Macromedia InDesign - 1.5 User Guide

Adobe InDesign 1.5 User Guide Supplement for Windows and Mac OS

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Contents

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Getting Started

Using Work Area and Layout Enhancements

Working with Text and Type

What’s new in InDesign 1.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

The Adobe InDesign 1.5 package contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Installing Adobe InDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Starting Adobe InDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Registering Adobe InDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Learning Adobe InDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Using Adobe Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 1

Using new palette and tool tip options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Viewing pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

About moved commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

About moved tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

About the enhanced direct-selection tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Using new grid and ruler options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Using the enhanced Pages palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Conﬁguring plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

About converting InDesign 1.0 documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

About converting QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents . . . . 16

Chapter 2

Using general text enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Finding and changing fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Creating type along a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Using new paragraph and character options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using new indent and tab options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

CONTENTS

Drawing and Transforming Objects

Using New Color and Trapping Features

Importing Files and Creating Output

Chapter 3

Using new drawing tools and features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Working with segments and multiple points on a path . . . . . . . 41

Controlling image display quality and performance . . . . . . . . . . 43

Copying attributes between objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using new clipping path options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Distributing or inserting a spacing value between objects . . . . . 47

Using new transformation options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter 4

Using new Swatches palette features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Applying colors by dragging and dropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using colors from imported graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using other new color features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Automatic trapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Comparing Adobe In-RIP Trapping and built-in trapping . . . . . . 56

Trapping a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Chapter 5

Easier ﬁle relinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Replacing ﬁles from the Place dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Checking fonts in imported graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using styles for printing and PDF export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Printing with trapping styles

and reader’s spreads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Printing on Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Index

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Getting Started

elcome to Adobe®InDesignTM 1.5—the future of professional publishing, and

your solution for creating graphicsintensive documents. Whether you are a designer who requires complete control over layout and typography, or a production artist who maintains precise graphics standards, InDesign provides you with the industrial-strength support you need.

What’s new in InDesign 1.5

InDesign 1.5 includes many color, drawing, type, and workﬂow enhancements, and is better integrated with other Adobe professional graphic arts products. New features and enhancements include the following:

New operating system support

with Windows™ 2000 and Mac™ OS 9, now added to the list of supported operating systems.

Path type (text on a path)

you draw, and customize it with various options and effects.

Built-in trapping

wider range of Adobe PostScript™ imagesetters, using a high-quality trapping engine built into InDesign.

Vertical justiﬁcation

along the vertical dimension of a text frame.

Drag-and-drop color

by dragging colors from the Swatches or Color palette.

Trap your documents on a much

Distribute lines of text evenly

Apply color to objects simply

Enjoy compatibility

Flow text along any path

Styles for printing and PDF output

PDF output settings for easy and consistent output. This is especially useful in high-volume, high-precision environments.

Enhanced Pages palette

binding spine, and change page icon sizes and other view options.

New ways to create clipping paths

clipping paths for imported graphics from any alpha channel or path stored with the graphic.

Conﬁgure Plug-ins command

of InDesign and save RAM by disabling plug-ins you don’t use every day. You can enable plug-ins for your next InDesign session, and create sets of enabled plug-ins.

Find Font command

document and in imported EPS or PDF graphics, and replace fonts in your document. Make font changes when you open a document or package a document for output.

Free transform tool

tions by dragging the free transform tool, which is also found in Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator®.

New transformation tool options

transformation, such as rotation, by entering values in a dialog box for that tool.

New options for master pages

override masters with additional options.

View the document’s

Identify and list fonts in your

Apply multiple transforma-

Save printing or

Generate

Streamline your copy

Precisely specify a

Use, display, and

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Eyedropper tool

Copy your choice of ﬁll, stroke, and type attributes between objects using the eyedropper tool, which is also found in Illustrator and Photoshop. You can even sample a color from an imported graphic.

New default CMYK swatches

Quickly apply color

using a basic set of default color swatches.

The Adobe InDesign 1.5 package contents

The Adobe InDesign software package includes the following software and documentation:

The Adobe InDesign 1.5 CD.

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Adobe InDesign User Guide

•

Adobe InDesign 1.5 User Guide Supplement

•

Adobe InDesign Quick Reference Card

•

, updated

for InDesign 1.5.

Registration card.

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The Adobe InDesign 1.5 CD contains everything you need to install and run the InDesign application such as the InDesign installer and PostScript printer driver installers. For a complete listing of all CD contents, see the

Install_ReadMe

Install_ReadMe.doc

(Mac OS) ﬁle on the CD.

(Windows) ﬁle

For information about the software and hardware you need to use InDesign, see the ReadMe ﬁle.

Installing Adobe InDesign

You must install the application from the Adobe InDesign 1.5 CD onto your hard disk; you cannot run the program from the CD. Installation instructions are available in the (Windows) or

Install_ReadMe

Install_ReadMe.doc

(Mac OS) file that is

included on the CD.

