We’re pleased to announce the release of new update to V-Justify, the InDesign script that puts you in full control of InDesign’s vertical justification.
New in version 1.5.1 is the ability to justify individual columns, not just all the columns in a given text frame.
This is useful, for instance, if you specifically need to justify one column by expanding it, while justifying another column by reducing the space between paragraphs.
Along with this new feature, there are also plenty of bug fixes to make V-Justify more reliable.
Finally, if you’re the sort of person who prefers to try before you buy, there is now a full demo version of V-Justify available for download. (The demo version will open a copy of your document in InDesign. The text in this duplicate document will be turned into gibberish. The test document is otherwise identical to the original and should give you a good feeling of how the licensed version of V-Justify works.)
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Sean
November 28, 2022 5:21 amThe use cases for this are obvious. I do newspaper design (in 2022, imagine that!). My company decided to go with body copy that doesn’t lock to the baseline so, obviously, we run into performance issues with the native InDesign vertical justify. It’s particularly bad when it comes to a text-heavy page like sports stats or stocks. I’ve given them a scriptUI palette to toggle it and balance columns on selected frames and that seems to serve the purpose.
I haven’t demo’ed this script but I do want to comment that it would be definitely a useful tool in the toolbox for some, particularly if it is faster than vertical align:justify in InDesign as it is now.
Ariel
November 28, 2022 12:08 pmThanks for your comment.
I doubt that V-Justify is *faster* than switching on InDesign’s own vertical justification. But it is more professional in that it gives the user complete control over the spacing, allowing the user to specify which paragraph styles should get the extra space (e.g. subheadings) and which must not be modified (e.g. body text), and what the minimum and maximum values are.
So the end result of a nicely vertically-justified column is achieved much faster and more easily than anything you could do in InDesign.