Type Tips
InDesign-Preferences–Type: Type Options – Font Preview Size Drag and Drop Text Editing – Enable in Layout View Paste without Formatting Paste in Place Customize Character, Paragraph and Table Control Panel Scroll through font choices Master Text Frames Flow text: Semiautomatically, press OPTION (ALT on PC) Automatically, press SHIFT Glyphs Panel
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Paragraph Panel Menu items: Adobe Paragraph Composer Adobe Single-line Composer Justification Hyphenation Paragraph Rules Bullets and Numbering Align Away from/Toward Spine Styles: Table styles Quick-apply styles, CMD-RETURN (CTRL-RETURN on PC) Nested Styles Next Style
Web Resources
Extensis: Best Practices for Managing Fonts in Mac OS X: http://dl.extensis.com/downloads/SC/EN/P/Fonts_Best_Practices_in_OSX.pdf Nuance Consulting LLC: http://www.nuanceconsult.com/indesign.html
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Open Type Fonts by Noha Edell: http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/sydney/notes/2007/08_28/08_28_notes.php Tables by Noha Edell: http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/washingtondc/notes/2007/09_18/09_18_notes.php
OpenType
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Adobe has converted the entire Adobe Type Library into this format, o ering you thousands of OpenType fonts from which to choose. Cross Platform The OpenType® font format was developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft to work on both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
Tables
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More than 65,000 Possible Glyphs Per Font A single font le may contain many nonstandard glyphs, such as old-style gures, true small capitals, fractions, swashes, superiors, inferiors, titling letters, contextual and stylistic alternates, and a full range of ligatures. Expanded Character Sets and Layout Capabilities OpenType fonts can include an expanded character set and layout features, providing more precise typographic control. OpenType fonts can be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts. Multi-Language Support Based on Unicode, an international multi-byte character encoding that covers virtually all of the world’s languages, OpenType fonts make multilingual typography easier by including multiple language character sets in one font.
Where there is information to be managed on a page, there is potential for a table. Don’t limit your imagination. This entire handout could easily be set up as a table. Take the time to become familiar with Table features available in InDesign CS3, and you’ll discover countless uses and new ways to extend creativity. Customize Inline Graphics as Anchored Objects Control positioning of a graphic or shape by converting it to an Anchored Object so that it works “outside the box”. Embed a Table within a Table Complex tables or design elements can be worked on as separate tables and then combined into a single table to simplify the process or share the workload. Create Table and Cell Styles Use Table Styles and Cell Styles to quickly apply and update formatting of similar tables throughout a document. The styles can be loaded into other InDesign documents to maintain consistency across multiple projects. Import from Word and Excel Maintain links with spreadsheets imported from Word and Excel so that edits in the original document can be updated in the Links panel. Apply Table and Cell Styles to simplify the formatting process.
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InDesign Magazine Tips of the Week
Right Align Tab with Leader You know you can type Shift-Tab to create a right-indent tab (or choose Right Indent Tab from the Type>Insert Special Character menu). But how do you apply a tab leader (like dots) to it? Can’t do it in CS, but you can in CS2: Just apply a tab leader to the last tab stop in that paragraph. If there isn’t already a tab stop, then add one anywhere in the paragraph and apply a leader to it. The right-indent tab always uses the leader from the last tab stop. Navigate the Control Palette When you use the Control Palette, you don’t need to open as many palettes. To jump easily to the first field in the Control palette, press Command/Ctrl-6. From the first field, use Shift-Tab to highlight the Reference Point box (or previous field). Use the arrow keys to highlight a specific Reference Point and press the Enter key to select. -- Erica Gamet, from InDesign Magazine
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Select a Table’s Text or Cell To select a cell within a table, click the cell with the Text tool and press the Esc key. This will select the cell. To place the text cursor in the cell, press the Esc key again. -- John Feld Aligning Decimals in a Table How on Earth are you going to align the decimal points in that column of numbers in your table? No problem. Just select the whole column (choose the Type tool and click over the top of the column when you see the bold down-arrow cursor), open the Tabs palette (Window > Tabs), select the Decimal Tab Stop in the palette, and click in the palette’s ruler where you want the decimals to be aligned. The cool thing is that this works without you typing a tab character into each cell! --David Blatner
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