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area capable of enclosing the selection. e selection handles on the bounding box also correspond to the points on the proxy in the Transform panel. You can also select everything on the current spread by choosing Select All from the Edit menu (or pressing Command/Ctrl-A) while using either selection tool. e Direct Selection Tool. As we noted in “Using the Tools Panel” in Chapter 1, “Workspace,” when you click an object using the Direct Selection tool, InDesign displays the points on the object’s path— whether it’s a line or a frame. You can also use the Direct Selection tool to select objects nested inside other objects (see “Selecting Inside Objects,” below). e most common example is selecting a picture inside a graphic frame—the frame and the picture are two separate objects in InDesign, and you can use the Direct Selection tool to select the frame (by clicking on its edge) or the picture (by clicking anywhere inside the frame). You can drag a selection marquee using the Direct Selection tool, too, just as you can with the Selection tool—InDesign selects the points on the objects within the selection, even if they’re in more When you select an object using the Selection tool, InDesign displays the objects’s selection handles and bounding box. When you select an object using the Direct Selection tool, InDesign displays the points on the path(s) of the object. Selection handles Bounding box When you drag a selection rectangle around an object or objects… …InDesign selects all of the objects that the selection rectangle touches. e proxy in the Transform panel and Control panel represents the selection handles of the selected object. Proxy - Selecting Objects Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 121Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 121 08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m. . than one object. To select all the points on a line or frame, hold down Option/Alt while you click the path with the Direct Selection tool. Deselecting. To deselect all selected objects, click an uninhabited area of the page or pasteboard, or, better yet, press Command-Shi- A/Ctrl-Shi-A. We’ve developed this keyboard shortcut into some- thing of a nervous tic; there are so many times you need to make sure everything is deselected. For example, when you create a new color, InDesign applies that color to whatever you have selected. If you don’t want this, you’d better deselect everything rst! Sometimes, you have to select an object that’s behind another object. You might, for example, need to select and edit a background graphic behind a text frame. Do you need to drag the text frame out of the way? Or hide the layer containing the text frame? ere’s a better way: Click the Selection tool on the object on top of the stack, then press Command/Ctrl and click again. InDesign selects the next object in the stack. Each successive click selects the next object down in the stack (see Figure 2-25). If you click too far, you can move back up the stack by Command-Option/Ctrl-Alt-clicking. Select ing rough Objects e rst click selects the object on top of the stack of objects… Want to select an object that’s behind other objects? You don’t need to drag objects out of the way. Instead, hold down Command/Ctrl and click the Selection tool above the object you want to select. …but each subsequent click selects the next object in the stack. Text frame selected Background graphic selected - Selecting rough Objects When overlapping objects are exactly or nearly the same in size, it can be dicult to see which object in a stack is selected. Don’t start dragging objects out of the way—look for clues. e color of the selection handles, the state of the Fill and Stroke buttons in the Toolbox, and the Stroke panel all provide information that can help you determine which object is selected. InDesign also has menu items and keyboard shortcuts for select- ing objects on your page. e menu items live in the Select sub- menu, under the Object menu, but we only use them if we forget Keyboard Selections Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 122Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 122 08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m. the keyboard shortcuts (below). Note that these features dier from the click-through method; Command/Ctrl-click selects through an object to one directly beneath it. e Select features select from among all the objects on a spread. For example, if you have four small frames, one in each corner of a page (whether they’re overlap- ping or not), you can select among them with these shortcuts. To select the topmost object beneath the surrent selection, based on the stacking order on the page (see “Stacking Objects,” later in this chapter) press Command-Option-Shi-] / Ctrl-Alt-Shi-] or choose First Object Above from the Select submenu. To select the object behind the currently selected object in a stack of objects, press Command-Option-[ / Ctrl-Alt-[ or choose Next Object Below from the Select submenu. Pressing the keyboard shortcut again once you reach the bottom of the stack will select the topmost object. To select the object above the currently selected object in a stack of objects, press Command-Option-] / Ctrl-Alt-] or choose Next Object Above from the Select submenu. To select the bottommost object below the selected object, press Command-Option-Shi-[ / Ctrl-Alt-Shi-[ or choose Last Object Below from the Select submenu. Sometimes, you need to select an object that you’ve pasted inside another object, or to select an object inside a group. e Direct Selec- tion tool, as you might expect, is the tool you’ll usually use to do this, and the process is called “subselection.” (When Ole selects an object that’s inside another object, he actually says the object is “subse- lected.” David, who felt subselected through much of his childhood, prefers the term “select-challenged.”) It’s important to note that InDesign treats groups and page items that happen to contain other items in the same way. You don’t have to ungroup a group, or remove objects from their containing object to select and