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Chapter 5: Working with Pages 155 FIGURE 5.9 The Layout Adjustment dialog box (with its default settings) Here are a few things to keep in mind if you decide to use InDesign’s Layout Adjustment feature: l If you change page size, the margin widths (the distance between the left and right mar- gins and the page edges) remain the same. l If you change page size, column guides and ruler guides are repositioned proportionally to the new size. l If you change the number of columns, column guides are added or removed accordingly. l If an object edge is aligned with a guideline before layout adjustment, it remains aligned with the guideline after adjustment. If two or more edges of an object are aligned with guidelines, the object is resized so that the edges remain aligned with the guidelines after layout adjustment. l If you change the page size, objects are moved so that they’re in the same relative position on the new page. l If you’ve used margin, column, and ruler guides to place objects on pages, layout adjust- ments are more effective than if you’ve placed objects or ruler guides randomly on pages. l Check for text reflow when you modify a document’s page size, margins, or column guides. Decreasing a document’s page size can cause text to overflow a text frame whose dimensions have been reduced. l Check everything in your document after the adjustment is complete. Take the time to look over every page of your document. You never know what InDesign has actually done until you see it with your own eyes. Tip If you decide to enable layout adjustment for a particular publication, you may want to begin by using the Save As command (choose File ➪ Save As or press Shift+Ô+S or Ctrl+Shift+S) to create a copy. That way, if you ever need to revert back to the original version, you can simply open the original document. n 12_607169-ch05.indd 15512_607169-ch05.indd 155 4/22/10 7:48 PM4/22/10 7:48 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Part II: Document Fundamentals 156 Summary If you’re working on a multipage document, you want to display the Pages panel. It lets you add, move, and delete document pages as well as adjust the size of individual pages and create multi- page spreads called gatefold spreads. If you’re working on a long document with multiple parts and want to number each part sepa- rately, you can create sections to manage these multiple page-numbering schemes within the docu- ment. You can also have InDesign automatically add the correct page numbers for folios and continued lines, as well as section names in folios and other text. As you work on a long document, you can use the Pages panel to target a specific page or spread in the document window; to select multiple pages or spreads so that you can move, modify, or delete them collectively; and to navigate from page to page in a multipage document. InDesign provides visual indicators that let you know whether pages contain transparent objects, have their views rotated, or have page transition effects applied. You can also rotate page views and apply transition effects with the Pages panel and related Layout ➪ Page submenus. A new capability lets you apply color labels to pages as a mnemonic aid. If you decide to change the layout of a publication after you’ve started work, you can use the Layout Adjustment feature to automatically adjust the size and position of objects and guidelines when you change the document’s page size, margins, or columns. 12_607169-ch05.indd 15612_607169-ch05.indd 156 4/22/10 7:48 PM4/22/10 7:48 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 157 CHAPTER Working with Layers IN THIS CHAPTER Understanding layers Creating and managing layers Working with objects on layers P ublishers seem to spend a lot of time doing variations of the same things: creating several different versions of the same ad for different markets or flowing text in another language into a design. The goal of software is to automate the predictable so that you have more time for cre- ativity. Toward this goal, InDesign provides a method for preserving the time you put into creating and editing a layout that is used for more than one purpose: layers. If you’ve ever seen a series of clear plastic overlays in presentations, under- standing layers is easy. In one of those old overhead presentations, the teacher might have started with one overlay containing a graphic and then added another overlay with descriptive text, and then added a third overlay containing a chart. Each overlay contained distinct content, but you could see through each one to the others to get the entire message. InDesign’s lay- ers are somewhat like this, letting you isolate content on slices of a docu- ment. You can then show and hide layers, lock objects on layers, rearrange layers, and more. Each document contains a default layer, Layer 1, which contains all your objects until you select and create a new layer. Objects on the default layer — and any other layer, for that matter — follow the standard stacking order of InDesign. (The first object you create is the backmost object, the last one you create is the frontmost, and all the other objects fall somewhere in between. See Chapter 13 for detailed information about stacking orders.) As with the clear plastic overlays, the order of the layers also affects the stacking order of the objects. Objects on the bottom layer are behind other 13_607169-ch06.indd 15713_607169-ch06.indd 157 4/22/10 7:49 PM4/22/10 7:49 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Part