Make sure your serial number is accessible before installing the application:

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If you are upgrading from InDesign 1.0, use your

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InDesign 1.0 serial number.

Note:

Many of InDesign’s plug-ins and other components were updated for InDesign 1.5. If you’re upgrading from InDesign 1.0, for best results keep each version in its own folder.

Starting Adobe InDesign

You start InDesign just as you would any software application.

To start Adobe InDesign in Windows:

Choose Start > Programs > Adobe InDesign 1.5.

To start Adobe InDesign in Mac OS:

Open the Adobe InDesign 1.5 folder, and doubleclick the Adobe InDesign 1.5 program icon. (If you installed the program in a folder other than one named Adobe InDesign 1.5, open that folder.)

The Adobe InDesign 1.5 program window appears. You can now open a document or create a new one and start working.

Registering Adobe InDesign

Registering your software helps Adobe offer technical support and inform you about new software developments. Please register your copy by ﬁlling out and returning the warranty registration card included with your software package.

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If you purchased a new copy of InDesign 1.5, you can ﬁnd the serial number on the registration card or CD sleeve.

Getting Started

You can register quickly by using the registration software that appears when you ﬁrst start InDesign. This registration requires that you be connected to the Internet, as it opens the Adobe’s registration Web page. If you do not register when you ﬁrst start the program, InDesign will remind you at intermittent intervals of your choice. In addition, you can choose to register at any time by choosing Help > Online Registration. If you are registering from a location other than the U.S., go to www.adobe.com and click Adobe Worldwide to see the Adobe page for your region.

Learning Adobe InDesign

Adobe provides a variety of options for you to learn InDesign, including printed guides and tutorials, online Help, tool tips, and easy access to Adobe’s home page on the World Wide Web, where you can ﬁnd service, products, and regularly updated tips for using InDesign.

Reader software, included on the

Adobe Acrobat InDesign CD, lets you view PDF ﬁles. Adobe Acrobat 4.0 or Acrobat Reader 4.0 is required to view many of the technical and training documents included on the InDesign CD.

Included reference guides

This

Adobe InDesign 1.5 User Guide Supplement

contains detailed information about new features and changes in InDesign 1.5. Wherever a topic or procedure appears in both the

Guide

and in this supplement, use the information

in this supplement.

Adobe InDesign User

Adobe InDesign User Guide

The

contains detailed information about InDesign tools and commands. It is designed to be used as a reference tool in your everyday work. The cross-platform user guide provides instructions for using InDesign on both the Windows and Mac

OS platforms. The text notes any differences in procedures and commands between platforms.

The user guide and this supplement assume you have a working knowledge of your computer and its operating conventions, including how to use a mouse and standard menus and commands. It also assumes you know how to open, save, and close ﬁles. For help with any of these techniques, please see your Windows or Mac OS documentation.

Adobe InDesign Quick Reference Card

The

contains basic information about the Adobe InDesign tools and palettes, and shortcuts for using them.

Adobe InDesign Script Guide

The

explains how to create scripts using Visual Basic (Windows) and AppleScript (Mac OS) for use with InDesign. Virtually every task you can perform by manipulating InDesign’s tools, menus, palettes, and dialog boxes can be performed by a script. Scripts execute quickly and are capable of getting information and making decisions and calculations based on the information they receive. Scripting is useful for automating repetitive tasks and for creating your own new InDesign features. The

Script Guide

(Scripting.pdf) is included on the

Adobe InDesign

InDesign CD in the Scripting folder in the Adobe Technical Info folder.

The

Adobe InDesign Tagged Text

document lists each InDesign tag and offers procedures and guidelines for using tags efﬁciently. Tags let you import and export both character- and paragraph-level attributes with text-only ﬁles. This document (Tagged Text.pdf) is included on the InDesign CD in the Tagged Text folder in the Adobe Technical Info folder.

Using online Help

Adobe InDesign includes complete documentation in online Help, including all of the information in this user guide supplement, plus keyboard shortcuts, and more. In addition, online Help includes full color illustrations, and more detailed information about some procedures. Also included are tool tips, which help you identify a tool or control in the work area.

When you click the Contents tab in online Help, you’ll see two Help ﬁles: One for InDesign 1.0, and another for InDesign 1.5. However, the Index and Find tabs combine the two ﬁles automatically.

To start online Help:

Choose Help > Help Topics, or press F1 (Windows only).

To identify a tool or control:

Position the pointer over a tool or control and pause. A tool tip appears showing the name and keyboard shortcut (if any) for the item.

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If tool tips don’t appear, the preference for displaying them may be turned off.

To get more descriptive information, look up the item’s name in the online Help index.

To adjust tool tips:

Choose Edit > Preferences > General.

Choose one of the following from the Tool Tips menu in the General Options section, and then click OK:

To turn off tool tips completely, choose None.

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To specify a short delay, choose Normal. This is

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the default setting. With this setting, tool tips don’t appear unless you hold the mouse over a tool for a few moments.

