Strange Highlights over text
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April 29, 2015 at 8:38 pm #75062Ramin DoostanMember
Hello!
As you can see in the link below, it’s very strange. I’m positive this happened when pressed a shortcut key by mistake, but for the life of me I can’t undo this. I’ve looked everywhere in the settings and the menus and can’t find anything…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0iovl0ubsomljbk/Highlighted%20text.png?dl=0
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April 29, 2015 at 8:54 pm #75063Caspian IeversMember
Preferences / Compsition / uncheck Custom Tracking/Kerning
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April 29, 2015 at 9:01 pm #75064Ramin DoostanMember
THanks Caspian, but that option is already unchecked.
Noticed that when I open old files everything is ok, must be something affecting recent documents.
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April 29, 2015 at 9:09 pm #75065David BlatnerKeymaster
Maybe something here will help?
https://creativepro.com/field-guide-to-composition-highlighting.php -
April 29, 2015 at 9:51 pm #75066Ramin DoostanMember
Thanks David,
That was an interesting read. However my problem is strange because it happens to every text inside this document, regardless of font, characters or glyphs. I have unchecked every option in the preferences > Composition without any luck.
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April 30, 2015 at 5:10 am #75070David BlatnerKeymaster
Two questions: Are those red lines along the left side of each column supposed to be there? Or are those part of the highlighting problem?
And, what happens if you choose some text and change the font? Does the highlighting go away? If so, then it could just be “the dreaded pinking” of a wrong font. -
April 30, 2015 at 6:34 am #75072Ramin DoostanMember
This is what I see when I export or when I’m in preview mode: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6sb08yf15glgjzt/86-ok.jpg?dl=0
and This is what I see when I’m in normal mode: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4epcbs46uopijp/86.PNG?dl=0No matter what font or language I use for typing, every text is highlighted. And as you tell by the green lines in the 2nd screenshot, the red boxes are not even an object! if I delete the text frame next to it, they’re removed as well.
Also, if I copy any text frame and paste it into a new document the problem goes away. It cannot be dreaded pinking.
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April 30, 2015 at 7:16 am #75073David BlatnerKeymaster
That looks more like some external plug-in, such as something that shows changes (“black-lining” or “redlining” or “track changes”)
Another idea: Have you tried exporting the file as IDML and then opening that IDML file? -
April 30, 2015 at 10:23 am #75080Theunis De JongMember
1. Your styles are marked with a pink background. Almost everything is in the same style.
2. Your paragraphs all have overrides, hence the red line in the margins.
3. All of your text has overrides, hence the red line through the text.You must have downloaded and used Marc Autret’s StyLighter: https://creativepro.com/style-highlighting.php
Run it again and uncheck the options to get rid of it. (Unrelated but: that’s a LOT of local overrides. You may want to look in to using styles properly…)
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April 30, 2015 at 8:28 pm #75095Ramin DoostanMember
Wow, thanks Jongware, that was it.
To answer your question because we’re 2 people working on different parts of the document week in, week out my partner wanted to keep me away from his workflow so he installed the plugin to separate his “territory”. I guess that is the reason for having a lot of overrides… two cooks always spoil the broth!
Also, thanks everyone for their help!
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