Real World Adobe InDesign CS4- P15 doc

      3. Choose a color swatch from the Color pop-up menu, and enter a tint value in the Tint eld, if necessary. Note that you can also set the ll to overprint using the Overprint option. 4. Click the OK button to close the dialog box and apply the ll. Alternatively, you can apply a ll to a cell using the Swatches panel or Color panel (see Figure 6-33). 1. Select a cell or range of cells. 2. Click the Fill selector at the top of the Swatches panel or Color panel to make it active (if it’s not already active). 3. Click the swatch (if you’re using the Swatches panel) or color (if you’re using the Color panel) to apply it to the cell. Applying Gradients to Table Cells. You can apply a gradient to the ll and stroke of a cell, but the results might not be what you’d expect (see Figure 6-34). 1. Select the cells.  - Applying a Stroke to Selected Cell Borders In this example, we want to remove the strokes around the outside edges (top, le, and right) of the rst row in the table, but we don’t want to remove the stroke at the bottom of the row. To do this, we use the Cell Proxy in the Stroke panel. When you click a border in the Cell Proxy, it changes from blue to gray (which is hard to represent in this book!) Select the cell you want to format. InDesign displays the Cell Proxy in the Stroke panel. Click the cell border you want to protect from formatting, then apply a stroke. In this example, we have turned o the bottom border.e top, le, and right borders of the rst row have been set to zero point strokes, but the bottom border of the row retains its original stroke weight. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 421Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 421 08/04/2009 05:55:20 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:20 p.m.  .       - Applying a Fill to a Cell (Dialog Box Method) Select a cell or series of cells. Choose Strokes and Fills from the Cell Options submenu of the Context or Table menu. InDesign displays the Strokes and lls panel of the Cell Options dialog box. Specify ll options in the Strokes and Fills panel of the Cell Options dialog box. InDesign applies the ll to the selected cells.  - Applying a Fill to a Cell (Panel Method) Click the Fill selector at the top of the Swatches panel (if it’s not already active). Select a cell or a range of cells. Click a swatch. InDesign applies the ll to the selected cells. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 422Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 422 08/04/2009 05:55:20 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:20 p.m.        - Applying a Gradient to a Cell Select a cell. Display the Gradient panel and click the Gradient Ramp to apply a gradient ll. InDesign positions the start and end of the gradient (in this example, the center point of a radial gradient) based on the width and height of the entire table— not the width of the cell itself. Center point of a radial gradient applied to the cell. 2. Display the Gradient panel, if it’s not already visible. 3. Click in the Gradient Ramp to apply a gradient to the selected cells. Adjust the gradient settings to dene the type, color, and angle of the gradient (as discussed in Chapter 5, “Drawing”). Note that the gradient is based on the width and height of the table, rather than on the selected cell or cells. is may or may not give you the eect you’re looking for. To gain more control over the start/end points of the gradient, create and ll a rectangle, then paste the rectangle into the cell. Applying Diagonal Lines. To apply diagonal lines to a cell, use the options in the Diagonal Lines panel of the Cell Options dialog box (see Figure 6-35). 1. Select a cell, row, column, or table (table border strokes apply to the entire table, so you need only select part of the table). 2. Display the Diagonal Lines panel of the Cell Options dialog box (choose Diagonal Lines from the Cell Options submenu of the Context menu). 3. Turn on one of the diagonal lines options. Choose a stroke weight, stroke type, color, and tint. If you want the diagonal lines to overprint, turn on the Overprint option. If you want the diagonal lines to appear in front of the table, turn on the Draw in Front option. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 423Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 423 08/04/2009 05:55:20 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:20 p.m.  .      4. Click the OK button to apply the diagonal lines. Formatting Table Borders. To apply a stroke to the edges of a table, use the options in the Table Border section of the Table Setup panel of the Table Options dialog box (see Figure 6-36). Note that apply- ing a border to a table is the same as applying borders to the outside edges of each of cells on each side of the table—but it’s a lot faster. 1. Select a cell, row, column, or table (table border strokes apply to the entire table, so you need only select part of the table). 2. Display the Table Setup panel of the Table Options dialog box (press Command-Option-Shi-B/Ctrl-Alt-Shi-B). 3. Choose a stroke weight, stroke type, color, and tint. If you want the stroke to overprint, turn on the Overprint option.  - Applying Diagonal Lines to a Cell InDesign displays the Diagonal Lines panel of the Cell Options dialog box. Select a cell, then choose Diagonal Lines from the Cell Options submenu of the Context or Table menu. Use the controls to specify the formatting of the diagonal lines. InDesign applies the diagonal lines to the cell. In this example table, a diagonal line in a cell indicates that the seats in that section are no longer available. TimeTravel Tickets has run out of box seats for the November 25, 1882, premiere of “Iolanthe,” so we have to apply diagonal lines to the corresponding cell. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 424Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 424 08/04/2009 05:55:20 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:20 p.m.        - Applying Strokes to Table Borders Select a cell, row, column, or the entire table (as we have in this example), then Press Command-Shi-Option-B/Ctrl- Shi-Alt-B to display the Table Setup panel of the Table Options dialog box. Specify the stroke weight, color, and tint you want to apply to the table borders. Click the OK button to apply your changes. InDesign applies the stroke to the outside borders of the cells at the outside (le, right, top, or bottom) of the table. Example table without a table border. 