To specify a quick response, choose Fast. This

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can be useful when you are unfamiliar with tool names or keyboard shortcuts.

Note:

Tool tips are not available in most dialog boxes.

Other resources

Other printed guides that are not included with your InDesign application, as well as Adobe certiﬁcation opportunities, are also available.

Classroom in a Book

series for Adobe graphics and publishing software. This book is developed by experts at Adobe and published by Adobe Press. For information on purchasing

Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book

visit the Adobe Web site at www.adobe.com, or contact your local book distributor.

Serves as the ofﬁcial training

Getting Started

Adobe Print Publishing Guide

Provides in-depth information on successful print production, including topics such as color management, commercial printing, constructing a publication, imaging and prooﬁng, and project management guidelines. For information on purchasing

Print Publishing Guide

, visit the Adobe Web site at

Adobe

www.adobe.com.

The Adobe Certiﬁcation program

Offers users, instructors, and training centers the opportunity to demonstrate their product proﬁciency and promote their software skills as Adobe Certiﬁed Experts, Adobe Certiﬁed Instructors, or Adobe Authorized Learning Providers. Certiﬁcation is available for several different geographical regions. Visit the Partnering with Adobe Web site at http://partners.adobe.com to learn how you can become certiﬁed.

Using Adobe Online

If you have an Internet connection and a Web browser installed on your system, you can use the Adobe Online feature to reach the Adobe Systems home page on the World Wide Web.

When you set up Adobe Online to connect to your Web browser, Adobe can either notify you whenever new information is available or automatically download that information to your hard disk. If you choose not to use Adobe’s automatic download feature, you can still view and download new ﬁles whenever they are available by using the Downloadables command in the Help menu. Adobe Online uses your current Web browser settings to view downloaded Web or PDF pages.

To see Adobe’s home page for your region:

Open Adobe’s U.S. home page at

www.adobe.com.

From the Adobe World Wide menu, choose your geographical region. Adobe’s home page is customized for 25 different geographical regions.

To use Adobe Online:

In InDesign, choose Help > Adobe Online, or click the icon at the top of the toolbox.

Adobe Online provides up-to-the-minute information about services, products, and tips for using InDesign and other Adobe products. You can also download and view the current version of the InDesign Top Issues document containing the latest InDesign technical support solutions. Bookmarks are also included to take you quickly to noteworthy Adobe- and InDesign-related sites. Refreshing Adobe Online updates bookmarks and buttons so you can quickly access the most current information available.

Note:

You must have an Internet connection and an Internet browser installed. Adobe Online will launch your browser using your default Internet conﬁguration.

Do any of the following:

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To make sure you have the latest version of the Adobe Online window and its buttons, as well as the latest bookmarks, click Refresh.

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To specify connection options, click Preferences. General preferences affect how Adobe Online interacts with all Adobe products installed on your system, and Application preferences affect how Adobe Online interacts with InDesign. To see an explanation of each preference option, click Setup and follow the prompts.

Note:

You can also set Adobe Online preferences by

choosing Edit > Preferences > Online Settings.

To see more information about featured online

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information and services related to Adobe InDesign, click a button in the Adobe InDesign section of the Adobe Online window. Any button in the Adobe InDesign section will open a page using your default Web browser settings.

To view Adobe-suggested Web sites related to

•

InDesign and Adobe, click the bookmark button and choose an option from the menu that appears. These bookmarks are automatically updated as new Web sites become available.

To return to InDesign, click Close.

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Accessing Adobe Online through the Help menu

The Help menu includes options to view and download information from Adobe’s Web site. You can view regularly updated troubleshooting documents, corporate news articles, and Web links to helpful sites for both Adobe’s Web site and other companies.

To view and download information from Adobe’s Web site using the Help menu:

1 In InDesign, choose Help > Downloadables.

2 Select a View Option:

• To view only the ﬁles that are new since the last

time you viewed downloadable ﬁles or were notiﬁed of them, select Show Only New Files.

• To view all the ﬁles on Adobe’s Web site that are

currently available for download, select Show All Available Files.

3 Select Download Options:

• To let Adobe Online start the component’s

installer (if available) as soon as the download is complete, select Auto Install Downloaded Components. You can then follow the on-screen directions to install the ﬁles.

• To continue working in InDesign and other

applications while the ﬁle downloads, select Download in Background.

• To have Adobe Online display a message when

the ﬁles have been transferred to your computer, select Notify When Download Complete.

4 To view a list of downloadable ﬁles, open any

category that appears in the list, if available.

5 To see a description of a ﬁle, position the mouse

cursor over a ﬁlename and view its description in the Item Description section.

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6 To see the location where a ﬁle will be installed

if downloaded, select a ﬁle and view its location in the Download Location section. To change the location, click the Folder button ( ).

7 To download files, select one or more ﬁles and

click Download.

8 Click Close.

To view the InDesign Top Issues document:

Choose Help > Top Issues. The ﬁrst time you choose Top Issues, you will be prompted to download the Top Issues document using Adobe Online.

