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FIGURE 7 Control palette Proxy X Location text box Y Location text box Height text box Width text Scale Y Percentage text box Scale X Percentage text box Shear X Angle text box Rotation

the nine points available on a selected item’s

bounding box Clicking a reference point on

the proxy tells InDesign that you wish to see

the horizontal and vertical locations of that

point of the selected object

When an object is selected, the X value is

the horizontal location—how far it is

across the page—and the Y value is the

vertical location—how far it is down the

page The selected object in Figure 6 has

an X location of 1 inch and a Y location of

1 inch This means that its top left point is

1 inch across the page and 1 inch down

Why the top left point? Because that is

what has been clicked in the proxy, also

shown in Figure 6

QUICKTIP

X and Y location values for circles are determined by the

reference points of the bounding box that is placed around

circles when they are selected

Be sure to note that the text boxes in the

Transform palette are interactive For

example, if you select an object and find

that its X coordinate is 2, you can enter

3 in the X Location text box, press [Enter]

(Win) or [return] (Mac), and the object will be relocated to the new location on the page You can also change the width

or height of a selected object by changing the value in the Width or Height text boxes

QUICKTIP You can perform calculations in the text boxes in the Transform palette For example, you could select an object whose width is three inches By typing 3 - 625 in the

W text box, you can reduce the object’s width to 2.375 inches What a powerful feature!

Using the Control Palette

The Control palette, docked at the top of the document window by default, is similar to the Transform palette It offers the same set-tings and ability to modify a selected object

For example, you can change the width and height of a frame using the Control palette, just as you can with the Transform palette

Unlike the Transform palette, the Control palette offers additional options for frames including changing the frame’s stroke weight and stroke style The options in the Control palette change based on the type

of object selected For example, if a block

of text is selected, the Control palette changes to show all of the type-related options for modifying text, such as changing the font or font size In Figure 7, the Control palette shows options for a graphics frame

QUICKTIP The Info palette displays information about the current docu-ment and selected objects, such as text and graphics frames For example, if you click inside a text frame with the Type Tool, the Info palette displays the number of characters, words, lines, and paragraphs in the frame If you click the same text frame with the Selection Tool, you can find out the size and location of the text frame The Info palette is avail-able only for viewing information You cannot make changes

to a selected object using this palette

FIGURE 7

Control palette Proxy

X Location

text box

Y Location text box

Height text box

Width text

Scale Y Percentage text box

Scale X Percentage text box

Shear X Angle text box

Rotation Angle text box Stroke type

Using the Transform Palette to

Transform Objects

Transform is a term used to describe the

act of moving an object, scaling it, skewing

it, or rotating it You can do all of the above

in the Transform or Control palettes

Figure 8 shows a rectangular frame

posi-tioned between two guides In Figure 9,

the same frame has been rotated 90 degrees—

note the 90° value in the Rotation Angle

text box in the Transform palette Note also

that the object was rotated at its center

point This is because the center reference point has been selected in the proxy as the point of origin for the transformation

Think of the point of origin as the point from where the transformation happens

Whichever reference point is selected on the proxy determines the point of origin for the transformation of the selected object

Figure 10 shows the frame from Figure 8 rotated 90 degrees However, this time, the point of origin for the rotation was set at the lower-left corner of the object

Note how differently the rotation affected the object

Don’t trouble yourself trying to guess ahead of time how the choice of a point of origin in conjunction with a transforma-tion will affect an object Sometimes it will

be easy to foresee how the object will be transformed; sometimes you’ll need to use trial and error The important thing for you

to remember is that the point of origin determines the point where the transfor-mation takes place

FIGURE 8

Rectangle with its center point identified

FIGURE 9

Rectangle rotated 90 degrees at its center point

FIGURE 10

Rectangle rotated 90 degrees at its lower-left corner point

X location

Center reference

point selected

Y location

Rectangle rotated

90 degrees

Object rotated

90 degrees at lower-left point

Rotation Angle text box

X and Y location values remain the same when object is rotated at the center point

Lower-left reference point selected

Rotation angle

Create a new document

1 Start InDesign, click Edit (Win) or InDesign

(Mac) on the menu bar, point to

Preferences, then click Units & Increments.

2 Click the Horizontal list arrow, click Inches,

click the Vertical list arrow, click Inches,

then click OK.

3 Click File on the menu bar, point to New, then

click Document.

4 Type 12 in the Number of Pages text box,

then verify that the Facing Pages check box

is checked.

5 Type 8 in the Width text box, press [Tab],

type 7 in the Height text box, then click the

Landscape orientation button.

TIP Press [Tab] to move your cursor

for-ward from text box to text box in InDesign

dialog boxes Press [Shift][Tab] to move

backward from text box to text box.

6 Type 5 in the Number text box in the Columns

section, then type 25 in the Gutter text box

7 Type 375 in the Top, Bottom, Inside, and

Outside Margin text boxes so that your New

Document dialog box resembles Figure 11.

8 Click OK, then look at the first page of the

doc-ument, which should resemble Figure 12.

9 Save the document as Setup.

You set the Units & Increments preferences to

specify that you will be working with inches for

horizontal and vertical measurements You then

created a new document using the New Document

dialog box You specified the number of pages in

the document, the page size for each page, and the

number of columns on each page.

FIGURE 11

Entering values in the New Document dialog box

FIGURE 12

Identifying basic elements on a page

Columns

Gutters between columns Landscape

Orientation button

Rename and modify the default master page

1. Close all open palettes except for the Toolbox and the Pages palette.

2. Looking at the Pages palette, as shown in Figure 13, note that the document contains the 12 pages that you specified in the New Document dialog box and that the default master page is named A-Master

TIP You may need to resize the Pages palette to see all of the page icons.

3 Click A-Master once to select it, click the Pages palette list arrow, then click Master Options for “A-Master”.

4 Type Chapter Right Page in the Name text

box of the Master Options dialog box, then

type 1 in the Number of Pages text box so

that the dialog box resembles Figure 14.

In this layout design, the chapter title page will always occur on a right-hand page Therefore, this master needs to be only one page.

5 Click OK, then note the changes in the Pages

palette.

The default master page is now listed as a single page with its new title.

You renamed the A-Master master page and rede-fined it as a single page.

FIGURE 13

Identifying icons in the Pages palette

FIGURE 14

Master Options dialog box

12 page icons Default A-Master

master page

Add guides to a master page

1 Double-click A-Chapter Right Page in the

Pages palette, then note that the page menu

at the lower-left corner of the document

win-dow lists A-Chapter Right Page.

A-Chapter Right Page is now the active page

2 Click Window on the menu bar, point to

Object & Layout, then click Transform.

3. If rulers are not visible at the top and left of

the document window, click View on the

menu bar, then click Show Rulers.

4 Click the Selection Tool , position the

pointer over the horizontal ruler, then click

and drag a guide down from the ruler about

1.5 inches down the page, as shown in

Figure 15

TIP As you drag the new guide onto the

page, the value in the Y Location text box in

the Transform palette continually changes to

show the guide’s current location

5. Release the mouse button to position the guide

at approximately 1.5 inches down the page.

6 Type 1.9 in the Y Location text box in the

Transform palette, then press [Enter] (Win)

or [return] (Mac).

The guide jumps to the specific vertical

loca-tion you entered.

7. Drag a second guide down from the

horizon-tal ruler, then release the mouse button when

the Y Location text box in the Transform

palette reads approximately 5.9 in.

(continued)

FIGURE 15

Creating a horizontal guide

Click in ruler and drag downward

Cursor becomes double-sided arrow when creating a guide

Y location of guide

Using the Transform Again commands

InDesign CS2 has incorporated one of the great and classic features of Illustrator: the Transform Again command Now, in InDesign when you execute a transformation once, you can then use the Transform Again command to repeat it This is an extremely useful command, and it's one you should learn how to use The Object/Transform Again submenu features four commands that let you repeat trans-formations Be sure to check out the Transform Sequence Again command This command goes one step beyond Transform Again—it repeats entire sequences So if you make a series of transformations to a selected object, as long as you don't change the selection, the Transform Sequence Again will repeat the entire series of transfor-mations Experiment with these very important—and fun—commands

8. Drag a guide from the vertical ruler on the left side of the document window, then release your mouse when the X Location text box in the Transform palette reads approxi-mately 2 in

9 Click the first horizontal guide you

posi-tioned at 1.9 inches to select it, double-click

the Y Location text box in the Transform palette, type 2, then press [Enter] (Win) or [return] (Mac).

The guide is moved and positioned exactly two inches from the top of the document. TIP Selected guides appear darker blue

in color.

10.Change the location of the horizontal guide positioned approximately at 5.9 inches to

6 inches, then change the location of the vertical guide to 2.5 inches.

As shown in Figure 16, the vertical guide is still selected.

You positioned guides on the master page by dragging them from the horizontal and vertical rulers You used the Transform palette to position them at precise locations.

FIGURE 16

Viewing the master page with three guides

Guides

Selected

guide

Working with Frame-Based Grids

A baseline grid represents the leading for body text in a document Now, with InDesign CS2, every text frame can have its own baseline grid, independent of the document's baseline grid To specify the baseline grid for a text frame, select the text frame, click Object on the menu bar, click Text Frame Options, and then click the Baseline Options tab Here you can customize the baseline grid for the selected text frame You can even apply specific colors for the grid, which will apply to that text frame only In order to see a document's baseline grid or any grids within text frames, click View on the menu bar, point to Grids and Guides, and then click Show Baseline Grid command

Create placeholder

text frames

1 Click the Type Tool , position the cursor

approximately where the vertical guide

inter-sects the top horizontal guide, then click and

drag a text frame to the right margin.

Your screen should resemble Figure 17 The

text box should be approximately 1.25" in

height Your text frame may differ slightly

from the figure; you can adjust it later.

2 Type Chapter X in the text frame, then select

the text.

3. Display the Character palette, set the font to

Garamond or a similar font, set the font size

to 80 pt, then set the leading to 96 pt (if

necessary)

4. Position the Type Tool cursor where the vertical

guide intersects the bottom horizontal guide,

click and drag toward the upper-right corner to

create a text frame, then click the Selection

Tool .

As shown in Figure 18, the second text

frame is selected.

5 Click the Type Tool , click inside the

second text frame, type Chapter title must

be two lines in the text frame, then select

the text.

6. Set the font to Trebuchet MS or a similar font, set

the font size to 32 pt, then set the leading to 33 pt.

7. Click the page to deselect the text so that

your page resembles Figure 19.

You created two text frames which will be used as

placeholders for chapter numbers and chapter

titles in the document.

FIGURE 17

Drawing a text frame

FIGURE 18

Viewing the second text frame

FIGURE 19

Viewing the page with two placeholder text frames

Top and left sides of text frame hidden behind guides

Bottom edge

of text frame

Second text frame

Change the color of guides, margins, and columns

1 Click Edit (Win) or InDesign (Mac) on the menu bar, point to Preferences, then click Guides & Pasteboard.

2 Click the Guides in Back check box to select

it, then click OK.

As shown in Figure 20, the text frame bor-ders are in front of the guides.

3 Click Edit (Win) or InDesign (Mac) on the menu bar, point to Preferences, then click Guides & Pasteboard.

4 In the Color section, click the Margins list arrow, then click Peach.

5 Click the Columns list arrow, click Peach, then click OK.

6 Click the Selection Tool , click the cyan vertical guide to select it, press and hold [Shift], click the top horizontal guide, then click the lower horizontal guide.

All three cyan guides are selected and appear dark blue.

7 Click Layout on the menu bar, then click Ruler Guides.

8 Click the Color list arrow, click Grass Green, then click OK.

9 Click the pasteboard to deselect the guides,

then compare your page to Figure 21.

You changed the color of margins, columns, and guides to improve your ability to distinguish text frames from page guides.

FIGURE 20

Viewing the page with guides in back

FIGURE 21

Changing the colors of guides to better distinguish elements on the page

Text frame borders

are in front of guides

Margins and column guides

in peach Guides in

grass green

Use the Transform palette to

transform text frames

1 Click the Selection Tool (if necessary),

click anywhere in the lower text frame to

select it, click Object on the menu bar, then

click Text Frame Options.

2. In the Vertical Justification section, click the

Align list arrow, click Bottom, then click OK.

3 Using Figure 22 as a guide, drag the top

middle handle of the text frame down to the

top of the text.

4. With the text frame still selected, click the

middle-left reference point on the proxy in the

Transform palette, as shown in Figure 23.

TIP The selected reference point specifies

the point of origin for the transformation.

5 Double-click the Width (W) text box in the

Transform palette, type 3.875, then press

[Enter] (Win) or [return] (Mac).

The width of the selected text frame is

reduced to 3.875 inches Since the point of

origin for the transformation was specified as

the left edge, only the right side of the text

frame moves when the new width is applied.

(continued)

FIGURE 22

Resizing the height of a text frame

FIGURE 23

Selecting a reference point on the proxy

Drag top middle point to resize text frame

Middle-left reference point selected

6 Click the “Chapter X” text frame, then click the center reference point on the proxy in

the Transform palette

7 Click the Transform palette list arrow, then click Rotate 90 ° CW.

The text frame is rotated at its center point

8 Drag the rotated Chapter X text frame to the

same location shown in Figure 24, then adjust the frame size if necessary.

9 Display the Paragraph palette, then click the Align right button .

10 Click Edit on the menu bar, click Deselect All, click the Preview Mode button in

the Toolbox, then press [Tab] to hide all

palettes.

Your page should resemble Figure 25.

You used the Transform palette to change the width of one text frame and to rotate the other.

FIGURE 24

Repositioning the text frame

FIGURE 25

Viewing the page in preview mode