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Digital & Print Templates for InDesign: Why am I seeing a warning on my text frames

Expected behavior

When Frontify detects that text will not fully fit into a fixed-size text frame, it displays a warning icon to alert you that the text is overflowing the allocated boundaries:

If you see this warning, you have a few ways to resolve it depending on whether you are editing a publication or managing the template setup:

  • For creators editing a template: Shorten the copy or remove trailing spaces/breaks so the text fits within the designated frame boundaries.

  • For template designers (Digital templates): You can set the text box behavior to Auto-grow in the template settings. This allows the text frame to expand dynamically as copy changes length.

  • For template designers (Print templates): Because print templates require strict fixed dimensions, auto-grow is not available. Text must fit the allocated space or the frame dimensions must be expanded in the InDesign source file.

Troubleshooting

If you feel that the warning is shown incorrectly (i.e. if the text visually appears to fit into the text frame or if you have just uploaded the file into your Template Library and the original content fit in InDesign), there are a couple of steps you can take to troubleshoot this issue:

  1. Make sure you don't have any additional line breaks added to the end of your text

  2. Make sure you have selected a line height (leading) that will fit into the text frame as well, as this is factored into the calculations
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    1. You can fix this by changing the line height (leading) in InDesign and replacing the template.

    2. You can adjust the line height directly in Frontify.

    3. For digital templates: You can configure the text box to auto-grow (width, height, or both) and set an anchor position directly within Frontify, avoiding the need to edit the source InDesign document.

    4. For print templates: You can adjust the size of the text frame in InDesign and re-import or replace the template.

Specifically for InDesign

If you're using InDesign to create your templates, also check the following:

  1. Make sure you have followed all of the steps in this help article
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  2. Make sure InDesign's auto-tracking feature has not kicked in

    1. This feature automatically kicks in, when you're creating text frames that fit the content really tightly. InDesign will reduce the spacing in your text ever so slightly, to make sure it still fits (even if the text frame is marginally too small). Frontify cannot reproduce this behavior in the browser and will therefore show a warning.
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