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Layout and design
Last updated 11/30/2015
If the named grid format you want to use is already saved in another InDesign document, you can import that grid
format into the current document.
When a new frame grid format is created based on an existing frame grid, changes to format attribute options also are
applied to the selected frame grid. If you do not want to modify the selected frame grid format, deselect the frame grid
before showing the Edit Grid Format dialog box.
Named Grid options
Named Grid options appear when you choose Window > Type & Tables > Named Grids.
Grid Name Enter the name of the grid format.
Font Select the font family and font style, and set the default font for the text to be placed in the grid.
Size Specify individual grid sizes.
Vertical and Horizontal Specify the grid scale for full-width Asian characters in %.
Char Aki Specify the spacing between grid cells in the frame grid. This value will be the grid cell size.
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.
Line Align Select an option to specify line alignment for the frame grid. For example, if Align Left/Top is selected, the
beginning of each line for a vertical type frame grid will be aligned with the top edge of the frame grid. (See
Align or
justify text.)
Grid Align Select an option to specify whether to align the text to the embox, ICF box, or roman baseline. See Align
paragraphs to a baseline grid.
Char Align Select an option to specify the method of aligning small characters to larger characters in a line. (See Align
text of different sizes.)
Apply a named grid to a frame
You can apply a custom named grid or the Layout Grid to a frame grid. If you apply the Layout Grid, the same settings
defined in the Layout Grid dialog box are used in the frame grid.
1 Select the frame grid using the Selection tool. You can also use the Type tool to click on the frame and position the
text insertion point or select text.
2 Click on the name of the format to be applied in the Named Grids panel or Control panel.
Applying a grid format causes grid format attributes to be set for text in the frame grid, but grid format attributes
will not be set for text which has been given Character or Paragraph styles, or text which has had settings
individually modified from the Character panel or Paragraph panel.
Note: Priority is given to character style, paragraph style and grid format in that order in the frame grid. Accordingly,
when grid formatting is applied to text that has been given paragraph or character styles, a '+' mark is shown next to
each applied style name. (See
Text formatting precedence.)