Re: Highlight Text In indesign

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From: Roy_McCoy
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:53

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hm24_arul wrote:

> There is a option to highlight custom tracking/kerning, h&j  
> violations and etc.... This option will highlight the custom  
> tracking/kerning lines in the indesign document. The highlighter  
> will not print and will not give any disturbance to the document.

I have an additional question on this, hope it isn't too off topic. It  
may involve something scriptable, I don't know.

Having used PageMaker as long as I did, I wound up with the habit of  
working with text until I'd gotten rid of all of these highlights. A  
line was either highlighted or it wasn't, so I always knew which lines  
to correct and when they'd been sufficiently corrected. Now with  
InDesign, however, there are three levels of highlighting, and the  
spacing of lines with the lowest one in my opinion is generally not  
bad enough to merit correction. Supposably the idea with the different  
levels is that you fix up the dark highlights and don't worry about  
the light ones, but I'm used to achieving totally unhighlighted text  
and can't get into some kind of murky, undefined, halfway vibe. And  
besides, if a line doesn't really need adjustment, as the lightly  
highlighted ones generally don't, then I don't see the point in  
highlighting them in any way. So as a consequence of this I've simply  
stopped using the highlighting at all and keep it turned off - which  
is a shame, because the highlighting was always a big help with  
spotting and correcting undesirably spaced lines.

Does anybody know a way to obtain something more similar to  
PageMaker's simpler, one-level-only highlighting mode?

Thanks,

Roy McCoy
Rotterdam, NL

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