Not just that. This is the solution. Man, is that inside information. Now it works beautifully. Thanks Kent.

> but I think it will work better if you set the First Baseline Offset to "Leading".

Not really. This will put the text much deeper in the text box, so it looks 'wrong' to me. The option from Kent 'looks' better. I don't know whether it's also effectively better.

> I would make the logo as a whole identity, in Illustrator.

Alessandro, it is already a logo, I made a font out of it afterwords.

Thanks guys for the great help.

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unknown

Sorry, I have not read your message carefully.
That is a nice project!
Best,

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