Baseline grids

Baseline grids are perfect for creating multiple-page layouts that are consistent, professional and appealing. The baseline grid provides you with a series of equally-spaced horizontal guides that make it easy to perfectly cross-align body copy between frames and columns across your whole document.

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The baseline grid is overlaid over your page to help you align text. A baseline grid can be applied to the entire document or individual text frames within it, and will align baselines across linked or completely separate text frames.

The baseline grid's Spacing option overrides the leading value of frame text. Setting the grid spacing to the same size as your body text leading means that your frame text should snap to, and perfectly align with, the baseline grid. The baseline grid is blue by default but can be any color you choose.

You can adjust your Document baseline grid for a baseline grid spanning across a whole page or use a baseline grid that has instead been applied only to an individual text frame or table.

Frame-specific baseline grids are useful for text frames that use a different font sizes (e.g. for caption text, quotes, etc) to the main document's body text, where the frame text will adopt its own independent baseline grid rules and not those of the Document baseline grid.

Toggle Preview Mode Enable To enable the baseline grid:
  1. On the Toggle Preview Mode menu (to the right of the Preview button), select Baseline Grid Settings.
  2. On the context toolbar, tap Enable to activate the baseline grid.
  3. Adjust the position (Start and Relative to) and Spacing of your baseline grid.
Toggle Preview Mode To hide (show) the baseline grid:
To align text to the baseline grid:
  1. Go to the Text panel.
  2. Toggle Baseline Grid on.
Snapping To snap objects to the baseline grid:
To set up an independent text frame baseline grid:
  1. Go to the Text panel.
  2. On the Baseline Grid section, tap the Baseline Grid More arrow.
  3. Toggle Use Independent Baseline Grid on.
  4. Adjust settings as required.
Text panel To ignore the underlying document baseline grid on text frames:
To set up an independent table baseline grid:
To ignore the underlying document baseline grid on tables:

Settings

The following settings can be adjusted from the context toolbar:

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