II: Document Fundamentals 158 objects, and objects on the top layer are in front of other objects. In Figure 6.1, the Default layer contains the business card’s standard graphics and the main text. Two additional layers contain different sets of contact information, in separate text frames, for different people. FIGURE 6.1 A business card with different layers for each person’s card. The graphics common to all cards are on their own layer (Default). Eye icon (indicates visible layers and objects) Lock icon (indicates locked layers and objects) Pen icon (indicates the active layer) Layer icon (indicates the layer the selected object is on) Delete Selected Layers Create New Layer Object icon (indicates the selected object) Although layers are often compared to plastic overlays, there’s one big difference: Layers are not specific to individual pages. Each layer encompasses the entire document, which doesn’t make much difference when you’re working on a 1-page ad but makes a significant difference when it comes to a 16-page newsletter. Layers help you enforce the stacking order of your page elements, making it easier to manage them. Layers are essential to grouping chunks of similar elements that can be altered quickly. 13_607169-ch06.indd 15813_607169-ch06.indd 158 4/22/10 7:49 PM4/22/10 7:49 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Chapter 6: Working with Layers 159 The Layers panel (choose Window ➪ Layers or press F7) is your gateway to creating and manipu- lating layers. Its controls are mostly iconic, but, as with other panels, when tool tips are turned on via the Tool Tips pop-up menu in the Interface panel of the Preferences dialog box, you can learn what controls do by pointing at them. (Choose InDesign ➪ Preferences ➪ Interface or press Ô+K on the Mac, or choose Edit ➪ Preferences ➪ Interface or press Ctrl+K in Windows.) If you know what the controls do, you can intuit a great deal of how to work with layers. The layers feature is one that many users ignore. It’s true that if you never looked at the Layers panel, you could continue to do your work in InDesign, but that would be a mistake. So take a look at the possibili- ties and see whether they fit into your workflow. In the long run, using layers can save you time and help you prevent mistakes that can result when you need to track changes across multiple documents. Say you’ve created an ad with the same copy in it but a different headline and image for each city where the ad runs. You can place the boilerplate information on one layer and the information that changes on other layers. If any of the boilerplate information changes, you only need to change it once. To print different versions of the ad, you control what layers print. You might use layers in the following situations: l A project with a high-resolution background image: For example, a background such as a texture might take a long time to redraw. You can hide that layer while designing other ele- ments and then show it occasionally to see how it works with the rest of the design. l A document that you produce in several versions: For example, a produce ad may have dif- ferent prices for different cities, or a clothing catalog may feature different coats depending on the climate in each area. You can place the content that changes on separate layers and then print the layers you need. l A project that includes objects you don’t want to print: If you want to suppress printout of objects for any reason, the only way you can do this is to place them on a layer and hide the layer. You might have a layer used for nothing but adding editorial and design comments, which you can delete when the document is final. (Even though InDesign supports nonprint- ing notes, you can insert them only into text; therefore, having a design-comments layer is still useful to be able to make annotations for frames, images, and other nontextual elements.) l A publication translated into several languages: Depending on the layout, you can place all the common objects on one layer and then create a different layer for each language’s text. Changes to the common objects need to happen only once — in contrast to if you created copies of the original document and flowed the translated text into the copies. l To experiment with different layouts of the same document: You can show and hide layers to present different options to your supervisor or client. This strategy lets you use common elements, such as the logo and legal information, in several versions of the same design. continued When, Where, and Why to Use Layers 13_607169-ch06.indd 15913_607169-ch06.indd 159 4/22/10 7:49 PM4/22/10 7:49 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Part II: Document Fundamentals 160 Creating layers Each document contains a default layer, Layer 1, which contains all the objects you place on mas- ter pages and document pages — until you create and activate new layers. You can create as many layers as you need. After you create a new layer, it’s activated automatically so that you can begin working on it. New Feature InDesign CS5’s Layers panel now works like Illustrator’s and Photoshop’s: You can hide and reveal the objects on each layer, as well as hide and reveal the individual objects within a group on each layer. That lets you work with individual items in terms of locking and hiding them, as well as moving them among layers. You can also change individual objects’ stacking order (see Chapter 13) by dragging them within their layer in the Layers panel. n The Layers panel (choose