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INDESIGN 11-28 Exploring Advanced Techniques Apply nested styles 1. Click the Type Tool if necessary, click to the immediate right of the colon after the word Wrath, click Type on the menu bar, point to Insert Special Character, then click End Nested Style Here. TIP Enlarge your document view if necessary. The special character is invisible, so you won’t see any change to the text. 2. Using the same method, insert the End Nested Style Here special character after the colons in items 2–4. 3. Double-click Body Copy in the Paragraph Styles palette, then click the Preview check box in the bottom-left corner. 4. Click Drop Caps and Nested Styles on the left, then click New Nested Style. 5. Click the [None] text that is highlighted in the Nested Styles section, then click Number. 6. Click the word Words, then type a period (.) to replace Words, so that your dialog box resembles Figure 45. The Number character style will be applied through the first period in each entry. TIP If necessary, move the dialog box to the side so that you can see the format changes as they are applied to the text. (continued) FIGURE 45 Formatting a nested style Lesson 4 Work with Nested Styles INDESIGN 11-29 7. Click New Nested Style, click the [None] list arrow, then click Title. 8. Click the word Words once, then note the format changes to the text on the page. TIP The Title character style is applied to the first word only, because the nested style specifies to do so. 9. Click the Words list arrow, click End Nested Style Character, then press [Enter] (Win) or [return] (Mac) to execute the change. As shown in Figure 46, the Title character style is applied to all the words up to the inserted special character End Nested Style Here. 10.Click OK, save your work, then close Nested Styles. You applied two character styles to four para- graphs simultaneously by using nested styles. FIGURE 46 Formatting a nested style through to the first colon FIGURE 47 New Object Style dialog box FIGURE 48 Formatting a fill for an object style LESSON 5 What You’ll Do INDESIGN 11-30 Exploring Advanced Techniques WORK WITH Working With Object Styles The new Object Style dialog box, shown in Figure 47, allows you to specify a variety of formatting choices for graphics frames and text frames; they are very similar to character and paragraph styles. The New Object Style dialog box is straightforward, intuitive, and easy to incorporate into your day-to-day work with InDesign. First, you create and name a new style. Then, you specify formats for that style using the categories listed on the left. Let’s say you are designing a layout for a book and you plan to have a large color bar running along the edge of the book, like the gold columns used for the exercises in this book. With object styles, you can spec- ify the formats for that color bar—the fill and stroke color, the transparency, a drop shadow etc.—directly in the New Object Style dialog box. In Figure 48, a style called Sidebar has been created. Note that on the left, Fill has been selected. The right side of the In this lesson, you’ll use the new Object Styles palette and the New Object Style dialog box to quickly format and apply styles to graphics frames and text frames. ▼ Formating categories Fill category selected Swatch list from Swatches palette OBJECT SYLES Lesson 5 Work with Object Styles INDESIGN 11-31 dialog box shows all of the options for the Fill and Stroke that you want to specify for the style. In this case, a swatch named Gold has been selected for the fill, and it will fill the object as an 80% tint. Black has been chosen as the stroke color. Figure 49 shows Drop Shadow specifica- tions for the same style. Note that the shadow color is specified as a dark blue. These are just some of the many formats that you can specify in the New Object Style dialog box. And don’t make the mistake that they are used only for design elements like drop shadows or color bars. Object Styles are useful for the most basic tasks. For example, let’s say you were doing a lay- out for a book that featured 3-column text on the left pages and 2-column text on the right pages. As shown in Figure 50, you can click the Text Frame General Options category and simply enter the number of columns you want for a given style. Create one style for a 3-column text frame and another for a 2-column text frame. That’s it. You won’t need to specify those formats again, not even if your book is a thousand pages. You’ll sim- ply make a text frame and click whichever of the two styles you want to apply. Applying and Editing Object Styles Once you’ve created an object style, the named style is listed in the Object Styles palette, shown in Figure 51. Select an object on the page—a text frame, a graphics frame, or a shape that you cre- ated with the Pen tool—then click the object style in the palette that you want to use. All of the formatting that is speci- fied as the style will be applied to the selected object. The power of object styles is not limited to applying them to objects. In many ways, they are even more powerful when you FIGURE 49 Formatting a drop shadow for an object style Drop Shadow & Feather category selected Drop Shadow options from Drop Shadow dialog box FIGURE 50 Formatting a text frame for an object style Text Frame General Options category selected Formatting options from Text Frame Options dialog box want to edit them. Making the edit couldn’t be easier. Simply double-click the style in the Object Styles palette that you want to edit. This will open the New Object Style dialog box, where you can make as many changes to the style as you like. It’s when you click that OK button that the magic happens: With that one click, every object in your document that uses that object style will update to reflect the changes you made. Using that gold sidebar as an example again, imagine that you have a book—like this book—that has hundreds of pages with a gold sidebar formatted with an object style. Let’s say that you are told that the layout must change and the gold sidebars must change to light blue. You can simply edit the object style—change its fill to light blue—and hundreds of pages will update and change to light blue. Now, imagine the same scenario, then imagine that you didn’t use an object style to format those hundreds and hundreds of gold sidebars. INDESIGN 11-32 Exploring Advanced Techniques FIGURE 51 Object Styles Palette Object styles Palette list arrow Create new style Lesson 5 Work with Object Styles INDESIGN 11-33 Format design elements as an object style 1. Create a new letter-sized document using default document settings, then save it as Introducing Object Styles. 2. Create a new CMYK Swatch in the Swatches palette that is named Gold, specify its colors as C=11, M=0, Y=80, K=11, then click OK. TIP All the named swatches that you create and add to the Swatches palette will be avail- able to be used as part of an object style. 3. Click Window on the menu bar, then click Object Styles. The Object Styles palette opens. 4. Click the Object Styles palette list arrow, then click New Object Style. The New Object Style dialog box opens. 5. Type Sidebar in the Style Name text box, then click Fill in the left column. 6. In the Fill section on the right, click Gold from the swatches list, drag the Tint Slider to 60%, then click the Black Stroke icon. Note that the Stroke category is now selected in the left column. 7. Format the stroke as 3 pt. Black, then click Drop Shadow & Feather in the left column. 8. Click the check box beside Drop Shadow in the section on the right to activate the drop shadow, change its color to the Royal blue swatch (C=100, M=90, Y=10, K=0), then compare your dialog box to Figure 52. 9. Click OK, then save your work. A style named Sidebar is listed in the Object Styles palette. You created a new object style, then specified its Fill color tint percentage, Stroke color, and Drop Shadow. FIGURE 52 Formatting the drop shadow component of the Sidebar object style INDESIGN 11-34 Exploring Advanced Techniques FIGURE 53 Modifying an object that has been formatted with an object style + sign beside object style name indicates that the object has been modified from the style it is based upon. Apply an object style 1. Click None in the Object Styles palette, then click the Default Fill and Stroke icon in the Tools palette. 2. Click the Rectangle Tool, then draw a rec- tangle anywhere on the page. 3. Click Sidebar in the Object Styles palette. The style that you created is applied. 4. Note that the Tint value in the Swatches palette reads 60—the tint that you specified in the object style. 5. Drag the Tint slider to 100. As shown in Figure 53, the rectangle’s fill changes to 100% gold and a + sign appears beside the style name in the Object Styles palette, indicating that the style has been modified. 6. Create a new rectangle on the page, then click Sidebar in the Object Styles palette. The new rectangle is filled with 60% Gold, the format that was specified in the object style. 7. Delete both rectangles, then save your work. You applied a style to a frame, then modified the fill color in the frame. You then created a new frame, noting that the style was applied as it was formatted in the New Object Style dialog box. Format text frame options as an object style 1. Click the Object Styles palette list arrow, then click New Object Style. The New Object Style dialog box opens. 2. Type 4 Column in the Style Name text box, then click Text Frame General Options in the left column. (continued) Lesson 5 Work with Object Styles INDESIGN 11-35 3. Uncheck all the other boxes in the left col- umn so that only Text Frame General options is checked and selected. You do not want to apply any of the other types of formatting to this object style; we are interested only in specifying the number of columns. 4. In the Column section on the right, type 4 in the Number text box, then click OK. 5. Create a new object style, then name it 2 Column. 6. Uncheck all the boxes in the left column except Text Frame General Options, click Text Frame General Options, specify the number of columns as 2, then click OK. As shown in Figure 54, the two new styles that you created are listed in the Object Styles palette. 7. Click [Basic Text Frame] in the Object Styles palette, click the Type tool, then draw a large text frame on the page. 8. Click the Selection Tool, then click 2 Column in the Object Styles palette. 