This has always been a problem for us to align/justify 1 text box with two columns of text so they have a nice neat bottom. It is not a problem when you just have text in both columns. It is not a problem if you have inline (embedded) pictures/graphics in the column. Everything aligns at the bottom with JUSTIFY just fine.
However when you have a picture that is NOT inline/embedded, the columns NOT justify. If you have a picture that spills over partially over the 2 columns (and you cannot imbed it of course) in the text box and use runaround to direct the text to the right of the picture, it will NOT justify. If you take off the runaround, your copy goes right over the graphic and you would have to manually move the copy off the box. And you get the same result if you change the 1 box with 2 columns to 2 separate columns.
So, what is the solution? How does one make their work look professional as you see in magazines. I am quite sure the problem is the picture box and the fact that it is larger than the column width. On small projects one can simply cheat by putting in leading or varying the space after, but this is to be a very large, 5-year project and we don't have the time or budget to fiddle around with the text.
I have played around with baseline grid—but don't really understand it despite the fact that I changed values around this way and that. And not sure this is something that works with oversized graphics anyway. It works fine with straight copy.
Is this problem something that is fixed in Quark 7? We are still at 6.5
Thanks for any help, suggestions.
However when you have a picture that is NOT inline/embedded, the columns NOT justify. If you have a picture that spills over partially over the 2 columns (and you cannot imbed it of course) in the text box and use runaround to direct the text to the right of the picture, it will NOT justify. If you take off the runaround, your copy goes right over the graphic and you would have to manually move the copy off the box. And you get the same result if you change the 1 box with 2 columns to 2 separate columns.
So, what is the solution? How does one make their work look professional as you see in magazines. I am quite sure the problem is the picture box and the fact that it is larger than the column width. On small projects one can simply cheat by putting in leading or varying the space after, but this is to be a very large, 5-year project and we don't have the time or budget to fiddle around with the text.
I have played around with baseline grid—but don't really understand it despite the fact that I changed values around this way and that. And not sure this is something that works with oversized graphics anyway. It works fine with straight copy.
Is this problem something that is fixed in Quark 7? We are still at 6.5
Thanks for any help, suggestions.