Window ➪ Layers or press F7) provides several methods for creating new layers. It doesn’t matter what document page is open when you create a layer because the layer encompasses all the pages in the document. To create a layer, do one of the following: l To create a new layer above the selected layer, click the Create New Layer iconic button on the Layers panel to get the New Layer dialog box. The layer gets the default name of Layer x. continued l A complex design with overlapping objects, text wraps, and grouped objects: Imagine the background of a page consists of a checkerboard pattern made up of filled, rectangular frames. You don’t want to accidentally select the blocks while you’re working with other objects. If you isolate complex objects on their own layer, you can show only that layer to work on it, hide that layer to concentrate on other layers, lock the layer so that you can’t select objects, and otherwise manipulate the layer. l To create bulletproof templates: Locked layers are a great way to decrease the possibility of items in a template being moved or deleted. Move all the objects you don’t want moved or deleted on a layer and lock the layer. Although you can unlock the layer, a locked layer keeps the people who use the template from accidentally moving or removing anything too quickly. l To ensure that folios and the like are never overprinted: Placing folios (the document’s page numbers, running headings, and so on) on their own layer, uppermost in the layer stack, ensures that other objects never accidentally obscure them. l To help text print properly over transparent elements: Layers are useful to isolate text above other objects with transparency effects. This avoids the rasterizing of text during output to plate or film — something that can make the text quality look poor. When determining whether objects should go on a layer, remember that layers are document-wide and not page-specific. 13_607169-ch06.indd 16013_607169-ch06.indd 160 4/22/10 7:49 PM4/22/10 7:49 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Chapter 6: Working with Layers 161 l To create a layer below the selected layer, Ô+click or Ctrl+click the Create New Layer iconic button. The layer gets the default name of Layer x. l To create a new layer above the selected layer and customize its name and identifying color, Option+click or Alt+click the Create New Layer iconic button, or choose New Layer from the flyout menu. Use the New Layer dialog box to specify options for the layer, as described shortly. (The New Layer dialog box — set with a custom name and color — is shown in Figure 6.2.) l To create a new layer above all existing layers, Shift+Ô+click or Ctrl+Shift+click the Create New Layer iconic button. New Feature InDesign CS5 changes what the modifier keys such as Ô and Ctrl do when you click the Layers panel’s Create New Layer iconic button. If you use these modifier keys a lot when working with layers, you need to relearn what they do in InDesign CS5. n You can create a layer while a master page is displayed. Objects you create on a layer while a mas- ter page is displayed are placed on all pages based on that master page. However, the layer is not specific to that master page. It is available for all document pages — even those based on other master pages — and you can place objects on it. FIGURE 6.2 The New Layer dialog box Tip To change a layer’s settings, double-click it or choose Layer Options for name of layer from the flyout menu to display the Layer Options dialog box. n Whether you’re using the New Layer dialog box shown in Figure 6.2 or the nearly identical Layer Options dialog box, the customization options work the same: l Name field: Type a descriptive name for the layer. For example, if you’re using layers for multilingual publishing, you might have a U.S. English layer, a French layer, and a German layer. If you’re using layers so that you can hide background objects while you’re working, you might have a Background Objects layer. 13_607169-ch06.indd 16113_607169-ch06.indd 161 4/22/10 7:49 PM4/22/10 7:49 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Part II: Document Fundamentals 162 l Color pop-up menu and button: A layer’s color helps you identify what layer an object is on. The color appears to the left of the layer name in the Layers panel and appears on each object on that layer. The color is applied to frame edges, selection handles, bounding boxes, text ports, and text wraps. Note that the display of frame edges is controlled by choosing View ➪ Extras ➪ Show/Hide Frame Edges or pressing Control+Ô+H or Ctrl+H. By default, InDesign applies a different color to each new layer, but you can customize it to something meaningful for your document and workflow. Choose a color from the list or double-click the color swatch to use from the operating system’s color picker. Cross-Reference I cover the other layer manipulation features in these dialog boxes later in this chapter. n Working with individual objects on layers Whether you’re designing a magazine template from the ground up or modifying an existing ad, you can isolate specific types of objects on layers. You can create objects on a layer, move objects to a layer, or copy objects to a layer. Keep in mind that a layer (or object) must be visible for you to work on it. If a layer or object is visible, the eye icon appears in the first column of the Layers panel, as Figure 6.1 shows. If the col- umn’s box for that layer or object is blank, the layer or object is hidden. Click the box to toggle between showing and