The Process Manual

PARAGRAPH SETTINGS Composition Preferences Justified type can be a double-edged sword; the even text edges on the left and right can look really good, but the spaces that are sometimes left within your text can look really bad. InDesign can draw your attention to potential justification problems by highlighting H&J (hyphenation and justification) violations. 1. To turn on this notification, go to Edit > Preferences > Composition (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences (Mac). 2. Under Highlight, click to turn on H&J Violations . 3. Text that has justification problems will be highlighted; the color will differ based on how bad the text will look. Now that you know when your justified text has problems, how do you fix them? Two solutions can be found within the Paragraph palette. One way is to change the Paragraph Composer to look at single lines as opposed to the entire paragraph. This will help take out some of the rivers of white than can flow through justified text. To change the Paragraph Composer, select Adobe Single-line Composer from the Paragraph palette menu. character width. This will look at individual characters and show how the scaling will affect the overall look of the text block. 1. To change your glyph scaling, select Justification from the Paragraph palette menu. 2. Change the maximum and minimum percentages for glyph scaling to reflect the scaling you are willing to accept. In this example, we are setting the minimum character width at 90%, and the maximum width at 110%, with our preferred scaling at 100% 3. Check the Preview box to see what effect this will have on your text. You can set the maximum and minimum scaling to whatever percentage you are willing to accept, knowing that the further away from 100% you get, the more chance that the scaling might be visible to the reader. Glyph scaling The second way to improve composition is to change your glyph scaling or

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