The next time you choose Top Issues, Adobe Acrobat Reader opens and displays the ﬁle.

Note: If Acrobat 4.0 or Acrobat Reader 4.0 is not installed on your system, you can install Acrobat Reader 4.0 from the InDesign CD.

To view Adobe corporate news articles:

1 Choose Help > Adobe Corporate News.

Note: Corporate news articles only appear in this location if you set Adobe Online to automatically download new ﬁles or if you’ve manually downloaded news articles using either Adobe Online or the Downloadables command.

2 Select an article and click View.

3 Click Delete if you want to remove the link from

the Adobe Corporate News list.

4 Click Done.

To view Web links related to Adobe or InDesign:

Do one of the following:

• Choose Help > Adobe Links and select a Web

address from the list.

• Choose Help > InDesign Links and select a Web

address from the list.

Chapter 1: Using Work Area and Layout Enhancements

Adobe InDesign 1.5 includes new features that enhance the work area and make it easier for you to set up documents and work with pages.

Using new palette and tool tip options

InDesign 1.5 gives you additional ﬂexibility in arranging your work area. You can now dock palettes together, change the layout of the toolbox, and make list palette rows more compact.

SELECTING NEW TOOLS InDesign 1.5 adds

several new drawing tools also found in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. For more information about changes to tools and keyboard shortcuts, see the Adobe InDesign

1.5 Quick Reference Card.

When you open a new document, the document window now opens between the toolbox and the default palette positions along the right edge of the screen. In InDesign 1.0, a document window opened as large as the entire screen by default, which sometimes resulted in objects being obscured by palettes.

Changing the toolbox layout

You can change the overall layout of the toolbox to ﬁt your preferred window and palette layout. By default, the toolbox appears as two vertical columns of tools. You can also set it up as a single vertical column or as one horizontal row. However, you can’t rearrange the positions of individual tools in the toolbox.

(N) Pencil

Free transform (E)

(I) Eyedropper

Smooth (N)

Erase (N)

Path type (T)

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To change the toolbox layout:

1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General.

2 Choose one of the following from the Tools

Palette menu in the General Options section, and then click OK:

• To display the toolbox as one narrow vertical

column, choose Single Column.

• To display the toolbox as two columns with a large

ﬁll box and stroke box, choose Double Column. This is the default setting and matches InDesign 1.0.

• To display the toolbox as one narrow horizontal

row, choose Single Row.

You can quickly cycle through toolbox display options by double-clicking the title bar (Windows)

or clicking the zoom box (Mac OS) on the toolbox.

About tool tip enhancements

You can now adjust the amount of time before a tool tip displays to an interval appropriate for your level of experience. For more information about using tool tips, see “Using online Help” on page 5.

You can dock a single palette to one other palette or to a group of palettes. However, you can’t dock a group of palettes unless you dock each of them individually, because docking involves dragging an individual palette’s tab and not the title bar.

To dock palettes:

Drag a palette’s tab to the bottom edge of another palette. When the bottom edge of the other palette is highlighted, release the mouse.

To move a set of docked palettes:

Drag its title bar.

Compacting list palettes

You can save space by compacting rows in palettes that display lists, such as the Layers and Swatches palettes.

To compact a list palette:

Choose Small Palette Rows from the palette menu.

Also, the tool tips for the toolbox are now more precise for tool families hidden under tools that show a small triangle in the bottom right corner. When you hold down the mouse button over such a tool and drag it over a tool on its menu, the tool tip now indicates that you must press Shift plus the single-key shortcut to cycle through to that tool.

Docking palettes

Docking palettes connects the bottom edge of one palette to the top edge of another palette, so that both palettes move together and are shown and hidden together. When you dock palettes, both palettes remain fully visible. In contrast, when you group palettes, only the frontmost palette is visible.

Small Palette Rows off

Small Palette Rows on

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Viewing pages

InDesign 1.5 includes a new pop-up menu that makes it easier to go to a speciﬁc page.

To go to a page using the page menu:

Click the downward facing arrow to the right of the page box, and then choose a page.

About moved commands

The Preferences, Edit Shortcuts, and Color Settings commands, formerly located on the File menu in InDesign 1.0, are now located at the bottom of the Edit menu in InDesign 1.5. Keep the new locations in mind as you refer to the Adobe InDesign User Guide for information about these commands.

About moved tools

InDesign 1.5 adds several new tools (see “Selecting new tools” on page 9). To make the best use of the space in the toolbox, existing tools have been moved or grouped with other tools in the toolbox. For a complete description of the current toolbox, see the Adobe InDesign 1.5 Quick Reference Card.

About the enhanced directselection tool

The direct-selection tool ( ) is enhanced in InDesign 1.5. You can now select segments and multiple points on a path, as in Illustrator and Photoshop. Because of these changes, remember to use the selection tool ( ) as your primary tool for selecting, moving, and copying whole objects. Use the direct-selection tool only when you want to work with a part of a path or with a path nested inside a frame. For more information, see “Working with segments and multiple points on a path” on page 41.