4. If you want to prevent the table border formatting from overrid- ing formatting you’ve applied to the cells in the table (i.e., any formatting other than the default table formatting), turn on the Preserve Local Formatting option. Applying Alternating Fills and Strokes. e options in the Row Strokes, Column Strokes, and Fills panels of the Table Options dialog box provide a way for you to vary the formatting of rows and columns in a table according to a predened pattern. Shading table rows or columns is oen a more visually pleasing way to format a table than using strokes (this depends on the design of the piece in which the table appears). Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 425Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 425 08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.  .      All of these panels work the same way—you select a pattern from the Alternating Pattern pop-up menu, and then you specify the for- matting applied by that pattern. If the pattern you chosee is None, InDesign doesn’t alternate the corresponding ll or stroke properties in the table. Otherwise, InDesign applies one of two formats to the rows and columns in the table. Formatting you apply using alter- nating lls or strokes overrides any cell formatting you’ve already applied to the cells in the table (it has no eect on text formatting). To apply an alternating ll or stroke pattern to a table, follow these steps (see Figure 6-37). 1. Select a cell, row, column, or table (this formatting applies to the entire table, so do whatever is easiest for you). 2. Display the panel of the Table Options dialog box that corre- sponds to the attribute you want to work with (i.e., Row Strokes, Column Strokes, or Fills). Turn on the Preview option—it can help you understand the eect of the formatting options.  - Applying Alternating Fills Select a cell, row, column, or table, then choose Alternating Fills from the Table Options submenu of the Context or Table menu. Select a pattern from the Alternating Pattern pop-up menu, then specify the formatting you want to apply. Note that we’ve directed our alternating pattern to skip the rst two rows in the table (to avoid the table header row and title). InDesign applies the alternating ll pattern to the rows in the table. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 426Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 426 08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.       3. Choose an option from the Alternating Pattern pop-up menu. 4. Choose a color for the alternating pattern (until you do this, you probably won’t see any changes to the table, even if you have turned on the Preview option). 5. If you want the alternating pattern to ignore rows at the begin- ning or end of the table (for alternating row strokes) or at the le or right edges of the column (if you’re working with alternating column strokes), enter the number of cells in the Skip First and Skip Last elds. It should be clear you can create quite complex alternating for- matting using these options. e only real way to learn how the dif- ferent alternating formatting features work is to experiment with the settings. Create an example table, open the Table Options dialog box, turn on the Preview option, and play! Table and Cell Styles e problem with formatting tables is that it just takes far too long, especially when you have a bunch of tables in a document. at’s where table styles come in handy! Table styles—like their cousins paragraph styles and object styles—are a way to collect a bunch of formatting together and give it a single name. InDesign oers both table styles (for table-wide formatting) and cell styles (for formatting that aects a single cell). e Basic Table Style. Every new document comes with one table style called Basic. e problem is that if you redene Basic and use it in your document, and then later copy one of these ables and paste it into a dierent document, your table will change in appearance. Because of that, we recommend you create your own styles instead of using Basic. While it’s tempting to jump in and discuss table styles, it’s typically better to dene your cell styles rst because you’ll use them in your table style denition. To dene a new cell style, follow these steps (see Figure 6-38): 1. Choose New Cell Style from the Cell Style panel menu or Option/Alt-click on the New Cell Style button in the panel. Dening Cell Styles Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 427Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 427 08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.  .      2. In the General pane of the New Cell Style dialog box, give the style a name and—if you want—a keyboard shortcut. (Shortcuts have to be based on the keys on a numeric keypad.) If you’ve already created a cell style, you can base your new one on it so that it takes on all the same formatting. e coolest feature in the General pane is the Paragraph Style pop-up menu. If you choose a paragraph style here, it will auto- matically apply to any text inside the cell. 3. e next three panes—Text, Strokes and Fills, and Diagonal Lines—are virtually identical to same-named panes in the Cell Options dialog box, so there’s no reason to repeat ourselves. For more information, see those sections earlier in this chapter.  - Dening Cell Styles Hold down Option/Alt and click the New Cell Style button to force the New Cell Style dialog box to open. Work your way through the panels in the Cell Style Options dialog box to dene a new cell style. To apply a cell style, place the cursor in the cell and click in the Cell Styles panel. Click the OK button to close the dialog box, and InDesign adds a new cell style. Just as in a Character style, blank elds are ignored when the cell style is applied. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 428Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 428 08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.       e important thing to note about these panes, however, is that—like character styles—all the controls are blank until you set them. A blank eld or pop-up menu (or a dash in a checkbox) means “ignore this formatting” so it won’t be applied when the cell is styled. For example, if you leave the Cell Fill Color pop-up menu blank, then your cell style will not override the cell ll color already applied to the cell in the table. If your cursor is currently inside a formatted cell when you create a new cell style, the current formatting appears in the New Cell Style dialog box automatically. at’s oen the fastest way to dene a cell style. However, InDesign won’t apply the cell style for you aer you click OK—you still have to do that with a click in the Cell Styles panel. Once you’ve dened the cell styles you need, it’s time to build your table style. To dene a table style, follow these steps (see Figure 6-39): 1. Choose New Table Style from the Table Style panel menu or Option/Alt-click on the New Cell Style button in the panel. 