Document Grids

I'm fairly new to ID CS4 Windows, but not to page layout.



I like the document grid feature - makes life much easier lining up horizontally across columns. But I would like to be able to vary the vertical spacing of the grid on different pages.



Is it possible to vary snap-to-grid leading between pages?



To explain the context, I'd sometimes like to have the opening page of a newsletter with slightly bigger type and leading and have denser layout thereafter.
Document Grids
The grids you define in preferences are global, but text frames themselves can have their own custom baseline grids, if that's helpful, and you can use the ''Make Guides'' dialog to create a custom grid on any spread.



Peter
Document Grids
Thanks, Peter.



I particularly like the way I can float text boxes on top of the document grid and end up with vertically-aligned lines of text across separate horizontally-adjacent text boxes. Unless I am missing something, if I revert to using a text-box grid then I will only get this facility within that text box, not in other smaller boxes floated on top, possibly on another layer.



In my previous software I had to do this alignment by hand, which was very tedious. ID with a consistent grid is so much easier to use. But it is too inflexible to offer the variable page layouts I want to use in a single document.



I've put in a feature request that page grids can be applied to master pages and that such grids can be allocated styles so that they can be easily replicated.

Until then, you may benefit from making separate documents for your different grids and combining them in a book.



k

Yes. Separate documents was my escape route, but what a kludge!