Using new grid and ruler options

You can specify different values for horizontal and vertical grid spacing, and you can position the document and baseline grids in front of or behind page objects. InDesign 1.5 also lets you set the horizontal ruler origin (zero point) in relation to each spread, each page, or each spread at its spine.

Note: If you set the ruler origin at each spread’s binding spine, the origin becomes locked at the spine. You won’t be able to reposition the ruler origin by dragging it from the intersection of the rulers unless you choose another origin option.

To set enhanced document grid features:

1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Grids.

2 To set horizontal grid spacing, in the Horizontal

section of the document Grid section specify a value for Gridline Every, and then specify a value for Subdivisions between each grid line.

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3 To set vertical grid spacing, in the Vertical

section of the document Grid section specify a value for Gridline Every, and then specify a value for Subdivisions between each grid line.

4 Do one of the following and then click OK:

• To put the document and baseline grid behind all

other objects, make sure Grids in Back is selected. This is the default setting, and matches InDesign 1.0.

• To put the document and baseline grid in front

of all other objects, deselect Grids in Back.

You can also choose Guides in Front or Guides

in Back from the context menu that appears when you right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) an empty area of the document window.

To set the scope of the horizontal ruler origin:

1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Units & Increments.

2 In the Ruler Units section, choose one of the

following from the Origin menu:

• To set the ruler origin at the top left corner of

each spread, choose Spread. This is the default setting for InDesign 1.0 and 1.5.

• To set the ruler origin at the top left corner of

each page in each spread, choose Page.

• To set the ruler origin at the binding spine of

each spread, choose Spine.

Using the enhanced Pages palette

The Pages palette includes improvements such as displaying the binding spine for each spread, icon size options, and many more customizable display options.

Binding spine

Changing the Pages palette display

Customize the Pages palette to display page and master icons to match the way you work.

To change the page and spread display:

1 Choose Palette Options from the Pages palette

menu.

You can also change horizontal ruler origin

settings using the context menu that appears when you right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the horizontal ruler.

2 To set the icon size for page icons, choose an

option from the Icon Size menu in the Pages section.

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3 To display page icons in one vertical column, make

sure Show Vertically is selected in the Pages section. To display page icons as a series of horizontal rows (the same as InDesign 1.0), deselect Show Vertically.

Vertical page icon display (left) and horizontal display (right)

4 To set the icon size for master icons, choose an

option from the Icon Size menu in the Master section.

5 To display master icons in one vertical column,

make sure Show Vertically is selected in the Master section. To display master icons as a series of horizontal rows (the same as InDesign 1.0), deselect Show Vertically.

6 In the Palette Layout section, do one of the

following:

• To display the page icon section above the master

icon section, select Pages On Top.

• To display the master icon section above the page

icon section, select Masters On Top.

7 To control how Pages palette sections grow

when you resize the palette, choose one of the following from the Resize menu in the Palette section, and then click OK:

• To resize both the pages and masters sections of

the palette, choose Proportional.

• To maintain the size of the pages section and let

the masters section grow, choose Pages Fixed.

• To maintain the size of the masters section and

let the pages section grow, choose Masters Fixed.

Original size (top left), Proportional resize (top right), Pages Fixed (bottom left), and Masters Fixed (bottom right)

About the Keep Spread Together command

The Set as Island Spread command in InDesign 1.0 has been renamed Keep Spread Together in InDesign 1.5. The command’s function is unchanged, but the new name is easier to understand. Keep this in mind when reading about the Set as Island Spread command in the Adobe InDesign User Guide.

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Controlling spread pagination

You can easily create spreads of more than two pages. However, most documents use two-page spreads exclusively. You can prevent unexpected pagination by making sure your document contains only two-page spreads. The Allow Pages to Shufﬂe command specifies how pages and spreads are redistributed when you add, remove, or arrange pages.

To specify how the document’s pages are distributed when you add, remove, or arrange pages:

In the Pages palette, do one of the following:

• To preserve all two-page spreads and prevent the

creation of spreads with more than two pages, make sure Allow Pages to Shufﬂe is selected on the Pages palette menu. This is the default setting.

• To allow the creation of spreads of more than

two pages and preserve them when you add, remove, or arrange pages, deselect Allow Pages to Shufﬂe on the Pages palette menu. InDesign will preserve spreads of more than two pages while letting two-page spreads repaginate normally.

Using new master options

Masters are enhanced in InDesign 1.5. You can:

• Specify a master preﬁx containing up to four

characters.

• Use new options for viewing master icons in the

Pages palette. For more information, see “Changing the Pages palette display” on page 12.

• Completely detach any master object from its

master. When you change attributes of a master object from a document page, InDesign tracks your changes as local overrides of the master, but any attributes you don’t change continue to update with the master. When you detach the object from the master, none of the object’s attributes update with the master.