2. In the General pane of the New Table Style dialog box, give the style a name and—if you want—a keyboard shortcut based on the numeric keypad keys. If you want to base the table style on another table style, choose it from the Based On dialog box. We recommend not basing new styles on the Basic Table style, as it makes it too easy for tables to get messed up when copying them to a new document. You can have InDesign automatically apply cell styles to areas of your table by choosing from the Cell Styles pop-up menus. For example, if you have created a cell style to describe the look of all the cells in your table (not including a header row), choose that style from the Body Rows pop-up menu. You can specify dierent cell styles for Body Rows, Header Rows, Footer Rows, and the cells in the Le Column and Right Column. Remember that each of these cell styles can apply its own paragraph style to the text inside those cells, too. at’s how you apply paragraph styles throughout a table by using a table style. 3. e next four panes of the New Table Style dialog box—Table Setup, Row Strokes, Column Strokes, and Fills—are nearly iden- tical to the similarly-named panes in the Table Options dialog box, so go read about those earlier in the chapter. However, some features are conspiculously absent in the table style denition, notably anything that has to do with the Dening Table Styles Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 429Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 429 08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.  .       - Dening a Table Style Hold down Option/Alt and click the New Table Style button in the Table Styles panel. Apply cell styles here Here we’ve turned o the table border. e original unformatted table. Aer applying the table style, the paragraphs are formatted and the rows have alternating tints. Aer we convert the rst row to a header row, InDesign automatically applies the header cell style to it. structure of the table: Table Dimensions, Headers, and Footers. Table styles cannot control these aspects of a table. at can be quite frustrating at times. For example, if you import an Excel or Word table and apply a table style to it, there’s no way for the style to tell the table that the rst row should be a header row. Instead, you have to manually use Convert Rows to Header. at can get tiresome with a lot of tables. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 430Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 430 08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:21 p.m. [...]... offset fields… Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 434 …and InDesign changes the offset for the corresponding side 08/04/2009 05:55:22 p.m 422 real world adobe indesign cs4 Figure 6-42 Contour Text Wrap Options This image includes a path saved in Photoshop If you don’t see the bottom half of the panel, choose More Options from the panel menu When you first apply a contour text wrap, InDesign bases... Text Wrap Any independent object in an InDesign publication can have a text wrap—a boundary that repels text—applied to it Wrapping text around an object is something like the opposite of flowing text inside a text frame When you flow text inside a frame, you want text to stay Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 432 08/04/2009 05:55:22 p.m 420 real world adobe indesign cs4 inside a path; when you apply... up the leading Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 442 08/04/2009 05:55:24 p.m 430 real world adobe indesign cs4 The only time we use “auto” leading is when we’re working with a paragraph that contains only an inline frame The only trouble is that we want the vertical distance taken up by the paragraph to be exactly equal to the height of the inline frame—no more, no less By default, InDesign s “auto”... submenu in the Object or Context menu InDesign displays the Anchored Object Options dialog box Turn on the Above Line option, then select an alignment and enter the space before and space after distances you want Here’s the final anchored object, with space above and below added Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 446 08/04/2009 05:55:24 p.m 434 real world adobe indesign cs4 You can also adjust the... you’re telling InDesign to position the lower-right corner of the anchored object at a particular place on the page (We’ll get to where it’ll be positioned in a moment.) 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Sides) leaves something to be desired Choosing Right Side or Largest Area from the Wrap To pop-up menu forces the text to flow on only one side of the object Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 436 08/04/2009 05:55:23 p.m 424 real world adobe indesign cs4 Converting Text to Outlines When you work in graphic design, you frequently need to alter character shapes for logos or packaging designs For years,... value to 100 percent, and InDesign makes the vertical space occupied by the inline frame equal to the height of the frame Creating Hanging Side Heads Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 443 If there’s one thing that inline frames make easier, it’s hanging side heads You know—the headings that appear to the left of a column of text (like the one to the left of this paragraph) In InDesign, you can create... pop-up menu InDesign sets the text wrap contour to the shape of the path Figure 6-43 Inverted Text Wrap Regular Text Wrap Inverted Text Wrap this very helpful when well, actually, almost never But it’s nice to have options Editing a Text Wrap Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 435 The text wrap boundary is a path, and can be edited and adjusted just as you’d change the shape of any path in InDesign (see . a cell or a range of cells. Click a swatch. InDesign applies the ll to the selected cells. Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 42 2Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 422 08/04/2009 05:55:20 p.m.08/04/2009. the table header row and title). InDesign applies the alternating ll pattern to the rows in the table. Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 42 6Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 426 08/04/2009. box, and InDesign adds a new cell style. Just as in a Character style, blank elds are ignored when the cell style is applied. Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 42 8Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf