FIGURE 47New Object Style dialog box FIGURE 48 Formatting a fill for an object style L E S S O N 5 What You’ll Do WORK WITH Working With Object Styles The new Object Style dialog box,
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Apply nested styles
1 Click the Type Tool if necessary, click to
the immediate right of the colon after the
word Wrath, click Type on the menu bar,
point to Insert Special Character, then click
End Nested Style Here.
TIP Enlarge your document view if
necessary
The special character is invisible, so you
won’t see any change to the text.
2. Using the same method, insert the End
Nested Style Here special character after the
colons in items 2–4.
3 Double-click Body Copy in the Paragraph
Styles palette, then click the Preview check
box in the bottom-left corner.
4 Click Drop Caps and Nested Styles on the
left, then click New Nested Style.
5 Click the [None] text that is highlighted in the
Nested Styles section, then click Number.
6 Click the word Words, then type a period (.)
to replace Words, so that your dialog box
resembles Figure 45.
The Number character style will be applied
through the first period in each entry
TIP If necessary, move the dialog box to
the side so that you can see the format
changes as they are applied to the text.
(continued)
FIGURE 45
Formatting a nested style
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7 Click New Nested Style, click the [None] list arrow, then click Title.
8 Click the word Words once, then note the
format changes to the text on the page.
TIP The Title character style is applied to the first word only, because the nested style specifies to do so.
9 Click the Words list arrow, click End Nested Style Character, then press [Enter] (Win) or [return] (Mac) to execute the change.
As shown in Figure 46, the Title character style is applied to all the words up to the inserted special character End Nested Style Here.
10 Click OK, save your work, then close
Nested Styles.
You applied two character styles to four para-graphs simultaneously by using nested styles.
FIGURE 46
Formatting a nested style through to the first colon
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New Object Style dialog box
FIGURE 48
Formatting a fill for an object style
L E S S O N 5
What You’ll Do
WORK WITH
Working With Object Styles
The new Object Style dialog box, shown in Figure 47, allows you to specify a variety of formatting choices for graphics frames and text frames; they are very similar to character and paragraph styles
The New Object Style dialog box is straightforward, intuitive, and easy to incorporate into your day-to-day work with InDesign First, you create and name a new style Then, you specify formats for that style using the categories listed on the left
Let’s say you are designing a layout for a book and you plan to have a large color bar running along the edge of the book, like the gold columns used for the exercises in this book With object styles, you can spec-ify the formats for that color bar—the fill and stroke color, the transparency, a drop shadow etc.—directly in the New Object Style dialog box
In Figure 48, a style called Sidebar has been created Note that on the left, Fill has been selected The right side of the
In this lesson, you’ll use the new Object
Styles palette and the New Object Style
dialog box to quickly format and apply
styles to graphics frames and text frames.
Formating categories
Fill category selected Swatch list from Swatches palette
OBJECT SYLES
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dialog box shows all of the options for
the Fill and Stroke that you want to
specify for the style In this case, a
swatch named Gold has been selected for
the fill, and it will fill the object as an
80% tint Black has been chosen as the
stroke color
Figure 49 shows Drop Shadow
specifica-tions for the same style Note that the
shadow color is specified as a dark blue
These are just some of the many formats
that you can specify in the New Object Style
dialog box And don’t make the mistake that
they are used only for design elements like
drop shadows or color bars Object Styles are useful for the most basic tasks
For example, let’s say you were doing a lay-out for a book that featured 3-column text on the left pages and 2-column text on the right pages As shown in Figure 50, you can click the Text Frame General Options category and simply enter the number of columns you want for a given style Create one style for a 3-column text frame and another for a 2-column text frame That’s it You won’t need to specify those formats again, not even
if your book is a thousand pages You’ll sim-ply make a text frame and click whichever of the two styles you want to apply
Applying and Editing Object Styles
Once you’ve created an object style, the named style is listed in the Object Styles palette, shown in Figure 51 Select an object on the page—a text frame, a graphics frame, or a shape that you cre-ated with the Pen tool—then click the object style in the palette that you want
to use All of the formatting that is speci-fied as the style will be applied to the selected object
The power of object styles is not limited to applying them to objects In many ways, they are even more powerful when you
FIGURE 49
Formatting a drop shadow for an object style
Drop Shadow
& Feather
category
selected
Drop Shadow options from Drop Shadow dialog box
FIGURE 50
Formatting a text frame for an object style
Text Frame General Options category selected
Formatting options from Text Frame Options dialog box
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be easier Simply double-click the style in
the Object Styles palette that you want to
edit This will open the New Object Style
dialog box, where you can make as many
changes to the style as you like It’s when
you click that OK button that the magic
happens: With that one click, every object
in your document that uses that object
style will update to reflect the changes you made
Using that gold sidebar as an example again, imagine that you have a book—like this book—that has hundreds of pages with a gold sidebar formatted with an object style Let’s say that you are told that the layout must change and the gold
sidebars must change to light blue You can simply edit the object style—change its fill to light blue—and hundreds of pages will update and change to light blue Now, imagine the same scenario, then imagine that you didn’t use an object style
to format those hundreds and hundreds of gold sidebars
FIGURE 51
Object Styles Palette
Object styles
Palette list arrow
Create new style
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Format design elements as
an object style
1. Create a new letter-sized document using default document settings, then save it as
Introducing Object Styles.
