Notes:
The view mode won't automatically update after you make changes. You might need to click "Refresh previews" at the bottom left of your screen to see your latest changes.
Certain text features from InDesign aren't supported (see here).
Paragraph shading is supported in edit mode, but multi-line text wrapping and justified text can cause the background highlight to behave differently than in InDesign.
The edit mode for Frontify's Digital & Print Templates reproduces the settings from InDesign in a browser-based WYSIWYG editor. There are many factors that influence the look of your text in this editor. In order to ensure that it matches the final output (which you can see in the view mode), follow these steps when creating your templates with InDesign.
Make sure all of the relevant fonts are included in the InDesign package and that you're only using static fonts:
Make sure you're using paragraph/character styles and all manual overrides have been cleared:
You can use InDesign's "Style Override Highlighter" to check for any manual overrides:
Make sure hyphenation is turned off on all of your paragraph styles (the browser hyphenates differently than InDesign and therefore the required space for text might not match):
Make sure to use the "Adobe Single-line Composer" (resp. Adobe World-Ready Single-line Composer in case of e.g. Arabic) for all of your paragraph styles (this defines when text is placed on the next line and the single-line composer ensures that line breaks in edit mode match line breaks in the final output/view mode):
Make sure to use metric kerning for all of your paragraph/character styles (edit mode will always use metric kerning, so this avoids any issues with text requiring more space than expected in the final output/view mode):
6. Use Paragraph Shading for text backgrounds
If your template needs a background behind text, configure native Paragraph Shading in your paragraph styles. Keeping Paragraph Rules enabled can cause unexpected overlapping elements.
We support the following paragraph shading attributes (see screenshot):
Color
Tint
Offsets (Top, Bottom, Left, Right) → Defines the padding
Top Edge (Ascent, Baseline, Leading) → Defines where the shading starts
Bottom Edge (Descent, Baseline) → Defines where the shading ends
Width (Text, Column) → Defines whether the shading "hugs" the text ot the column/frame
Additionally, keep these edit-mode behaviors in mind:
Auto-wrapping text: If text wraps onto multiple lines automatically, "Width: Text" behaves as "Width: Column" in edit mode, causing the highlight box to fill the textbox width rather than hugging the wrapped line.
Justified text: Shading can display inconsistently when combined with justified alignment.
Bullet & numbered lists: Paragraph shading is not supported on lists.
Existing templates: If you update an InDesign file to include paragraph shading, re-import or replace the template in Frontify so the shading properties are applied.