QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign CS4 Conversion Guide

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The object on the far right is out of alignment. If we drag it to the left (shown here as an outline), the cursor indicates the current position of the object. Green Smart Guides with arrowheads indicate the three objects will have equal space between them when the mouse button is released. Horizontal Smart Guides indicate the object is aligned along the top, center, and bottom of the frame to its left. and drag the object’s center point, or switch to the Selection tool and drag a frame edge. ■■ When you use the Edit > Paste Into command to place a copied object into another object, the pasted object is nested within the frame that contains it. To select a nested object, click the object with the Direct Selection tool. Deselect All Press Shift+Command+A (Mac OS) or Shift+Ctrl+A (Windows) to deselect all objects or text on a spread. It is particularly helpful to do this before creating or editing color swatches or editing a paragraph or character style, so that the swatch or style is not accidentally applied to the selected text or object. Smart Guides Smart Guides are temporary guides that appear as you create, move, rotate, resize, or scale an object or group of objects on your page. They help you lay out objects on a page quickly, without having to create guides and grids manually. You can turn Smart Guides on or off in the View > Grids & Guides menu, or by pressing Command+U (Mac OS) or Ctrl+U (Windows). For example, if you want two objects to align along their left sides, you can enable Smart Guides, and then start dragging one of the objects with the Selection tool. When the sides or center points of the two objects are aligned, InDesign displays a light green guideline. If you drag a third object near these first two, you will see a different kind of Smart Guide—one with arrows on each end—when the space between all three objects matches exactly. If you rotate an object with the Rotate tool, InDesign shows the current angle next to the cursor, and displays a green Smart Guide when the rotation matches the same angle as any other rotated object visible on the page. Note that the Smart Guides feature sees only the objects that you can see at your current view. If you want Smart Guides to ignore an object, scroll the page so that you cannot see it, or place it on a hidden layer. Making New Color Swatches By default, the Swatches panel contains colors swatches for each of the four process colors, plus processcolor equivalents of red, green, and blue. To add a new color swatch, choose New Color Swatch from the panel menu, and then choose Process or Spot from the Color Type pop-up menu. You can choose preset libraries of colors, such as Pantone Solid Coated, from the Color Mode pop-up menu. Important Techniques 37
The Kuler panel lets you explore relationships between colors and build custom color themes that you can use in InDesign or upload to http://kuler.adobe.com. You can also create unnamed colors with the Color panel. If you do this, you can then add those colors to the Swatches panel by choosing either Add To Swatches from the Color panel menu or Add Unnamed Colors from the Swatches panel menu. Note that you can rearrange named colors in the Swatches panel by dragging them up or down. Also, adding or removing colors in the Swatches panel while no documents are open affects all new files you create. The Kuler panel (which is now directly accessible within InDesign by choosing Window > Extensions > Kuler) lets you download color swatches from Adobe’s popular Kuler website as well as create and edit your own color themes. Making and Applying Gradients There are several ways to define and apply a gradient from one color to another. You can apply a gradient to any selected object by opening the Gradient panel (Window > Gradient) and clicking the gradient swatch icon. Then you can choose Linear or Radial from the Type pop-up menu, and adjust its Location and Angle. To change the colors, click the gradient stops under the gradient bar, and choose a color in the Color panel. Alternatively, you can hold down the Option (Mac OS) or Alt (Windows) key and click a named color in the Swatches panel. To add new gradient stops, click a blank area below the gradient bar. You can add the current gradient to the Swatches panel (or create a new named gradient) by choosing New Gradient Swatch from the Swatches panel menu. Named gradients do not include information about blend angle or location. The Gradient Swatch tool lets you specify the start point, end point, and To add the gradient to the Swatches panel, choose New Gradient Swatch from the Swatches panel menu, or drag the swatch icon from the Gradient panel into the Swatches panel (shown here). You can use the Gradient and Color panels to define a two-color gradient. Double-clicking the swatch in the Swatches panel opens the Gradient Options dialog box, where you can name or edit the swatch. 38 Adobe InDesign CS4 | Conversion Guide
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