hiding the layer or object. To work with a layer and its objects, they must not be locked. If a layer or object is locked, a lock icon appears in the second column in the Layers panel, as Figure 6.1 shows. If the column’s box for that layer or object is blank, the layer or object is unlocked. Click the box to toggle between locking and unlocking the layer or object. Note that you cannot lock or unlock individual objects within a group, just the entire group. Note To see the objects (including groups) in a layer, or the objects within a group, click the reveal control (the right-facing triangle icon to the left of the layer name). It turns into the hide control (the down-pointing triangle icon), which if clicked hides the layer’s or group’s objects and turns back into the reveal control. n Tip You can change the default names assigned to groups and objects by clicking the name in the Layers panel, waiting for a second, clicking it again, and then entering your preferred name. n The active layer The active layer is the one on which you’re creating objects — whether you’re using tools, import- ing text or graphics, clicking and dragging objects in from a library, or pasting objects from other layers or other documents. A pen icon to the right of a layer’s name means it’s the active one (refer to Figure 6.1). Although you can select more than one layer at a time, only one layer can be active. 13_607169-ch06.indd 16213_607169-ch06.indd 162 4/22/10 7:49 PM4/22/10 7:49 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Chapter 6: Working with Layers 163 To switch the active layer to another layer, click to the right of the layer name that you want to be active; the pen icon moves, making that the new active layer. Note Regardless of what layer is the active layer, you can select, move, and modify objects on any visible, unlocked layer. You can even select objects on different layers and manipulate them. n Selecting objects on layers The Layers panel helps you work with selected objects in the following ways: l To determine to what layer an object belongs, match the color on its bounding box, han- dles, and so on, to a color to the left of a layer name. l To determine what layers contain active objects, look to the right of the layer names. A small box — the layer icon — next to a layer name (refer to Figure 6.1) indicates that it contains an active object. (The object icon, also shown in Figure 6.1, indicates what spe- cific objects are selected.) l To select all the objects on a layer, Option+click or Alt+click the layer’s name in the Layers panel. The layer must be active, unlocked, and visible. (Likewise, Option+click or Alt+click an object within a group to select all the objects in that group.) Tip To select master-page objects as well as document-page objects on a layer, you need to Option+Shift+click or Alt+Shift+click the layer name. n Placing objects on layers To place objects on a layer, the layer must be active as indicated by the pen icon. To place objects on the layer, use any of these options: l Use any tools to create paths and frames. l Use the Place command (choose File ➪ Place or press Ô+D or Ctrl+D) to import graphics or text. l Use the Paste command (choose Edit ➪ Paste or press Ô+V or Ctrl+V) to paste objects from the Clipboard onto the layer. l Click and drag objects to the layer from a library or another document. Note When you create objects on master pages, they are placed on the default layer and are therefore behind other objects on document pages. To create objects on master pages that are in front of other objects, place the objects on a different layer while the master page is displayed. n 13_607169-ch06.indd 16313_607169-ch06.indd 163 4/22/10 7:49 PM4/22/10 7:49 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Part II: Document Fundamentals 164 You can cut and paste objects from one page to another but have the objects remain on their origi- nal layer — without concern about the active layer. To do this, choose Paste Remembers Layers in the Layers panel’s flyout menu so that a check mark appears to its left before pasting any objects. (The Paste Remembers Layers setting remains in effect until you choose the flyout menu option again, which makes the check mark disappear.) You might do this if you’re moving the continua- tion of an article from one page to another but you want the text to remain on the same layer. For example, if you’re working on a multilingual document with separate layers for English, French, and Spanish text, using Paste Remembers Layers ensures that text frames cut or copied from the French layer are pasted onto the French layer on the new location. Moving objects to different layers After an object is on a layer, it isn’t stuck there. You can copy and paste objects to selected layers, or you can move them using the Layers panel. When you move an object to a layer, it’s placed in front of all other objects on a layer. To select multiple objects, remember to Shift+click them and then move them in one of the following ways: l Paste objects on a different layer: First cut or copy objects to the Clipboard. Activate the layer on which you want to put the objects and then use the Paste command (choose Edit ➪ Paste or press Ô+V or Ctrl+V). This method works well for moving objects that are currently on a variety of layers. l Move objects to a different layer: Click and drag the active objects’ object icon (to the right of a layer’s name) to another layer. When you use this method, it doesn’t matter what layer is active. However, you can’t move