edit them—you can select them, and then work with them just as you would any other object. To select an object inside another object, you can use any of the following approaches. With the Selection tool selected, double-click the grouped object. InDesign switches to the Direct Selection tool and selects the object (see Figure 2-26). Select ing Inside Objects Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 123Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 123 08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m. . Select the Direct Selection tool, hold down Option/Alt, and click the element that you want to edit. Select the group or containing object with the Selection tool, then choose Content from the Select submenu of the Context menu. is selects an object. If necessary, choose Next Object or Previous Object from the Select submenu of the Context menu until the object you want is selected. Select the group or containing object with the Selection tool, then click the Select Content button in the Control panel. If nec- essary, click the Select Next Object and Select Previous Object buttons until the object you want is selected (see Figure 2-27). Guides InDesign can display four types of guides: margin guides, column guides, ruler guides, and Smart Guides. Guides are nonprinting guidelines you can use for positioning objects on the pages and pasteboard of an InDesign publication. Margin guides appear inside the page margins for a particular page. Column guides are actually pairs of guides that move as a unit. e space between the two guides making up the column guide is the gutter, or column spacing. is built-in spacing makes these guides good for—you guessed it—set- ting up columns. A ruler guide is a horizontal or vertical guideline you can use as an aid to aligning or positioning page items. A Smart Guide is a guide that temporarily appears on page to help you posi- tion an object while you place or move it. You use guides to mark a position on the page or pasteboard. e most important thing about guides is not just that they give you a visual reference for aligning objects to a specic location, but that Click the group with the Selection tool to select the group, or… …double-click one of the objects in the group. is switches to with the Direct Selection tool and selects the object. - Subselecting Objects Inside Groups Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 124Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 124 08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m. they can exert a “pull” on objects you’re moving or creating. To turn on that “pull,” choose Snap to Guides from the from the Grids & Guides submenu of the View menu. When this option is on (it’s on by default), and you drag an object within a certain distance of a guide, InDesign snaps the object to the guide. is is one of our favorite psychocybernetic illusions—as an object snaps to a guide, your nervous system tells you that your hand can feel the “snap” as you drag the mouse. Turning on Snap to Guides - Control Panel Selection Buttons Click the Select Content button again to select an object inside the group. We’ve pasted a group of star polygons inside this circle. Select Container Select Container Select Previous Select Next At any point, you can click the Select Container or Select Content button to move the selection up or down in the hierarchy of objects inside the circle. Click the Select Content button to select the group within the circle. Click Select Next Object in Group or Previous Object in Group to select other objects in the group. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 125Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 125 08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:18 p.m. . can’t physically aect the movement of your mouse, of course, but the illusion is very useful. When you want to drag an object freely, without having it snap to any guides it encounters on its path across the publication window, turn Snap to Guides o. Do not try to align an object to a guide while Snap to Guides is turned o, however—there aren’t enough pixels available on your screen to allow you to do a good job of this at any but the highest magnications (see Figure 2-28). Objects do not snap to guides when guides are hidden. is includes guides that are on a hidden layer. However, they do snap to guides that are invisible due to being in Preview mode. Also, on the Mac OS, you can disable Snap to Guides temporar- ily by holding down the Control key while you’re dragging—unless Smart Guides is enabled (see “Smart Guides,” later in this chapter). When InDesign’s Snap to Guides feature is turned o, it’s easy to think that you’ve gotten an object into perfect alignment with a guide… …but zooming in will oen show you that you’ve missed the guide. Turning on Snap to Guides can help. - Don’t Trust Your Screen Tired of looking at all of the guides? To hide all guides, choose Hide Guides from the Grids & Guides submenu of the View menu (press Command-;/Ctrl-;). To display the guides again, choose Show Guides (or press the keyboard shortcut again). You can also make guides disappear by changing the view thresh- old (see Figure 2-29). For the document grid, baseline grid, margin guides, and column guides, you set the view threshold using the Grids panel of the Preferences dialog box (see Chapter 1, “Work- space”). For individual ruler guides, use the View reshold eld in the Ruler Guides dialog box (select a guide and choose Ruler Guides from the Layout menu or the Context menu). While column guides are very similar to ruler guides, they have an important distinction: they can aect text ow. When you click the text place icon in a column created by column guides, InDesign ows Hiding and Displaying Guides Adjusting Column Guides Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 126Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 126 08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m. the text into the column. By contrast, ruler guides have no eect on text ow. For more on owing text, see Chapter 3, “Text.” e method you use to adjust the position of column guides depends