For more information about masters, see the Adobe InDesign User Guide.

To detach a master object from its original master:

1 With the selection tool ( ), go to the spread

containing the item (but not to a master page).

2 Hold down Shift+Ctrl (Windows) or

Shift+Command (Mac OS) as you click the master object you want to detach.

Pressing Shift+Ctrl/Command lets you select a master object on a document page.

3 Choose Detach Selection From Master from the

Pages palette menu.

To detach all master objects on the current spread:

1 Go to the spread that contains the master objects

you want to detach from their master (don’t go to the master page).

2 Select Detach All Objects from Master from the

Pages palette menu.

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Conﬁguring plug-ins

InDesign’s standard feature set is actually a collection of plug-ins, or modular software components, connected to a small core application. This modular architecture makes it easy to add or remove features. Use the Conﬁgure Plug-ins command to inspect and customize the set of installed plug-ins. For example, you can:

• Create custom plug-in sets for different tasks or

workgroups.

• Get detailed information about installed plug-ins.

• Isolate plug-ins when troubleshooting

problems.

• Decrease InDesign’s use of system resources by

turning off plug-ins you don’t use every day.

• Organize plug-ins from third-party manufac-

turers (manufacturers other than Adobe).

In the Conﬁgure Plug-ins dialog box, icons identify different kinds of plug-ins:

• Enabled plug-ins ( ) were loaded when you

started the current InDesign session, and will stay loaded until you exit InDesign.

• Adobe ( ) plug-ins are provided by Adobe.

• Required ( ) plug-ins must be present for

InDesign to start.

Note: You can’t edit, rename, or delete the All Plugins, Adobe Plug-ins, or Required Plug-ins sets. To change any of those sets, duplicate it, and then edit the duplicate.

To conﬁgure plug-ins:

1 Choose Help > Conﬁgure Plug-ins (Windows)

or choose Conﬁgure Plug-ins from the Apple menu (Mac OS).

2 Do any of the following, and then click OK:

• To change the active set of plug-ins, choose one

from the Set menu.

• To disable or enable a plug-in, make sure a

custom set is active, and then click to hide or show the check mark at the far left of the plug-in listing.

Note: When you enable or disable plug-ins or choose a different plug-in set, the change doesn’t take effect until you exit InDesign and then start InDesign again.

• To change the plug-ins displayed in the list,

select or deselect any option in the Display section. Changing options in this section affects the list display only, not the actual status of plug-ins.

• To create a new plug-in set from a duplicate of

the active set, click Duplicate, name the set, and then click OK. The set you create becomes the active set.

• To rename the active set of plug-ins, click

Rename, name the set, and then click OK.

• To permanently remove the active set, click

Delete, and then click OK when an alert appears.

• To import a ﬁle of plug-in sets, click Import,

locate and select the ﬁle containing the sets you want to import, and then click OK. If the ﬁle you import contains any sets that have the same name as an existing set, the imported set will be renamed as a copy. The ﬁrst set in the ﬁle you import becomes the active set.

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Note: (Windows only) When importing plug-in sets, if you select Plug-in Manager Import Files from the Files of Type menu in the Open a File dialog box, plug-in set ﬁles will appear only if the ﬁles are named with a ﬁlename extension of .pset.

• To export all custom plug-in sets to one ﬁle, click

Export, go to the folder where you want to store the ﬁle, select Export All Sets, and then click Save. On Windows, plug-in sets are exported with a ﬁlename extension of .pset.

• To see detailed information about a plug-in,

select the plug-in and click Show Info. In addition to viewing information such as a plug-in’s version, you can ﬁnd out if a plug-in depends on other plug-ins. When you’re ﬁnished, click OK to close the Plug-in Information dialog box.

You can also view plug-in details by double-

clicking a plug-in in the list.

About converting InDesign 1.0 documents

Use the Open command to convert InDesign 1.0 documents. Keep the following in mind:

• For best results, save the InDesign 1.5 document

under a different name than the InDesign 1.0 version.

• If you used third-party plug-ins to create an

InDesign 1.0 document, check with the manufacturer to make sure they are installed correctly for and compatible with InDesign 1.5 before you convert the InDesign 1.0 document.

• InDesign 1.0 can’t open InDesign 1.5

documents.

• InDesign 1.5 can’t save documents in InDesign

1.0 format.

About converting QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents

InDesign 1.5’s enhanced feature set supports the conversion of more features from converted QuarkXPress 3.x, 4.x, and PageMaker 6.5x documents. However, because InDesign may implement some features differently, some features will convert more precisely than others. This section describes conversion issues relevant to the new features in InDesign 1.5; for information about other conversion issues see the Adobe InDesign User Guide, and check the support documents at the Adobe Web site (www.adobe.com).