objects from multiple layers to a single layer using this method. (If you select multiple objects that reside on different layers, dragging the icon moves only objects that reside on the first layer on which you selected an object.) Also, you can’t move individual objects within a group to another layer; you have to move the group instead. l Move objects to a hidden or locked layer: Press and hold Ô or Ctrl while you click and drag the active objects’ object icon. l Copy rather than move objects to a different layer: Press and hold Option or Alt while you click and drag the active objects’ object icon. l Copy objects to a hidden or locked layer: Press and hold Option+Ô or Ctrl+Alt while you drag the active objects’ object icon. Tip After designing a new template, you might realize that it would be easier to work with if you had isolated cer- tain objects on layers. You can create new layers and then move objects to them at this point. Just make sure the layers are in the same stacking order as the original objects. n 13_607169-ch06.indd 16413_607169-ch06.indd 164 4/22/10 7:49 PM4/22/10 7:49 PM Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. [...]... and then save it with a new name, making sure that InDesign CS5 Document is selected in the Format pop-up menu (Mac) or Save as Type pop-up menu (Windows) — this is the default setting Work on your document and continue to save changes normally New Feature InDesign CS5 gets rid of the File ➪ New ➪ Document from Template menu option, introduced in InDesign CS3 That option was a complicated way to create... of a document, it’s not a bad idea to add the word Template to the file name, if possible It lets whoever uses the file quickly know its purpose 3 On a Mac, choose InDesign CS5 Template in the Format pop-up menu; on a PC, choose InDesign CS5 Template from the Save As Type pop-up menu 4 Click Save to close the Save As dialog box and save the template Tip If you’re designing a template that others will... repetitive work of placing the same items one by one on each and every document page Note Note that InDesign s menu options and other interfaces sometimes switch between master page and master spread based on which is selected, but the steps are the same even if I say page and InDesign shows spread n By default, every InDesign document you create contains a master page Whether you use the master page or create... of frequently used objects — house ads, corporate logos, boilerplate text, and so on l As its name suggests, a library is a place where you store things Specifically, InDesign libraries are files for storing objects that you create in InDesign and that you intend to use repeatedly in multiple documents l A style is a collection of formatting attributes that you can then apply to items to ensure consistency... instead of a specific object on that layer, all its objects are hidden; if you move a layer up, all its objects appear in front of objects on lower layers Note When working with the Layers panel, InDesign CS5 gives you much richer control when manipulating entire layers than the groups and objects within them In the Layers panel, you can simply hide/unhide, lock/unlock, and change the stacking order... Importing a master page Sometimes another document has a master page that you’d like to use in your current layout InDesign lets you import those master pages: Just choose Load Master Pages from the Pages panel’s flyout menu and then select the source document in the dialog box that appears InDesign imports all master pages from that document into your current one There’s no way to select specific master... of renaming the imported master pages, so you keep what you have and add the imported ones InDesign does the renaming for you, using the next available default name For example, if your current document has master pages A-Master and B-Master already defined, it renames the imported A-Master to C-Master Note that InDesign also alerts you if the imported master pages use different dimensions than the current... the same approach for building both master and document pages Some designers prefer to do a preliminary sketch on paper and then re-create the design in InDesign You may like to do your creative brainstorming at your computer, in which case you can use InDesign as your sketchpad The main difference between document pages and master pages is that master pages don’t contain any content (other than elements... between columns) FIGURE 7.3 The Margins and Columns dialog box When placing text elements on master pages, you may want to use placeholder text instead of actual text InDesign makes it easy to do so: Just choose Type ➪ Fill with Placeholder Text InDesign adds fake Latin text to the text frame until it is filled In some cases, you want to add your own placeholder text For example, if you produce a monthly... are highlighted, as shown in the right side of Figure 7.5, release the mouse button Getting InDesign to select the entire spread can be tricky: You need to move the icon to just outside (vertically) and just inside (horizontally) a corner of a spread for the spread rather than an individual page to be highlighted InDesign also lets you apply a master page to multiple document pages in a single operation . activated automatically so that you can begin working on it. New Feature InDesign CS5 s Layers panel now works like Illustrator’s and Photoshop’s: You can. Shift+Ô+click or Ctrl+Shift+click the Create New Layer iconic button. New Feature InDesign CS5 changes what the modifier keys such as Ô and Ctrl do when you click