9. Click 4 Column in the Object Styles palette. 10.Double-click 4 Column in the Object Styles palette, change its name to 3 Column, change the number value to 3, then click OK. As shown in Figure 55, both the text frame and the Object Styles palette are updated with the changes. 11.Save your work, then close the document. You formatted text frame options for two object styles, then applied each to a text frame. You then modified a style and noted how the text frame on the page automatically updated to reflect the changes. FIGURE 54 Viewing two styles in the Object Styles palette Two new styles FIGURE 55 Viewing modifications to an object style and the object to which it was applied CHAPTER SUMMARY CHAPTER SUMMARY In this chapter, you explored some of the advanced features of InDesign. You started with the Pathfinder palette, where you used a number of pathfinders such as add, subtract, minus front/back, and intersect to create new objects and mod- ify existing objects quickly and efficiently. You moved on to the Stroke Styles palette. Here, you furthered your knowl- edge of strokes by learning how to create and modify dashed, dotted, and striped strokes. You used your understanding of spot colors and the Swatches palette to learn how to use the Mixed Ink features of InDesign. You created a mixed ink swatch and a mixed ink group, and learned how to edit mixed ink groups. Finally, you worked with two types of styles: nested styles and object styles. With nested styles, you explored InDesign’s powerful ability to apply multiple styles to a single block of text. With object styles, you explored one of the new InDesign CS2 features: the ability to name and save for- matting choices that you can then apply to text frames and graphics frames. What You Have Learned • How to use the Pathfinder palette • How to create a dashed stroke style • How to create a dotted stroke style • How to create a striped stroke style • About the need for mixed inks • How to create a mixed ink swatch • How to create a mixed ink group • How to edit mixed ink groups • About nested styles • How to apply nested styles • About the new object styles feature • How to apply object styles Key Terms Dashed strokes Strokes that consist of a series of dashes and gaps. Dotted strokes Strokes that consist of a series of dots and gaps. Striped strokes Strokes that consist of a two or more horizontal strokes with gaps in between. Mixed ink InDesign uses this term to refer to swatches that are created by mix- ing a spot ink with a process ink or another spot ink. Mixed ink swatches must include at least one spot ink. A mixed ink swatch is most often created from one process and one spot ink. Mixed ink group An array of mixed ink swatches that is generated simultaneously. Nested styles Paragraph styles in which two or more character styles are “nested” within the paragraph style. Object Styles Like paragraph styles or character styles, named and saved format- ting attributes, but are applied to objects such as graphics frames or text frames. Parent swatch When a mixed ink group is generated, a parent swatch is generated and appears in the Swatches palette. The parent swatch is named with whatever name you entered when creat- ing the mixed ink group. INDESIGN 11-36 Exploring Advanced Techniques [...]... comes time to output a document—to print it, to export it, or to send it to a printer or service bureau—you will be impressed with the many well-thoughtout options that InDesign makes available for this critical phase of production InDesign comes complete with all the industry-standard printer’s marks that you would expect from a professional layout application Crop marks, bleed marks, color bars,... Package commands automate these all-important steps in the production process Rather than print, you might want to export a document You’ll find that InDesign offers all of the file formats that you need and expect Export a document as a PDF, which opens easily in Adobe Acrobat You can export a selected item— or the whole layout—as a JPEG image, handy for Web viewing And if you want to manipulate a layout... 10" magazine may be printed on a page that is 12" × 14", but it will be trimmed to 8" × 10" In this lesson, you will create bleed and slug areas, and then you will output a document with printer’s marks INDESIGN 12-4 You might be surprised to find that documents are often printed on paper that is larger than the document’s trim size, but that extra space is used to accommodate bleeds, crops, and other . nested styles, you explored InDesign s powerful ability to apply multiple styles to a single block of text. With object styles, you explored one of the new InDesign CS2 features: the ability to. and preview color separations. 3. Preflight and package a document. 4. Export a document. ADOBE INDESIGN CS2 PREPARING, PACKAGING, AND EXPORTING DOCUMENTS 12 chapter When it comes time to output. of gold sidebars. INDESIGN 11-32 Exploring Advanced Techniques FIGURE 51 Object Styles Palette Object styles Palette list arrow Create new style Lesson 5 Work with Object Styles INDESIGN 11-33 Format