Vertical alignment and justiﬁcation

InDesign converts top, center, and bottom vertical text alignment from QuarkXPress and PageMaker

6.5. In addition, InDesign converts justiﬁed text alignment from QuarkXPress. Keep the following in mind as you convert documents containing text boxes or frames that use vertical alignment options:

• InDesign converts QuarkXPress vertical

alignment from rectangular text areas only. Vertical alignment won’t be converted from nonrectangular text areas, such as a Bezier text box or a rectangular text box using a corner style that creates a non-rectangular text area.

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• Combining a drop cap with a vertically justiﬁed

text block in QuarkXPress makes the drop cap appear too small both in QuarkXPress and when opened in InDesign. QuarkXPress drop caps work correctly with top, center, or bottom alignment, and convert correctly when opened in InDesign.

• The Inter ¶ Max value in QuarkXPress is

converted to the Paragraph Spacing Limit value in InDesign.

For more information about vertical alignment in InDesign, see “Aligning and justifying text vertically” on page 30.

Line styles and paragraph rules

Line styles in PageMaker 6.5x and QuarkXPress (such as Thick-Thin-Thick) convert directly to equivalent line styles in InDesign. However, the Triple line and custom line styles (dashes and dots) from QuarkXPress are converted to solid lines in InDesign.

Shades in paragraph rules from QuarkXPress are converted to paragraph rule tints in InDesign.

QuarkXPress InDesign

Next Box Page Number Next Page Number

Right Margin Tab Right Indent Tab

Indent Here Indent to Here

Path type (text on a path)

InDesign converts QuarkXPress text paths to InDesign path type objects. InDesign converts kerning, tracking, alignment, and indents applied to QuarkXPress text paths. Keep in mind that in QuarkXPress, text path options are in the Modify dialog box for a selected text path; in InDesign, path type options are in the Path Type Options dialog box.

Most InDesign path type options are similarly named to their QuarkXPress equivalents. QuarkXPress text path orientation options are converted to corresponding options in InDesign, as described in the following table.The buttons listed are those in the Text Orientation section of the Text Path tab in the Modify dialog box for a selected text path in QuarkXPress.

Special characters

Special characters converted from QuarkXPress are replaced with their equivalents in InDesign, as described in the following table.

QuarkXPress InDesign

Next Column Column Break

Next Box Frame Break

Page Number Place Holder Auto Page Number

Previous Box Page Number Previous Page Number

QuarkXPress InDesign

Top left button Rainbow

Top right button Skew

Bottom left button 3D Ribbon

Bottom right button Stair Step

For more information about InDesign path type options, see “Creating type along a path” on page 25.

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Using general text enhancements

Adobe InDesign 1.5 includes many new text features that will help you speed document production.

Selecting a single line of text

You can select one line of text by using a keyboard shortcut. This is helpful when you are copyﬁtting, fixing local spacing problems, or adjusting leading. This technique selects a single line between the sides of a column; it doesn’t select a sentence.

It was a particularly dark

night and all the stars and

planets were beginning to

appear. Soon a glittering

tapestry of light emerged

from the darkness.

“ “

Where did all the stars

come from?” Saturn always

wondered. They were truly

amazing, a wonder to

behold.

Single line of text selected using a keyboard shortcut

To select a single line of text:

1 With the type tool ( ), click an insertion point

in the line you want to select.

2 Press Ctrl+Shift+\ (Windows) or

Command+Shift+\ (Mac OS).

It was a particularly dark

night and all the stars and

planets were beginning to

appear. Soon a glittering

tapestry of light emerged

from the darkness.

Where did all the stars

come from?” Saturn always

wondered. They were truly

amazing, a wonder to

behold.

Inserting placeholder text

While you can lay out and thread text frames without any text in them, adding placeholder text can give you a more complete sense of your publication’s design. InDesign 1.5 can add placeholder text that you can easily replace with actual text later.

If you add placeholder text to a frame that’s threaded to other frames, the placeholder text is added starting at the ﬁrst text frame (if all frames are empty) or at the end of the existing text (if text already exists in the threaded frames).

Note: The placeholder text doesn’t represent any particular language. Before you adjust settings that depend on the rules of a speciﬁc language, such as hyphenation, replace the placeholder text with actual text in your document’s ﬁnal language.

To add placeholder text to a text frame:

1 Do one of the following:

• With the selection tool, select one or more text

frames.

• With the type tool, click a text insertion point in

a text frame or in path type.

2 Choose Type > Fill With Placeholder Text.

You can also choose Type > Fill with Placeholder

Text from the context menu that appears when you right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a selected empty text frame or a text frame with a text insertion point active.

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Adding column, frame, and page breaks

InDesign 1.5 signiﬁcantly improves the control you have over how text ﬂows among threaded text frames. You can control column, frame, or page breaks by inserting a special break character anywhere in the text. The special characters are visible when you choose Type > Show Hidden Characters. The new break options are also available in the Keep Options dialog box so that you can make them part of a paragraph style. The following break options are available:

Column break ( ) Flows the text to the next

column in the current text frame. If the frame has only one column, the text goes to the next threaded frame.