on what you’re trying to do. If you’re trying to divide the area inside the page margins into equal columns, select the page and enter a new value in the Number eld in the Columns section of the Margins and Columns dialog box (from the Layout menu). If, on the other hand, you’re trying to get columns of unequal width, you can start by adding evenly-spaced column guides, and then adjust each one by dragging them to the le or right on the page (see Figure 2-30). You might have to unlock the column guides rst; see “Locking and Unlocking Column Guides,” below. You can’t adjust the distance between the column guides (the “gutter”) by dragging—instead, you’ll have to go to the Margins and Columns dialog box. To change the gutter width, enter a new value in the Gutter eld (see Figure 2-31). When you open the Margins and Columns dialog box aer you’ve set up a custom column guide Now you see ’em… …now you don’t. e View reshold of these ruler guides is set to 100%… …the View reshold of these ruler guides is set to the default: 5%. - Guide View reshold When the column guide reaches the position you want, stop dragging and release the mouse button. Unlock the column guides (if necessary), then position the Selection tool over a column guide and drag. When you create columns of unequal width, InDesign displays “Custom” in the Number eld of the Margins and Columns dialog box. - Creating Columns of Unequal Width Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 127Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 127 08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m. . arrangement, InDesign displays “Custom” in the Number eld. Do not enter a number in this eld, or InDesign will move your column guides so that they again evenly divide the space between the mar- gins. If you change the gutter width without touching the Number eld, InDesign leaves your column guides in their original positions, but changes the space inside each guide. You should also bear in mind that text frames can, by themselves contain multiple columns of equal width, independent of the Mar- gins and Columns setting. For more on this topic, see Chapter 3, “Text.” Sometimes it’s easier to work with a single multi-column text frame than with multiple single-column text frames. You can lock and unlock column guides, just as you can ruler guides. To lock the column guides, choose Lock Column Guides from the Grids & Guides submenu of the View menu; to unlock the guides, choose Unlock Column Guides. To create a new ruler guide, position the cursor over one of the rulers (for a horizontal ruler guide, move the cursor to the vertical ruler; for a vertical ruler guide, use the horizontal ruler), then click-and-drag. As you drag, InDesign creates a new ruler guide at the location of the cursor. When you’ve positioned the ruler guide where you want it, stop dragging (see Figure 2-32). Hold down the Shi key while drag- ging a guide to make it snap to the nearest increment in the ruler. Ruler guides can spread across a single page or the entire paste- board. If you let go of the mouse button while the cursor is over the page, you get a page guide; if the cursor is over the pasteboard, you get a pasteboard guide. You can hold down Command/Ctrl as you drag the guide to force the guide to cross the whole pasteboard. To adjust this type of ruler guide, drag the guide on the pasteboard or Locking and Unlocking Column Guides Creating a New Ruler Guide Default gutter width of 1 pica. Note that the gutter is resized evenly around its center point. Choose Margins and Columns from the Layout menu, then enter a new value in the Gutter eld. Click the OK button to close the dialog box. - Adjusting Gutter Width Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 128Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 128 08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m. with the Command/Ctrl key held down—if you drag it on a page or without the modier key, InDesign will limit the guide to that page. You can also double-click a ruler to create a new ruler guide— InDesign creates a guide at the point at which you clicked. While this sounds appealing, we actually nd it quite dicult to double-click exactly where we want the guide to be; it’s oen more precise to drag. Want to add a regular grid of ruler guides to your page? Try the Create Guides option on the Layout menu (see Figure 2-33). e options in the Create Guides dialog box are pretty straightforward— enter the number of rows and columns you want, and enter the dis- tance you want between the rows and columns. You can also choose to create the guides within the page margins, which is a nice touch. In addition, you can choose to remove all existing ruler guides from the page as you create the new guides. You can snap a guide to any control handle of an object. To do this, select the object with the Selection or Direct Selection tool, and then drag a guide out and drag the cursor on top of any side or corner Using Create Guides Snapping Guides to Objects Position the cursor over a ruler, then hold down the mouse button… …and drag. As you drag, a ruler guide follows the cursor. When the ruler guide reaches the position you want, stop dragging. Drag a ruler guide on a page to limit the guide to that page… …or drag the cursor outside the spread (or hold down Command/ Ctrl) to create a guide that crosses pages in the spread. To make a ruler guide snap to the tick marks on the ruler, hold down Shi as you drag the ruler guide. - Creating a Ruler Guide Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 129Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 129 08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m. . handle—the guide will snap to the handle. You can even snap a guide to a point along a bézier curve. Another way to position ruler guides around a selected object is to use the AddGuides script—one of the sample scripts that come with InDesign. Run the script by double-clicking the script name in the Scripts panel. e script displays a dialog box you can use to set the positions of the ruler guides (see Figure 2-34). Click the OK button, and InDesign adds guides around the