Learning InDesign CS2

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Learning InDesign CS2

• Lesson 2

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Exercises

• Exercise 12
• Exercise 13
• Exercise 14
• Exercise 15
• Exercise 16
• Exercise 17

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Exercise 12

• Understand Font Types and Families
• Select Fonts and Sizes
• Apply Font Styles
• Work with Text Color
• Install New Fonts
• Check Font Embedding

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Font Families

• A font family is a set of fonts that share basic
  characteristics.
• Examples of font families

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Font Styles

• A font style is a variant of the family.
• Examples
• Times New Roman Regular
• Times New Roman Bold
• Times New Roman Italic
• Times New Roman Bold Italic

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Types of Font Files

• PostScript only for PostScript printers.
• TrueType printer-independent outline font,
  supported by Mac and Windows.
• OpenType
• OpenType TrueType Improved version of TrueType
  with extra features.
• OpenType Type 1 Improved version of PostScript
  with extra features.

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Select Fonts and Sizes

• Select the text and click the button on
  the Control palette to display the Character
  Formatting controls.
• Then choose a different font and size from the
  drop-down lists.

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Select Fonts and Sizes
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Select Font Styles

• Different font families have different styles
  available on the menu.

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Italic vs. Skew

• Skew is false italic.
• Use when there is no Italic style available for
  the chosen font.

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Text Color

• Apply text color from the Color or Swatches
  palettes, the same as with fill and stroke.

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Install New Fonts

• Install fonts from Windows Control Panel.
• Extra fonts are available in the InDesign Setup
  disk set in the Goodies folder.

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Check Font Embedding

• To make sure a font is embeddable, choose File gt
  Preflight and check the Fonts information.

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Exercise 13

• Adjust Text Scale
• Adjust Tracking
• Adjust Kerning

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Adjust Text Scale

• Horizontal scale makes text wider. It does not
  change space between letters.

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Adjust Text Scale

• Vertical scale makes text taller. Different from
  changing the font size because it does not change
  the width at all.

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Adjust Tracking

• Tracking is spacing between character.
• Does not affect width or height of the
  characters.
• Tracking is based upon the widest part of the
  character.

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Adjust Tracking

• Measured in thousandths of an em (width of
  capital M).
• Default tracking is 0.

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Adjust Kerning

• Kerning is the amount of overlap of character
  spacing based on the shapes of individual letters.

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Adjust Kerning

• Set kerning to Metric kerning or Optical kerning
  to allow automatic kerning to take place
• Metric using kerning information built into the
  font for certain letter pairs.
• Optical kerning calculates the kerning to use
  based on the shapes of the letters.

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Exercise 14

• Apply All Caps and Small Caps
• Use Underlines
• Customize Underline Style
• Use Strikethrough

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All Caps and Small Caps
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All Caps and Small Caps

• You can change the amount of reduction for small
  caps (default is 70) in the Preferences dialog
  box.

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Small Caps

• Some OpenType fonts have an All Small Caps
  setting on Control palettes fly-out menu.

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Use Underlines

• Underline button on Control palette (shortcut
  CtrlShiftU).

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Customize Underline Style

• Open fly-out menu for Control palette and choose
  Underline Options.

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Strikethrough

• Generally indicates a deletion.
• Use Control palette or dialog box.

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Exercise 15

• Apply Baseline Shift
• Apply Superscript and Subscript
• Build Fractions
• Apply Alternate Characters
• Work with Ordinals

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Apply Baseline Shift

• Baseline is the default vertical position for the
  bottoms of the characters.

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Baseline Shift

• Up 2 points AltShiftup arrow
• Up 10 points CtrlAltShiftup arrow
• Down 2 points AltShiftdown arrow
• Down 10 points CtrlAltShiftdown arrow

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Superscript

• Combines a positive baseline shift with a font
  reduction
• Use Superscript button on Control palette

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Subscript

• Combines negative baseline shift with a font
  reduction
• Use Subscript button on Control palette

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Build Fractions

• You can manually build fractions using a / sign
  to separate the numbers.
• You can build a fraction by applying superscript
  to the first number and decreasing the font of
  the second number.