Frame break ( ) Flows the text to the next

threaded text frame regardless of the current text frame’s column setup.

Page break ( ) Flows the text to the next page

containing a text frame threaded to the current text frame.

Odd page break ( ) Flows the text to the next odd-

numbered page containing a text frame threaded to the current text frame.

Even page break ( ) Flows the text to the next

even-numbered page containing a text frame threaded to the current text frame.

To create a column, frame, or page break:

1 With the type tool, click an insertion point

where you want the break.

2 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac

OS) the text frame, and on the context menu that appears, choose a break character from the Insert Break Character submenu.

You can also create breaks using the Enter key

on the numeric keypad. For a column break press Enter, for a frame break press Shift+Enter, and for a page break press Ctrl+Enter (Windows) or Command+Enter (Mac OS).

Adding automatic page numbers for story jumps

You can easily maintain the jump lines of stories that continue from or to other pages, such as a line that says “Continued on page 42.” Use a jump line page number to automatically update the number of the page containing a story’s next or previous threaded text frame, so that the number automatically updates as you move or reﬂow the story’s threaded text frames.

In general, you’ll want the jump line page number to be in a separate text frame from the story it tracks. That way the jump line page number remains in position even if the story’s text reﬂows.

Note: If you create a break by changing paragraph settings (such as the Keep options), the break occurs before the paragraph that contains the setting. If you create a break using a special character, the break occurs immediately after the special character.

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Note: If you enter an automatic page number special character into the Find/Change dialog box, jump line page numbers will also be found and subject to change.

he large island of Niphon and wooded region, ﬁfty leagues from Yokohama, lies hidden the ancient city of the dead— the necropolis of Japanese

continued on page 42

Make sure a jump line page number’s text frame overlaps the text frame that contains the story you want it to track.

To add an automatic jump line page number:

1 With the type tool ( ), drag to create a new text

frame above or below an existing text frame that contains the story you want to track.

2 With the selection tool, position the new text

frame so that it overlaps the frame containing the story you want to track.

3 With a text insertion point active in the new text

frame, type text such as “Continued from ” or “Continued on ” as necessary, and then do one of the following:

• To add a “continued from” page number, right-

click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the text frame, and in the context menu that appears, choose Insert Special Character > Previous Page Number.

• To add a “continued to” page number, right-click

(Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the text frame, and in the context menu that appears, choose Insert Special Character > Next Page Number.

Note: If the jump line page number is the same as the current page number, make sure you overlap the text frames of the jump line and the story, and make sure the story is threaded to a text frame on a different page.

4 With the selection tool, hold down Shift as you

select the frames containing the story and its jump line page number.

5 Choose Object > Group. This keeps the story

and its jump line together if you move them.

6 If necessary, repeat this procedure to add more

jump lines.

To insert the previous page number using a

keyboard shortcut, press Alt+Shift+Ctrl+[ (Windows) or Option+Shift+Command+[ (Mac OS). To insert the next page number, press Alt+Shift+Ctrl+] (Windows) or Option+Shift+Command+] (Mac OS).

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Identifying the end of a story

When the Show Hidden Characters command is selected, a special character (#) marks the end of a story. It indicates that the text in a frame is not threaded to any subsequent text frames. This special character is visible only in a document window; it won’t output or print, and you can’t use the Find/Change command to locate it. This character appears automatically in every story; you can’t add or remove it.

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If you want to mark the end of a story with a

visible, printable symbol (also known as a dingbat), at the end of each story add an inline graphic or a character from a graphics font.

Working with enhanced text wrap around imported graphics

InDesign 1.5 includes several enhancements for wrapping text around graphics. Automatic text wrap now works with all imported bitmap and vector graphics. (InDesign 1.0 generated automatic text wrap boundaries for bitmap images only.)

By default, InDesign 1.5 ﬁrst looks in the graphic for an embedded path (such as a clipping path) to use as a wrap boundary. If it can’t ﬁnd an embedded path in the graphic, it looks for an alpha channel. If neither exists, InDesign uses automatic edge detection. Automatic edge detection looks for a high-contrast edge, so the graphic doesn’t have to be on a pure white background.

You can specify the method you want to use to generate the text wrap boundary. When an image contains more than one embedded path or alpha channel, you can specify which one to use. Regardless of the text wrap method you use, you can always manually adjust the resulting text wrap boundary. For more information about manual adjustment and about other text wrap features, see the Adobe InDesign User Guide.

To wrap text around an imported graphic:

1 If necessary, choose Object > Text Wrap to

display the Text Wrap palette. If the Contour Options aren’t visible, choose Show Options from the Text Wrap palette menu.

2 Using the direct-selection tool ( ), select an

imported graphic.

3 In the Text Wrap palette, click the Wrap Text

Around Object Shape option, and specify wrap offset values as necessary.

4 To specify contour options, choose one of the

following from the Type menu on the Text Wrap palette:

• To wrap text to the rectangle formed by the

graphic’s height and width, choose Bounding Box.

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