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Specify the grid scaling for full-width Japanese characters in percentage.

Char Aki

Specify the spacing between characters. This value is used for the grid mesh spacing.

Line Aki

Enter a value to specify the grid line spacing. The value used here is the distance between the bottom (or left)

edge of the character embox for the first line to the top (or right) edge of the character embox for the next line.

View frame grids

Frame grids are shown by default.

1. Choose View > Layout View.

2. Choose View > Grids & Guides > Show Frame Grid.

If the frame grid still does not appear, choose File >Document Setup, and make sure that Frame Grid is selected

from theWork Area menu.

Convert text frames and frame grids

In stand-alone documents, you can convert plain text frames into grid frames or frame grids into text frames.

When plain text frames are converted into frame grids, for text that has not had a character style or paragraph

style applied in the story, the frame grid's document defaults are applied. (See

About frame grids in InCopy

documents.)

You cannot apply grid format directly to documents that don’t have frame grids. After converting the text area into

a frame grid, you can apply grid format attributes by applying a predetermined grid format to a frame grid using

text that has not been given a paragraph style. (See Apply grid format to text.)

Note:

Since character attributes are not set for text frames, changing a frame grid with character attributes into a plain

text frame may cause reformatting. For example, when a frame grid with Character Aki set to

1H is converted into

a plain text frame, character spacing becomes 0H, and the characters will be slightly spread out. Since the frame

grid settings are preserved, converting back to a frame grid will display character spacing at the original value of

1H.

Convert a text frame into a frame grid

1. Choose File > Document Setup.

The Document Setup option is dimmed if you’re working with content that is linked to InDesign. For linked

content, change the settings in InDesign.