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gets too close to the top or bottom of the text frame, the anchored object might extend past the frame’s top or bottom edge. If you don’t want this to happen, turn this option on. Prevent Manual Positioning. As we noted earlier, turning on the Prevent Manual Positioning checkbox is exactly the same as choos- ing Lock Position from the Object menu. It’s just a good way to ensure that your anchored objects don’t get accidentally moved. Seeing Markers. Once you’ve set up an anchored object, you may not remember where, exactly, the anchor marker is located. Choose Show Hidden Characters from the Type menu, and you’ll see a little anchor marker symbol in the story—it’s a light blue yen character (¥). Similarly, if you open Story Editor, you can see a black anchor symbol at that location. But perhaps the most useful indicator appears when you choose Show Text reads from the View menu—select the text frame or the anchored object with the Selection tool and you’ll see a dashed line connecting the two. You can wrap text around inline or anchored objects. is feature comes with three big caveats. First, only the story in which the object is anchored is aected. Text in other frames ignores anchored objects. Second, if you anchor an object inside a table cell, text wrap is com- pletely ignored. Finally, only the lines following the line containing an anchored object are aected by the object’s text wrap. e line containing the anchored object ignores the text wrap. Drop Cap Wrap. One of the most frustrating aspects of drop caps is that there is no way to tell InDesign to wrap the subsequent text around them. You can fake it by putting the drop cap character in a separate text frame, or by converting the character to outlines, but then the drop cap wouldn’t travel with the text, right? Enter inline frames. As David rst documented in his book with Anne-Marie Concepción, AdobeInDesign Breakthroughs, you can place a drop cap character in a separate frame, paste it at the end of the paragraph before the paragraph in which it’s supposed to appear (you can put the frame in a blank paragraph when the drop cap appears at the beginning of the story), and then adjust the text wrap boundaries with the Direct Selection tool to get the eect you want (see Figure 6-55). Ole notes that this is a heck of a lot of work to go through to achieve a design eect that is both ugly and makes your text harder to read (as varying the starting position of successive text lines always does). Text Wrap and Inline and Anchored Objects Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 451Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 451 08/04/2009 05:55:25 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:25 p.m. . Further, he notes in his irritating, pedantic fashion, there’s a reason that the drop caps in beautiful old books always place the ornamen- tal drop cap in a rectangular frame—to avoid this very temptation. Earlier, we mentioned that inline frames are the best way to create hanging side heads (such as the one loitering to the le of this para- graph), but we were telling only half of the story. By experimenting on ourselves (as any good pair of mad scientists should), we’ve found that the best approach to hanging side heads is to create inline frames by copying, pasting, and then converting them to anchored objects. We did this because we found that changes in InDesign between CS and CS2 made it much more dicult to control the vertical posi- tion of inline frames—which, in turn, made managing our hanging side heads a bit of a challenge. e good news is that anchored objects oer a level of precision that inline frames just can’t match. We found a set of anchored object settings that worked well with our hang- ing side heads, and then created a script to apply the changes to our chapters. We set up the hanging side heads—most of which were already inline graphics—as shown in Figure 6-56. e horizontal location of the top le corner of the hanging side head is set to the le edge of the text frame, and the vertical location is 13 points above the baseline of the line of text containing the anchor (our leading grid is based on 13 point increments). Anchored Object Recipe: Hanging Side Heads - Wrapping Around an Anchored Drop Cap e original paragraph with a drop cap Cut the drop cap, remove the drop cap formatting from the paragraph, and then paste the drop cap into a new text frame. Choose Fit Frame to Content, then use the Selection tool to cut the drop cap frame and paste it into the line before the paragraph. Choose Wrap Around Bounding Box in the Text Wrap panel, increase the wrap a few points (so you can see them) and then use the Direct Selection tool to cre- ate a custom wrap. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 452Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 452 08/04/2009 05:55:25 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:25 p.m. - Hanging Side Heads as Anchored Objects We allow manual positioning because we need to be able to adjust the height of the frame as we add or delete text. e vertical location of the side head is 13 points above the baseline of the line of text containing the anchor. e horizontal location of the top le corner of the side head is set to the le edge of the text frame (that’s what the zero in the X Oset eld means). We want the frame to remain within the vertical bounds of the text frame, and we allow manual positioning (because we need to be able to adjust the height of the frame as we add or delete text). Object Styles e sidebars in your magazine have a twenty percent cyan ll and a so drop shadow. How many thousand times must you apply that same ll and shadow before you go mad and throw someone else’s computer out the window? (You wouldn’t throw your own out the window; your favorite games are there.) One solution would be to keep an example object in a library (see Chapter 1, “Workspace”) or a snippet (see Chapter 7, “Import and Export”). A more exible and powerful solution is to create an object style. Object styles are just like paragraph and character styles, except that they apply to objects instead of text. An object style is basically just a bunch of object formatting with a name. You can apply that style to a frame or path on your page and all the appropriate for- matting is applied. If you later change the denition of the style, the change immediately ripples through to all the objects tagged with that style. To create an object style, hold down Option/Alt and click the New Object Style button at the bottom of the Object Styles panel (press Creating Object Styles Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 453Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 453 08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m. . Command-F7/Ctrl-F7 to display the panel if it is not already visible). If you have an object selected, the new object style takes on the for- matting attributes of the object. If you don’t have anything selected on the page, then the object style takes on the default formatting of the document, and you will have to dene the style from scratch. We strongly urge you to use the “create style by example” approach, as shown in Figure 6-57). e New Object Style dialog box consists of 10 panels (count ’em!), including Fill, Stroke, Transparency, and Anchored Object Options. You can turn the checkbox next to each panel on or o. On means “apply this formatting as part of the style.” O means “ignore this formatting.” at is, if you turn o the Fill checkbox, it doesn’t mean that the ll should be set to None; it means that this object style has no eect on the ll of objects. You can create one object style that applies only a specic text wrap to an object, and a dierent style that applies only a stroke and a drop shadow. If you draw a frame and apply the rst style, only the text wrap would be applied. en you can apply the second style, changing only the stroke and drop shadow. At this point, the object is tagged with the second style, not the rst, which means that if you redene the rst object style, this object will not be updated. Note that you can press Tab to jump to the list of panels, and then press the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard to move among them. You can also Option/Alt-click on a checkbox to toggle the other categories: Option/Alt-click on an “on” checkbox to turn all the others o, and vice versa. Style Settings. At the bottom of the General panel of the New Object Style dialog box is a list of Style Settings. You can use this as a sum- mary of settings the object style will apply. But to be honest, we never use this. It’s just easier to use the shortcuts to ip through each panel. If you do use it, you should Option/Alt-click on the little triangles so that they fully expand. (Otherwise, you have to click over and over again, which is annoying.) Keyboard Shortcuts. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to an object style in the General panel. Like keyboard shortcuts for para- graph styles and character styles, the shortcut must use the numeric keypad keys (make sure that Num Lock is on), not normal numbers, characters, or function keys. Basing One Object Style on Another. You can also choose another object style from the Based On pop-up menu in the General panel Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 454Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 454 08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m. - Creating an Object Style 1. Select an object that has the formatting attributes you want to assign to the object style. 2. Hold down Option/Alt and click the New Object Style button. 3. Make any changes you want in the panels of the New Object Style dialog box. Turn o sections to prevent the style from aecting the corresponding object properties. In this example, we chose to associate a paragraph style and text frame baseline oset with the object style, so the text inside the objects was aected, too. You can also apply transparency eects to Object, Fill, Stroke, or Text inside an object style. 4. Click OK, and InDesign adds the new object style to the list of available styles. 5. Select an object or objects and apply the style, and you’ll see that the formatting attributes of the original object are applied to the selected objects. to create a “parent/child” relationship between styles. If you change the denition of the based on (“parent”) style, that change is passed along to this style, too—provided that the child style didn’t already override the parent style’s formatting. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 455Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 455 08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m. . To clear the formatting in an object style that diers from its parent style, click the Reset to Base button. is makes the attributes of the style identical to those of the parent style. Every new document you create contains three initial object styles: None, Basic Graphics Frame, and Basic Text Frame. (ey’re listed in the panel with brackets so you know that they’re special and can’t be deleted.) When you create a path or an empty frame (one with an “X” through it), the None style is applied—that is, no style at all. When you make a text or graphics frame, the relevant style is applied. You can redene these styles (see “Editing Object Styles,” later in this section), and once you create new object styles, you can even tell InDesign to use those as your defaults instead. For example, you might need to create a bunch of similarly-for- matted text frames. You could change the Default Text Frame Style to one with the appropriate formatting, draw the frames, and then restore the original settings to the default style. To change the default text frame style, choose a style from the Default Text Frame Style submenu in the Object Styles panel menu. (Or the Default Graphics Frame Style submenu to change that default.) Actually, it’s even easier than that: See the little icons to the right of the default styles in the panel? Just drag one of them to the style you want to set as the default (see Figure 6-58). Alternatively, you can deselect everything and then select a style. In general, this sets the default graphics frame style; but when you have the Type tool selected, this sets the default text frame style. e Default Styles - Setting a Default Object Style Drag the default icon (for either the graphics frame or text frame) to a new object style. e object style you drop the icon on becomes the default object style for the corresponding frame type. You can apply an object style in any of several ways. Select an object or series of objects and click the object style name in the Object Styles panel (or choose it from the object style pop-up menu in the Control panel). Applying Object Styles Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 456Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 456 08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m. Drag an object style name from the Object Styles panel and drop it on an object (the object need not be selected). Select an object, then press Command-Return/Ctrl-Enter to invoke the Quick Apply feature, and then type a few characters of the style name (see “Quick Apply,” later in this chapter). Note that if you have a lot of object styles, you can rearrange them in the panel by dragging them up or down. To reset them to alpha- betical order, choose Sort by Name from the panel menu. Clearing Local Formatting. Just as you can apply local text format- ting to text over a paragraph or character style, you can apply local object formatting over an object style. You might apply an object style that lls a frame with cyan, and then manually override that to make the frame yellow. To remove all of the local overrides, click the Clear Overrides button in the Object Styles panel (or choosing the feature of the same name from the panel menu). Or you can Option/ Alt-click on the style name to reset it and remove all overrides. ere’s another “clear” button in the panel: Clear Attributes Not Dened by Style. Clicking this button (or choosing it from the panel menu) is the same as applying the None object style and then reap- plying the style. InDesign sets all the object formatting that isn’t described in the style denition (all of the panels without check- marks next to them) to equal what you’d get with the None style. Breaking the Link. As we mentioned earlier, applying an object style creates a link between the object and the style. To convert the format- ting applied by the object style to local formatting and break the link between the object and the style, choose Break Link to Style from the Object Styles panel menu. e object’s appearance won’t change, but future changes to the style denition have no eect on the object. ere are a whole mess o’ ways to edit an object style. Double-click the style name in the Object Styles panel. If an object is selected on the page when you do this, the style will be applied to it. Right-click (or Control-click until you come to your senses and buy a two-button mouse) the style name in the Object Styles panel and choose Edit. is has the advantage of not applying the style to any selected objects. Editing Object Styles Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 457Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 457 08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m. . Select an object that has the style applied to it and then choose Style Options from the object style pop-up menu in the Control panel (this pop-up menu sits to the le of pop-up menu that lists the object styles). Press Command-Return/Ctrl-Enter to bring up Quick Apply, type enough of the style name so that it is highlighted, and then press Command-Return/Ctrl-Enter again. Change the formatting of an object that is already tagged with the style, and then choose Redene Style from the Object Styles panel menu. is updates the style denition to match the cur- rent formatting of the selected object. To delete an object style, select the style in the Object Styles panel and click the Delete Style button, or drag the style name on top of the button. If the style is in use (if any objects are tagged with it), InDesign asks you which style it should apply in its place. If you choose None, you also have the option to Preserve Formatting. When this checkbox is on, objects that were tagged with the style will still appear the same, but all the formatting will be converted to local formatting. If you turn o Preserve Formatting, the objects will be completely cleared of formatting: no ll, stroke, and so on. How can you move your carefully-constructed object styles from one document to another? One easy way is to copy any object tagged with the style and then paste it into the target document—the style comes with it and you can then delete the object if you want. If you want to import a bunch of styles, it may be easier to choose Load Object Styles from the Object Style panel menu. InDesign asks you to select another InDesign document, and then asks you which object styles you want to import from it. If there are object styles that have the same name in the two documents, you have a choice whether to use the incoming denition or to rename the style. Placing Text on a Path InDesign can place text on a path, as well as place text inside a path (which is what a text frame is, aer all). Once you’ve added text to a path, you can select the text just as you would select any other text— select the Type tool and drag it through the characters you want to Deleting Object Styles Importing Object Styles Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 458Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 458 08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m. select, or click the Type tool in the text and use keyboard shortcuts. To select the path, use the Selection tool or Direct Selection tool. To attach text to a path, follow these steps (see Figure 6-59). 1. Select the Path Type tool. 2. Move the tool over a path. e cursor changes to indicate that InDesign is ready to place text on the path. 3. Click the tool on the path. InDesign places the cursor on the path. e position of the cursor depends on the document’s default paragraph alignment (if the default alignment is le, for example, the cursor will appear at the start of the path). Instead of clicking, you can drag the tool along the path to dene the area of the path you want to ll with text. If InDesign cannot t all of the text onto the path, the extra text is stored as overset text. 4. Add text to the path just as you would add text to a text frame—by typing, pasting text from the Clipboard, or import- ing text from a text le. is creates a new kind of object—not a text frame, not a path, but a blending of the two we’ll refer to as a “path text object” from here on out. Once you’ve attached text to a path, you can change its position on the path by dragging the Start Indicator or the End Indicator (see Figure 6-60), or change its orientation relative to the path using the Center/Flip Direction Indicator (see Figure 6-61). Like text frames, path text objects feature an in port and an out port you can use to link the text to other text containers (text frames or other text path objects). You can even link text from a path text object to the interior of the path text object. InDesign does not apply paragraph rules to text in path text objects. You can control both the baseline position of text on a path and the relationship of the text to the shape of the path. To do this, select a path text object (or some of the text on a path) and then choose Options from the Type on a Path submenu of the Type menu (or Context menu). InDesign displays the Type on a Path Options dialog box (see Figure 6-62). Eect. Do the character shapes distort in some way, or do they remain unchanged? at’s the question you’re answering when you make a choice from the Eect pop-up menu (see Figure 6-63). What, exactly, do these oddly named options do? Type on a Path Options Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 459Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 459 08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m. . Select the Type on a Path tool. Position the tool above a path. Enter, paste, or place some text. Use the Type on a Path tool to select and format the text. InDesign displays this cursor when the Type on a Path tool is ready to add text to a path. - Adding Text to a Path Select the Selection tool and position the cursor above the Start indicator… …and drag the indicator along the path. InDesign repositions the text on the path. …or the End indicator… - Changing the Position of Text on a Path Rainbow rotates the center point of each baseline to match the angle of the path at the location of the character. Skew skews the horizontal axis of the character to match the angle of the path at the location of the character, but leaves the vertical axis of the character unchanged. 3D Ribbon skews the vertical axis of each character to match the angle of the path at the location of the character, but leaves the character’s horizontal axis unchanged. Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 460Real_World_Adobe_InDesign_CS4b.pdf 460 08/04/2009 05:55:27 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:27 p.m. [...]... Path submenu (of the Type menu or Context menu) Figure 6-67 Spacing Enter a value in the Spacing field… …and InDesign adjusts the spacing of text on curved line segments Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 464 08/04/2009 05:55:28 p.m 452 realworld adobe indesign cs4 Quick Apply There are some InDesign features that make a huge difference in the way that we work, but seem, in some ways, very small They... graphics because we cover importing text in Chapter 3, “Text.” Note that you won’t find an exploration of InDesign s XML import and export features here; we’ll cover that in Chapter 14, “XML.” 455 Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 468 08/04/2009 05:55:28 p.m 456 realworldadobeindesign cs4 Importing InDesign offers three ways to bring files from other applications into your publications Here are your... before selecting Place), turn this option off Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 470 08/04/2009 05:55:29 p.m 458 realworldadobeindesign cs4 Figure 7-1 Placing a Graphic Without First Making a Frame Choose Place from the File menu (or press Command-D/ Ctrl-D) InDesign displays the Place dialog box Locate and select a file, then click the Open button InDesign displays a graphic “place” cursor along... files? InDesign can read layered 8-bit and 16-bit images in the PSD and TIFF file formats, and 32-bit HDR images in the PSD file format However, InDesign can turn on and off layers (make them visible or not) in layered PSD or PDF files, but not layered TIFF files (see “Object Layer Options,” later in this chapter) Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 476 08/04/2009 05:55:29 p.m 464 realworldadobe indesign. .. “Workspace”) Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 478 08/04/2009 05:55:30 p.m 466 realworld adobe indesign cs4 The default settings follow these basic rules: ▶ When you choose Fast Display, InDesign grays out both vector and bitmapped images and turns off all transparency effects The display of these gray boxes is very fast, but somewhat lacking in detail ▶ When you choose Typical Display, InDesign uses... works About Graphic File Formats InDesign can import a range of graphic file formats, including Adobe Illustrator (AI) and Adobe Photoshop (PSD) formats, TIFF Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 473 08/04/2009 05:55:29 p.m chapter 7 importing and exporting 461 images, JPEG images, GIF images, and EPS files It can even import other InDesign files themselves as graphics From InDesign s point of view, there... align the baseline of the characters to the path (see Figure 6-65) Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 462 08/04/2009 05:55:27 p.m 450 realworld adobe indesign cs4 Figure 6-64 Another Way to Flip Text on a Path Select a path text object Display the Type on a Path Options dialog box and turn on the Flip option Turn on the Flip option, and InDesign flips the text across the path Figure 6-65 Align Options... you click Open (or Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 472 08/04/2009 05:55:29 p.m 460 realworld adobe indesign cs4 you Shift-click Open, which is the same as turning on the checkbox), you’ll be rewarded with an Import Options dialog box for each file you’ve imported—kind of a pain if you’re importing 20 images After you click Open (or click OK in the Import Options dialog box), InDesign loads all... scripts, select Include Scripts You can also filter the items by typing a code at the beginning of the Quick Apply text For example, you can type “p:note” to limit Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 466 08/04/2009 05:55:28 p.m 454 realworld adobe indesign cs4 Figure 6-69 Customizing Quick Apply You can control which items are listed in the Quick Apply panel using the panel menu By choosing Include Scripts,... immediate use in the “normal” world Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 467 08/04/2009 05:55:28 p.m chapter Importing and Exporting 7 Someday you’ll need to do something that’s beyond the drawing and typesetting capabilities of InDesign You’ll need to edit large amounts of text, adjust bitmap images, render 3-D objects, or create Web pages Other applications do these things better than InDesign does But you . - Spacing …and InDesign adjusts the spacing of text on curved line segments. Enter a value in the Spacing eld… Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 46 4Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf. exploration of InDesign s XML import and export features here; we’ll cover that in Chapter 14, “XML.” Importing and Exporting 7 Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 46 8Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf. the bottom of the Object Styles panel (press Creating Object Styles Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 45 3Real_ World_ Adobe_ InDesign_ CS4b.pdf 453 08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m.08/04/2009 05:55:26 p.m.