2. Create a new CMYK Swatch in the Swatches
palette that is named Gold, specify its colors as C=11, M=0, Y=80, K=11, then click OK.
TIP All the named swatches that you create and add to the Swatches palette will be avail-able to be used as part of an object style.
3 Click Window on the menu bar, then click Object Styles.
The Object Styles palette opens.
4 Click the Object Styles palette list arrow, then click New Object Style.
The New Object Style dialog box opens.
5 Type Sidebar in the Style Name text box, then click Fill in the left column.
6 In the Fill section on the right, click Gold from
the swatches list, drag the Tint Slider to 60%,
then click the Black Stroke icon.
Note that the Stroke category is now selected in the left column.
7. Format the stroke as 3 pt Black, then click
Drop Shadow & Feather in the left column.
8 Click the check box beside Drop Shadow in
the section on the right to activate the drop shadow, change its color to the Royal blue swatch (C=100, M=90, Y=10, K=0), then compare your dialog box to Figure 52.
9 Click OK, then save your work.
A style named Sidebar is listed in the Object Styles palette.
You created a new object style, then specified its Fill color tint percentage, Stroke color, and Drop Shadow.
FIGURE 52
Formatting the drop shadow component of the Sidebar object style
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FIGURE 53
Modifying an object that has been formatted with an object style + sign beside object
style name indicates that the object has been modified from the style it is based upon.
Apply an object style
1 Click None in the Object Styles palette, then
click the Default Fill and Stroke icon in the
Tools palette.
2 Click the Rectangle Tool, then draw a
rec-tangle anywhere on the page.
3 Click Sidebar in the Object Styles palette.
The style that you created is applied.
4. Note that the Tint value in the Swatches
palette reads 60—the tint that you specified
in the object style.
5 Drag the Tint slider to 100.
As shown in Figure 53, the rectangle’s fill
changes to 100% gold and a + sign appears
beside the style name in the Object Styles palette,
indicating that the style has been modified.
6. Create a new rectangle on the page, then
click Sidebar in the Object Styles palette.
The new rectangle is filled with 60% Gold, the
format that was specified in the object style.
7. Delete both rectangles, then save your work.
You applied a style to a frame, then modified the
fill color in the frame You then created a new
frame, noting that the style was applied as it was
formatted in the New Object Style dialog box.
Format text frame options as
an object style
1 Click the Object Styles palette list arrow,
then click New Object Style.
The New Object Style dialog box opens.
2 Type 4 Column in the Style Name text box,
then click Text Frame General Options in
the left column.
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3. Uncheck all the other boxes in the left col-umn so that only Text Frame General options
is checked and selected.
You do not want to apply any of the other types of formatting to this object style; we are interested only in specifying the number
of columns.
4 In the Column section on the right, type 4 in the Number text box, then click OK.
5. Create a new object style, then name it
2 Column.
6. Uncheck all the boxes in the left column except Text Frame General Options, click
Text Frame General Options, specify the number of columns as 2, then click OK.
As shown in Figure 54, the two new styles that you created are listed in the Object Styles palette.
7 Click [Basic Text Frame] in the Object Styles palette, click the Type tool, then draw a large
text frame on the page.
8 Click the Selection Tool, then click
2 Column in the Object Styles palette.
9 Click 4 Column in the Object Styles palette.
10 Double-click 4 Column in the Object Styles palette, change its name to 3 Column, change the number value to 3, then click OK.
As shown in Figure 55, both the text frame and the Object Styles palette are updated with the changes.
11.Save your work, then close the document.
You formatted text frame options for two object styles, then applied each to a text frame You then modified a style and noted how the text frame on the page automatically updated to reflect the changes.
FIGURE 54
Viewing two styles in the Object Styles palette
Two new styles
FIGURE 55
Viewing modifications to an object style and the object to which it was applied
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CHAPTER SUMMARY
In this chapter, you explored some of the
advanced features of InDesign You
started with the Pathfinder palette, where
you used a number of pathfinders such as
add, subtract, minus front/back, and
intersect to create new objects and
mod-ify existing objects quickly and efficiently
You moved on to the Stroke Styles
palette Here, you furthered your
knowl-edge of strokes by learning how to create
and modify dashed, dotted, and striped
strokes You used your understanding of
spot colors and the Swatches palette to
learn how to use the Mixed Ink features of
InDesign You created a mixed ink swatch
and a mixed ink group, and learned how
to edit mixed ink groups Finally, you
worked with two types of styles: nested
styles and object styles With nested
styles, you explored InDesign’s powerful
ability to apply multiple styles to a single
block of text With object styles, you
explored one of the new InDesign CS2
features: the ability to name and save
for-matting choices that you can then apply
to text frames and graphics frames
What You Have Learned
• How to use the Pathfinder palette
• How to create a dashed stroke style
• How to create a dotted stroke style
• How to create a striped stroke style
• About the need for mixed inks
• How to create a mixed ink swatch
• How to create a mixed ink group
• How to edit mixed ink groups
• About nested styles
• How to apply nested styles
• About the new object styles feature
• How to apply object styles
Key Terms
Dashed strokes Strokes that consist
of a series of dashes and gaps
Dotted strokes Strokes that consist of
a series of dots and gaps
Striped strokes Strokes that consist
of a two or more horizontal strokes with gaps in between
Mixed ink InDesign uses this term to refer to swatches that are created by mix-ing a spot ink with a process ink or another spot ink Mixed ink swatches must include at least one spot ink
A mixed ink swatch is most often created from one process and one spot ink
Mixed ink group An array of mixed ink swatches that is generated simultaneously Nested styles Paragraph styles in which two or more character styles are
“nested” within the paragraph style
Object Styles Like paragraph styles or character styles, named and saved format-ting attributes, but are applied to objects such as graphics frames or text frames
Parent swatch When a mixed ink group is generated, a parent swatch is generated and appears in the Swatches palette The parent swatch is named with whatever name you entered when creat-ing the mixed ink group
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docu-ment—to print it, to export it, or to send
it to a printer or service bureau—you will
be impressed with the many
well-thought-out options that InDesign makes available
for this critical phase of production
InDesign comes complete with all the
industry-standard printer’s marks that you
would expect from a professional layout
application Crop marks, bleed marks,
color bars, and registration marks are all
available in the Print dialog box
Additionally, you can create bleed and slug
areas in the Document Setup dialog box,
which positions a handy guide for laying
out these important areas
The Ink Manager makes it easy to specify
how the document will color separate and
allows you to convert spot inks to process
inks with a simple click of the mouse The
Separations Preview palette is a great
resource for the designer and the print professional to see at a glance how a docu-ment will color separate and to inspect each plate quickly
If the document is going to be shipped to a printer or service bureau, the Preflight and Package commands automate these all-important steps in the production process
Rather than print, you might want to export a document You’ll find that InDesign offers all of the file formats that you need and expect Export a document
as a PDF, which opens easily in Adobe Acrobat You can export a selected item—
or the whole layout—as a JPEG image, handy for Web viewing And if you want to manipulate a layout in Photoshop or Illustrator, choose the EPS format in the Export dialog box
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