selected object or objects. is script is especially useful when you’re setting up a publication for use with InDesign’s layout adjustment features. To select a ruler guide, click on the guide using one of the selection tools, or drag a selection rectangle over the guide. is diers from PageMaker and QuarkXPress, where you cannot select a ruler guide as you would any other object. You can select multiple ruler guides at once by dragging a selection rectangle (a marquee) over them or Shi-clicking on each guide. If the selection marquee touches an object, InDesign selects the object—you cannot select both ruler guides and objects in the same selection. When a ruler guide is selected, it displays in the layer color of the layer it’s on. Adding Ruler Guides Around an Object Selecting Ruler Guides - Using Create Guides Choose Create Guides from the Layout menu. InDesign displays the Create Guides dialog box. Fill in guide options. InDesign creates a grid of guides. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 130Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 130 08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m.08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m. [...]... a guide, then choose Ruler Guides from the context menu or the Layout menu Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 132 Enter a view threshold percentage Choose a color from this pop-up menu 08/04/2009 05:54:20 p.m 120 real world adobe indesign cs4 3 Choose one of InDesign s preset colors from the Color pop-up menu, or (if you’re really finicky) select Custom to create a custom guide color 4 You can also... the layer closest to the front Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 146 When the layer reaches the location you want, stop dragging InDesign changes the layer stacking order 08/04/2009 05:54:22 p.m 134 real world adobe indesign cs4 Merging Layers To combine a series of layers into a single layer, select the layers and then choose Merge Layers from the Layers panel menu InDesign merges the layers into... the back …and then press CommandShift-] or Ctrl-Shift-] InDesign brings the object to the front To send an object to the back of the current layer, select the object… Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 138 To bring an object to the front, select the object… …and then press CommandShift-[ or Ctrl-Shift-[ 08/04/2009 05:54:21 p.m 126 real world adobe indesign cs4 To send an object to the back, choose Send... to choosing Show All Layers from the Layers panel menu (see Figure 2-47) Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 142 08/04/2009 05:54:21 p.m 130 real world adobe indesign cs4 Figure 2-47 Showing and Hiding Other Layers To hide all but one layer, follow these steps Point at the layer’s Visibility icon, hold down Option/Alt… …and click InDesign hides all of the other layers Press Option/Alt and click again... the View menu.) Grids InDesign can display two different grids: the document grid and the baseline grid Both grids are arrangements of guidelines spaced a specified distance apart (Note that the baseline grid is not truly a grid, as it has no vertical guidelines.) You’ll find the settings for both Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 136 08/04/2009 05:54:20 p.m 124 real world adobe indesign cs4 grids in... select an object inside the group, switch to the Direct Selection tool and click the object To ungroup, select a group and press Command-Shift-G/Ctrl-Shift-G Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 148 08/04/2009 05:54:23 p.m 136 real world adobe indesign cs4 Locking Object Positions When you want to keep somebody from changing the location of an object, you can lock it by selecting it and then pressing... on, InDesign uses the layer color for the outlines of frames and other objects When you select an object, its selection handles appear in the selection color of that layer If you don’t pick a color yourself, the program picks one for you automatically To change a color later, either double-click a layer in the Layers panel, or Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 144 08/04/2009 05:54:22 p.m 132 real world. .. vertical space taken up by the Layers panel… …choose Small Panel Rows from the Layers panel menu Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 141 InDesign reduces the height of the list items in the Layers palette 08/04/2009 05:54:21 p.m chapter 2 page layout 129 Figure 2-46 Creating a Layer Click the New Layer button InDesign adds a new layer Or choose New Layer from the Layers panel menu (or Option/ Alt-click... use the techniques above to move them, as a unit, to a new location (see Figure 2-35) Figure 2-35 Moving Multiple Guides Drag a selection rectangle over the guides you want to move Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 131 InDesign selects all of the guides touched by the rectangle Drag the guides Stop dragging when the guides reach the location you want 08/04/2009 05:54:19 p.m chapter 2 page layout... layer, hold down Command-Option/Ctrl-Alt as you drag Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 143 08/04/2009 05:54:22 p.m chapter 2 page layout Figure 2-48 Moving an Object to a Layer 131 Move the cursor over the selection proxy representing the object This object is on the layer named “D layer.” Drag the selection proxy to another layer Drop the selection proxy InDesign moves the object to the layer Object is . Layout menu. InDesign displays the Create Guides dialog box. Fill in guide options. InDesign creates a grid of guides. Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 13 0Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf. column created by column guides, InDesign ows Hiding and Displaying Guides Adjusting Column Guides Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 12 6Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 126 08/04/2009. InDesign displays “Custom” in the Number eld of the Margins and Columns dialog box. - Creating Columns of Unequal Width Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 12 7Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf
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