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Build Fractions

• Some OpenType fonts have a few common fractions
  built in as glyphs.

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Build Fractions

• Some OpenType fonts have a Fractions option.

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Build Fractions

• Some OpenType fonts have a Denominator option.

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Apply Alternate Characters

• Some OpenType fonts have alternate characters for
  nearly every character. You can use them to add
  variety to your typography.

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Apply Alternate Characters

• Select a typed character and open the Glyphs
  palette. Open the Show list and choose Alternates
  for Selection.

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Apply Alternate Characters

• You can display all characters in the Glyphs
  palette, and then click and hold on a character
  to see its alternates.

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Work with Ordinals

• An ordinal is a suffix following a number, such
  as 2nd or 4th.
• It is common to make ordinals superscript.
• Some OpenType fonts have special styles for
  ordinals built in.

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Exercise 16

• Import Text from Other Programs
• Thread Text Between Frames
• Add New Pages
• Delete Pages
• Start Page 1 on a Verso

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Import Text from Other Programs

• Use File gt Place to place text.

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Import Text from Other Programs

• Mark the Import Options check box, and this
  dialog box will appear when importing

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Thread Text Between Frames

• Each frame has an In port and an Out port. When
  the frame is not linked to any other frame, both
  are blank.

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Thread Text Between Frames

• When there is too much text, the remaining text
  is overset. It is hidden and can be made visible
  by enlarging the frame.

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Thread Text Between Frames

• To thread the overset text into another frame,
  click the Out port to pick up the text thread
  and then click in the frame in which you want the
  text to flow.

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Add Pages

• Use the Pages palette.
• Click the New Page icon at the bottom of the
  Pages palette .
• Hold down Alt as you click the button to open a
  dialog box.

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Add Pages

• Specify a number of pages and the master on which
  it is based
• To delete a page, drag the pages icon to the
  trash can icon in the Pages palette.

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Layout Terminology

• Two pages that face each other are a spread.
• A spread consists of a left-handed page (verso)
  and a right-handed page (recto).

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Start Page 1 on a Verso

• To force page 1 to be a verso
• Change page numbering to start on page 2. To do
  this, open fly-out menu on the Pages palette and
  choose Numbering Section Options.
• Insert a blank page at the beginning, and ignore
  it.

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Start Page 1 on a Verso

• Alternate methodInsert a blank page, then
  select pages 2 and 3 and on the fly-out menu of
  the Pages palette, choose Keep Spread Together.
  Then delete page 1.

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Exercise 17

• Use the Story Editor
• Find and Change Text
• Check Spelling
• Edi the Dictionary
• Use Dynamic Spell-Checking

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Use the Story Editor

• The Story Editor is a text editor window.
• Does not show formatting.
• Choose Edit gt Edit in story Editor, or press
  CtrlY.
• To return to Layout view, choose Edit gt Edit in
  Layout or press CtrlY again.

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Use the Story Editor
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Find and Change Text

• Find/Change finds instances of a text string or
  of formatting, and optionally replaces it with
  other text or formatting.
• Select Edit gt Find/Change.

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Find and Change Formatting

• Click More Options to see the controls for
  finding and changing formatting.
• Click the Format button next to either Find or
  Change .

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Find and Change Formatting

• Specify the formatting elements to change

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Find Special Characters

• Open the menu to select a special character.

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Check Spelling

• Choose Edit gt Spelling gt Check Spelling.
• Make a decision on each potential misspelling
  identified.

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Edit the Dictionary

• Choose Edit gt Spelling gt Dictionary.
• Type a word in the Word box and click Add.
• Select a word and click Remove.

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Check Spelling in Place

• Right-click a red-underlined word to see spelling
  suggestions.