Archives for April, 2010
Adobe InDesign CS4 – Converting Flexible Object Styles
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Because the unique attributes in the examples discussed in this chapter aren’t included in the “flexible” object style’s definition, you can’t use the Redefine Style command unless you change some aspect of the attribute that is defined. The good thing about that is you can’t accidentally redefine the style, which might [...]
Adobe Indesign CS4 – Combining Paragraph Styles and Object Styles
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Any individual style is useful, but when styles are combined, they become exponentially more powerful. The one option that’s off by default for every new object style is the same one that adds the greatest amount of increased functionality to a text frame’s object style: the ability to designate a paragraph [...]
Adobe InDesign CS4 – Override Removal
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
When you apply a paragraph style by clicking its name, no overrides are removed. You must either choose Apply YourStyleName, Clear Overrides or Option-click/Alt-click the style name. The Object Style panel, however, is pre-set to remove overrides. By default, the Clear Overrides When Applying Style option is selected in the panel menu, meaning that any [...]
Adobe Indesign CS4 – Differences Between Object Styles and Text Styles
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Beyond their association with objects rather than text, object styles have some other distinct differences in behavior that don’t conform entirely to the conventions of their text style counterparts.
Selective Attribute Inclusion
Like other style dialogs, the Object Style Options dialog contains a left pane with a list of different attribute categories. However, this [...]
Adobe Indesign CS4 – Targeting layers when placing objects
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Adobe InDesign CS4 lets you place objects on different layers. Think of layers as sheets of transparent film that are stacked on top of each other. By using layers, you can create and edit objects on one layer without affecting—or being affected by—objects on other layers. Layers [...]
Adobe Indesign CS4 – Positioning graphics within a frame
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
On the first spread, two of the frames need to be resized for their pictures, or the pictures within them repositioned.
Select page 2 in the page box in the lower-left corner of the document window to navigate to page 2. Press Ctrl+0 (zero) (Windows) or Command+0 (Mac [...]
Adobe Indesign CS4 – Working with graphics
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
To complete the magazine layout, you’ll reposition some graphics at the same time you practice using the selection tools, try out layers, and crop an image. Graphics used in an Adobe InDesign CS4 document are placed inside frames. When working with placed graphics, you should become familiar [...]
Adobe Indesign CS4 – Creating and applying a character style
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Now that you have formatted the text, you are ready to create a character style.
Make sure that the text you formatted is still selected, and choose Type > Character Styles to display the Character Styles panel.
Hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key and click [...]
Adobe Indesign CS4 – Working with styles
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Now you’ll try out styles to see how using them lets you quickly and consistently format text and objects and—more importantly—easily make global changes by simply editing the style. InDesign CS4 contains a variety of styles: paragraph, character, object, table, and cell styles.
A paragraph style includes formatting [...]
Adobe Indesign CS4 – Wrapping text around an object
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
The text in the pull quote is difficult to read because the main story text does not wrap around the text frame, but instead overlaps it. You’ll wrap the main story text around the edges of the pull-quote text frame, so that the text from the main [...]