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Lesson 3 Navigate Through a Document INDESIGN 1-21

5 Drag the View box in the Navigator palette to

scroll around the page.

6 Click the Zoom Out button five times The magnification is reduced to 125%.

7 Click the Navigator palette list arrow, then click View All Spreads.

The palette now shows all spreads, as shown

in Figure 27.

8. Close Dessert Menu.indd.

You used the Navigator palette to enlarge and reduce the view of the document and to scroll around the document.

FIGURE 27

Navigator palette showing all spreads

Palette list arrow

L E S S O N 4

What You’ll Do

Accessing InDesign Help

Help! At some point we all need it When you do, you can use it to search for answers

to your questions using the InDesign Help command on the Help menu

InDesign Help is an online resource When you click InDesign Help the Adobe Help Center window opens, showing the Adobe InDesign CS2 page, as shown in Figure 28

You can also access help for Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe Photoshop CS2 from this window Click the View Help info for this product list arrow, then choose the product you’d like help with This site con-tains all the information in the user guide, plus keyboard shortcuts and additional information

QUICKTIP The Help menu also contains commands for registering your software, finding out if there are any updates to the software, and viewing the InDesign page of the Adobe Systems Web site The Online Support command brings you to the support page for InDesign where you can read about top issues and access tutorials, forums, and announcements

You can find information quickly by con-ducting a search using keywords To do

so, type your keyword(s) into the text box

at the top of the window, then click Search Searching for information this way is more powerful than using a soft-ware manual

In this lesson, you will access help using

the Adobe Help Center.

USE

INDESIGN HELP

Lesson 4 Use InDesign Help INDESIGN 1-23

FIGURE 28

Adobe Help Center

FIGURE 29

"Guides" search results

The Web site offers you the power to do

much broader searches and to view a number

of different topics at a glance that relate to

your search For example, if you search for

information about guides, you are given a very thorough list of topics relating to guides, as shown in Figure 29 Compare that to using the traditional index in a

book and you will probably agree that this

is a much more comprehensive and effec-tive solution for accessing information

View Help info for this product list arrow

Type keywords into this text box

C H A P T E R S U M M A R Y

CHAPTER SUMMARY

In this chapter, you explored the

work-space in InDesign CS2; you learned how

to open, close and save a document and

how to work with palettes You explored

the Toolbox, viewing the various tools at

your disposal when you work in InDesign

CS2 Experimenting with palettes, you

learned how to group and dock them to

manage your workspace You also learned

how to restore the default arrangement of

palettes by clicking Window on the menu

bar, pointing to Workspace, then clicking

[Default] You learned how to change

document views, how to use the Zoom

and Hand Tools, how to use the Navigator

and Pages palettes, and how to access

InDesign Help

What You Have Learned

• The InDesign CS2 workspace

• How to start InDesign CS2

• How to open and save a document

• The identity of important tools in the Toolbox

• How to group and dock palettes

• How to restore the default workspace

• How to create new windows and change document views

• How to use the Zoom and Hand Tools

• How to use the Navigator palette

• How to use the Pages palette to move between pages in the document

• How to access InDesign Help

Key Terms

Workspace The arrangement of win-dows and palettes that you see on your monitor, where you work on InDesign documents

Pasteboard The blank white area sur-rounding the document

Docking palettes Connecting the bot-tom edge of one palette to the top edge of another palette, so that both move together

Grouping palettes A way to combine multiple palettes in a single palette win-dow to conserve workspace

Spread A set of two document pages that face each other

Toolbox The box that contains all the tools available in InDesign

Pages palette The palette that shows icons for every page in a document; used

to navigate quickly through document pages easily

Navigator palette An excellent resource for viewing and moving through

a document

ADOBE INDESIGN CS2

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WORKING WITH

TEXT

2

chapter

1 Format text

2 Format paragraphs.

3 Create and apply styles.

4 Edit text.

Earth, air, fire, and water—it is said that

these are the four essential elements of

our world A different quartet establishes

itself as the four main elements of any

lay-out: text, color, illustration, and imagery

Take a moment to read them again, and

make a mental note of them We will use

these four elements—text, color,

illustra-tion, and imagery—throughout this book

to reduce the myriad features of InDesign

into four simple categories

In this chapter, we will focus on working

with text Like Proteus, the mythological

figure who could change his outer form at

will, text in a layout can appear in a variety

of ways It is protean—it is versatile It can

be display text—a bold, dramatic headline

at the center of a page, for example, or a miniscule footnote tucked away unobtru-sively It can be flowed as body copy— paragraphs of text; or it can appear as simple page numbers at the lower corner

of a page

You will be pleased to find that InDesign is

a first-rate application for generating and editing text Everything that you want to do—you can do With InDesign, your abil-ity to generate functional, readable text and beautiful typographic artwork is lim-ited only by your imagination

