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I am laying out a monthly magazine. How can I make sure the columns of text in the articles all match in length? There are commonly graphics with text wrap boxes in the columns. The articles are most often on pages with ads on them at the bottom, and so the entire page is not used for the article.
Hi Dorinda,
Well, what I would do to try to get everything to end even along the bottom is to position and size the page graphics accordingly. Of course, your content is really going to dictate how you'll work around that. I'd also make sure you have your baseline grid turned on and try getting familiar with that.
If you click under View > Grids & Guides > Show Baseline Grid, it will show the invisible lines where your text will be forced to sit on. You can change these setting under your Preferences > Grids. Change the Increment Every to what you want your body copy leading to be. In your style sheet, make sure to click Align to Grid.
A little tricky, I hope you get it all. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. Thanks.
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