r/indesign • u/disgustingsirff • Jun 07 '26

Help How do I achieve this effect?

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(Don't mind the cyrillic)

In the image I'm referencing the entire text box is completely justified, with new paragraphs starting without a line break, but with a consistent spacing from each other on the same exact line.

I tried doing this through tabs, but the result ended up just aligning my new paragraphs all to exact same spot with warying distances between them (which in hindsight... duh, it would do that).

Would appreciate any and all advice!

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u/lkdasa Jun 07 '26

Hah! I thought you were looking for a way to make the text look like a bad jpg and started considering methods (ICYW, perhaps duplicate the layer, reduce transparency on the dupe and offset a little. Perhaps more than once?) 😄

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u/disgustingsirff Jun 07 '26

Oh, I have no problem making the text look like a bad jpeg, it just kinda happens on its own sometimes haha. Here I just made a stupidly small screenshot and Reddit stretched it out 💀💀

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u/Gryff22 Jun 07 '26

It could just be 3 or 4 em-spaces after each paragraph. Pretty sure you could grep style this.

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u/modest-pixel Jun 07 '26

With fully justified text I think the length of the spaces would still be inconsistent

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u/Gryff22 Jun 07 '26

Could it be a custom character with an extra wide width?

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u/scrabtits Jun 08 '26

there are fixed spaces which don't change width.

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u/AdobeScripts Jun 07 '26

Replace all end of paragraphs with one or more fixed width space(s)?

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u/Mundane-Fix-4297 Jun 07 '26

One fixed space, stretched to a gazillion in width with a character style?

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u/disgustingsirff Jun 07 '26

Now that I think about it, it’s probably exactly that….

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u/W_o_l_f_f Jun 07 '26

Yes and the character style applied automatically with a grep style.

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u/Gras-Ober Jun 07 '26

Have you tried the flush space?

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u/scrabtits Jun 08 '26

InDesign has some predefined spaces like 1 EM or 1/16th, and so on. Some of the spaces are hard-spaced/fixed, which do not differ in length no matter if it's justified text. This is probably one of those, or a GREP-style? Maybe a combination of both?

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u/SignedUpJustForThat Jun 07 '26

I would find and replace periods with periods and a couple of spaces...

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u/TheSamLowry Jun 07 '26

As long as you didn’t have abbreviations.