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WORKING WITH

TEXT

chapter

2

Tools You’ll Use

L E S S O N 1

What You’ll Do

Using the Character Palette

The Character palette, shown in Figure 1,

is the command center for modifying text

The Character palette works hand in hand with the Paragraph palette, which is why they are often grouped together Where the Paragraph palette, as its name implies, focuses on manipulating paragraphs or blocks of text, the Character palette focuses

on more specific modifications, such as font, font style, and font size

In addition to these basic modifications, the Character palette offers other controls for manipulating text You use the palette

to modify leading; to track and kern text;

to apply a horizontal scale or a vertical scale to text; to perform a baseline shift; or

to skew text To select text for editing, you can use the methods shown in the table on the next page

Understanding Leading

Leading is the term used to describe the vertical space between lines of text This space is measured from the baseline of one line of text to the baseline of the next line of text As shown in Figure 2, the baseline is the invisible line on which a line of text sits As with font size, leading

is measured in points

In this lesson, you will use the Character

palette and various keyboard commands

to modify text attributes.

FORMAT

TEXT

Pasting text without formatting

A new feature in InDesign CS2 lets you paste text with or without formatting When you copy text, then paste it, it is by default pasted with all of its formatting—its typeface, type style, type size, and any other formatting that has been applied Sometimes, this can be undesirable For example, if you were pasting that text into a text block that had different formatting, then you would then need to edit the pasted text to conform to the new for-matting This is where the new Edit/Paste without Formatting command comes into play:

It strips the copied text of all its original formatting, then reformats it to match the for-matting of the text where it is pasted This is a very useful feature, but perhaps one that is seldom needed Make a mental note of it, because when you need it, it will be very handy

Lesson 1 Format Text INDESIGN 2-5

FIGURE 1

Character palette

FIGURE 2

Examples of leading

Palette list arrow Type Style list arrow Leading list arrow Tracking list arrow Horizontal Scale list arrow Skew text box

Font Family

text box

Font Size text box

Kerning list arrow

Vertical Scale text box

Baseline Shift text box

12 pt text with

14 pt leading

12 pt text with

24 pt leading

12 pt text with

8 pt leading

Leading

Baseline

Making text selections

One line Triple-click any word in the line

One paragraph Click any word in the paragraph

four times Entire story Click any word in the story five times

Entire story [Ctrl][A] (Win) or [A] (Mac)

One character to the right of insertion point [Shift]

One character to the left of insertion point [Shift]

One line up from insertion point [Shift]

One line down from insertion point [Shift]

One word to the right of insertion point [Shift][Ctrl]
(Win) or [Shift]

(Mac) One word to the left of insertion point [Shift][Ctrl](Win) or [Shift]

(Mac) One paragraph above insertion point [Shift][Ctrl](Win) or [Shift]

(Mac) One paragraph below insertion point [Shift][Ctrl](Win) or [Shift]

(Mac)

INDESIGN 2-6 Working with Text

Scaling Text Horizontally and

Vertically

When you format text, your most basic

choice is which font you want to use and at

what size you want to use it Once you’ve

chosen a font and a font size, you can

fur-ther manipulate the appearance of the text

with a horizontal or vertical scale

In the Character palette, horizontal and

vertical scales are expressed as percentages

By default, text is generated at a 100%

hor-izontal and 100% vertical scale, meaning

that the text is not scaled at all Decreasing

the horizontal scale only, for example,

maintains the height of the characters but

decreases the width—on the horizontal

axis Conversely, increasing only the

hori-zontal scale again maintains the height but

increases the width of the characters on the horizontal axis Figure 3 shows four exam-ples of horizontal and vertical scales

Kerning and Tracking Text

Though your computer is a magnificent instrument for generating text in myriad fonts and font sizes, you will often want to manipulate the appearance of text after you have created it—especially if you have the meticulous eye of a designer Kerning is a long-standing process of increasing or decreasing space between a pair of charac-ters Tracking is more global Like kerning, tracking affects the spaces between letters, but it is applied globally to an entire word

or paragraph

Kerning and tracking are standard features

in most word processing applications, but they are more about typography than word processing—that is, they are used for set-ting text in a way that is pleasing to the eye Spacing problems with text are usu-ally more prominent with large size head-lines than with smaller body copy—this

is why many designers will spend great amounts of time tracking and kerning a headline Figures 4 and 5 show examples of kerning and tracking applied to a headline Note, though, that kerning and tracking are also used often on body copy as a sim-ple solution for fitting text within an allot-ted space

FIGURE 3

Scaling text horizontally and vertically

FIGURE 4

Kerning text

FIGURE 5

Tracking text Without kerning,

some letters are spaced further apart

After Kerning, all letters are evenly spaced

Without kerning, some letters are very close

Kerned text with

no tracking

Tracked text with greater space between characters

Lesson 1 Format Text INDESIGN 2-7

InDesign measures both kerning and

track-ing in increments of 1/1000 em, a unit of

measure that is determined by the current

type size In a 6-point font, 1 em equals

6 points; in a 12-point font, 1 em equals

12 points It’s good to know this, but you

don’t need to have this information in mind

when kerning and tracking text Just

remember that the increments are small

enough to provide you with the specificity

that you desire for creating eye-pleasing text

Creating Superscript

Characters

You are already familiar with superscript

characters, even if you don’t know them by

that term When you see a footnote in a

book or document, the superscripted

char-acter is the footnote itself, the small

num-ber positioned to the upper-right of a word

Figure 6 shows a superscripted character

The only tricky thing about applying a superscript is remembering how to do it

The Superscript command, as shown in Figure 7, is listed in the Character palette menu Wait—there’s one more tricky thing you need to remember about superscripts

If, for example, you select a 12-point charac-ter and then apply the Superscript com-mand, by definition the character will be smaller in size However, its point size will still be identified in the Character palette as

12 points

Creating Subscript Characters

The Character palette menu also offers a command for Subscript You can think of Subscript as the opposite of Superscript

Instead of raising the baseline of the selected text, the Subscript positions the text below its original baseline As with

Superscript, the Subscript command makes the selected text appear smaller

Of the two, Subscript is used less often Though it is seldom used for footnotes, many designers use Subscript for trade-marks and register trade-marks

Underlining Text

InDesign offers many different options, commands, and dialog boxes for creating rules—horizontal, vertical, or diagonal lines—and for underlining text That said, when you want simply to underline selected text, the most basic method is to use the Underline command in the Character palette’s menu With this com-mand, the weight of the underline is deter-mined by the point size of the selected text The greater the point size, the greater the weight of the line

FIGURE 6

Identifying a superscripted character

FIGURE 7

Locating the Superscript command

Superscripted character

Superscript Command

INDESIGN 2-8 Working with Text

Modify text attributes

1 Open ID 2-1.indd, then save it as Min-Pin Intro.

2 Click Edit (Win) or InDesign (Mac) on the menu bar,

point to Preferences, then click Units & Increments.

3. In the Keyboard Increments section, change

the Size/Leading value to 1 pt (if necessary),

as shown in Figure 8.

4 Click OK, click the Type Tool , then

double-click the word Introducing at the top of the page.

5 Triple-click Introducing to select the entire line.

6 In the Character palette, click the Font Family list

arrow, click Impact, click the Font Size list arrow,

then click 48 pt, and verify that the Leading text

box contains 57.6 pt, as shown in Figure 9.

TIP You can set the font list in the Character

palette to show only font names or font

names and samples of each font If this

fea-ture is off, you can turn it back on in the Type

screen of the Preferences dialog box Select

Font Preview size, then select a display size

7 Press and hold [Shift][Ctrl] (Win) or

[Shift] (Mac), then press [<] ten times.

The point size is reduced by one point size

every time you press [<].

8 Press and hold [Shift][Ctrl] (Win) or

[Shift] (Mac), then press [>] two times.

The point size is increased by two points.

9 Triple-click by on the second line, change

the font to Garamond or a similar font, click

the Type Style list arrow, click Italic, click

the Font Size list arrow, then click 18 pt.

TIP If the Garamond font is not available to

you, use a similar font.

10 Click the Selection Tool , then note that

the text frame is highlighted, as shown in

Figure 10.

FIGURE 8

Units & Increments section of the Preferences dialog box

FIGURE 9

Character palette

Font Family list arrow Font Size

list arrow

Size/Leading text box