ID typesetting in graphic design is a super practical 29 skills, so hurry up and collect it!

Located in the field of professional vector typesetting software, it is also a new platform for the company's professional publishing plan.

Different from the high resource occupancy of PS or AI, ID has the characteristics of high accuracy and compatibility, and at the same time has the characteristics of low load, so the jam and software crash are no longer a design problem.

Skills of using ID

Adobe InDesign is a brand-new art typesetting program for architects, graphic designers, product packers and prepress experts. InDesign contains hundreds of functions upgraded to a new level, covering the creativity, accuracy, control and other functions that many typesetting software do not have today.

For example:

Optical edge alignment

High resolution EPS and PDF display

Hierarchical homepage

Multi-level redo and undo

Extensible multi-page support

The scaling ratio can be from 5% to 4000%.

In addition, InDesign bundles other popular products of Adobe, such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PressReady. Users who are familiar with PS or AI can learn InDesign quickly because they have the same shortcut keys. Designers can also use the built-in converter to import QuarkXPress(r) and Adobe PageMaker(r) files to realize the conversion between existing templates and main pages.

Many architects and architectural students need to typeset their works in the later stage of design and need ID software, but many students are not very familiar with the software.

Today, I will push you some questions and answers encountered in the use of ID software. I hope these can help students and designers who are using the software.

? 1. How do I edit text that overlaps with other objects? ?

Select a text tool, press [Ctrl/Command] key, click the position of the text box with the mouse, and the superimposed text box is selected. At this point, you can start editing directly, or press [Ctrl/Comman]+Y to edit in the article editor.

? 2. How to eliminate long articles on the editing page and keep scrolling back and forth? ?

Select the text box to edit, and press [Ctrl/Comman]+Y to bring up the editor of this long article, so that you can edit the text in this window without scrolling back and forth.

? 3. How to switch the status of characters and paragraphs on the control panel? ?

After selecting the text tool, the control panel will support the character and paragraph formatting functions in real time, but they will not be displayed at the same time. You need to press the "word" or "paragraph" button on the left side of the control panel to switch.

? 4. How to keep the original text when the text is converted into an outline? ?

Select the text to be framed, and press [Ctrl/Comman]+[Shift]+O to frame the selected text, but if you press [Alt] at the same time, a copy of the original text will be created at the same time. Users can delete the framed text, while the original text remains in its original position.

? 5. Is there any way to quickly turn the selection tool into a text tool? ?

Double-click the mouse on the text box with the selection tool to automatically switch the selection tool to the text tool.

? 6. How to quickly resize the text in the text box?

Select a text frame, and then press [Ctrl/Command]+[Shift]+[> ] or [ctrl/command]+[shift]+[> ] You can increase or decrease the text in the text box. Every time you press the text, the text will increase or decrease in increments of less than 2pt. If you press the [Alt] key at the same time, the change of text size is less than 10pt each time you press it.

? 7. How to fine-tune kerning with shortcut keys? ?

You can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to fine-tune the spacing between two characters. Press [Alt] key+left arrow key or right arrow key to increase or decrease the selected character spacing in increments of 20/ 1000em; If you press the [Ctrl/Command] key at the same time, the kerning will increase or decrease by the change of 100/ 1000em.

? 8. How to quickly adjust the line spacing? ?

Press [Alt]+ down arrow or up arrow to increase or decrease the line spacing of the selected text in increments of less than 2 points. If [Ctrl/Command] is pressed at the same time, the line spacing will increase or decrease by less than 10pt.

? 9. How to fill a blank text box with a paragraph of self-designed text as a fake word? ?

Sometimes in order to see the layout effect, some blank text boxes will be filled with fake words in advance. Select the "Fill in the wrong word" function under the text menu to fill in the selected blank text box with an English word. If you want to use a self-designed text paragraph as the default word to fill a blank text box, first save the text paragraph as a plain text document named Placeholder.txt, and then save the document in the installation directory of Adobe InDesign CS. Using Fill False Words again will fill the selected blank text box with your own preset text as false words.

? 10, how to quickly find used fonts in the current file? ?

Select the "Find Font" function under the "Text" menu, and the corresponding dialogue window will pop up. This window will list all font names used in the current file. If there are missing words in the font or the font is not installed in the system, a triangle with a black exclamation mark on a yellow background will be displayed after the font name. Users can choose another font to replace it.

? 1 1. Is there any way to hide the highlighted text? Restore to its Highligh state after doing other operations? ?

After Highlighing the text in the text box with the text tool, press the [Ctrl/Command] key, and the cursor of the text tool will become a selection tool icon, and the highlight status of the text will be hidden. At this point, you can adjust and move the text box or other frame by pressing the mouse. After releasing the [Ctrl/Command] key, you can display the highlighted state of the text again.

? 12. How to make path text? ?

Select Path Text Tool in the drop-down toolbar of the text tool, and then double-click the tool to open the Path Text Options dialog window, where you can select the desired effect, alignment and spacing. Selecting "Flip" means that the text is arranged along the path, otherwise the text is arranged on the surface of the path. You can use the Preview function to determine the desired effect. Press "OK" to close this window after setting, and click the path with the path text tool to start inputting text.

? 13. What is the function of "based on home page" when creating a new home page? ?

First, create a home page that represents the design of the whole publication, and other additional home pages are established based on this home page, that is, the original home page is the "parent" home page and the additional home page is the "child" home page. Any modification to the "parent" homepage can be applied to all the "child" homepages based on this homepage at the same time. There is no need to modify the "sub" homepage one by one. This is the origin of the "based on home page" option.

? 14. How to start the home page project? ?

Items on the home page cannot be edited when the page is in the state, and can only be started by pressing the [Ctrl/Command]+[Shift] keys at the same time, and then clicking the home page item on the page with the selection tool. If you want to start all home page items of the current page, you can select the option of "Start all home page items" in the page panel menu, or press the shortcut key [Ctrl/Command]+[Shift]+[Alt]+L.

? 15. What is the function of the navigator? ?

Select the option of "Show All Spanning Pages" in the menu of the navigator floating panel, and you can use the navigation itself to move back and forth between different pages, and quickly find the current object position for editing.

? 16, how to quickly change the unit of measurement?

Press the [Ctrl/Command] key under Mac system, click the ruler above the page with the mouse, right-click the ruler above the page under Win system, select the required unit in the pop-up unit of measurement, and then release the mouse to change the unit of measurement of the program.

? 17. How to resize the clipboard? ?

Press [Ctrl/Command]+K to bring up the preferences window. The Minimum Vertical Offset value in the clipboard options at the bottom of the Guides and Clipboard window is used to control the vertical size of the clipboard. The larger the value, the more white space there is at the top and bottom of the page, and vice versa.

? 18. What are the advantages of hiding the link panel? ?

It can speed up the running of the program. If a large number of linked drawings and documents are used in the file, it is recommended not to open the link panel for a long time, so as not to slow down the running speed of InDesign.

? 19. How can a long article automatically flow to the next linked text box? ?

Select the first linked text box and press [Alt] when placing the article. The cursor will turn into an inverted S-shaped arrow with a dotted line. Press the mouse to draw the first text box. After the placed article fills the first text box, continue to draw the following text boxes to complete the article, and these text boxes will automatically form a link relationship. This irrigation method is called semi-automatic irrigation. If you press the [Shift] key when placing a long article, you can automatically fill the article (that is, automatically add new pages and text boxes to fill the article).

? 20. How to preview the layout effect of the text in real time when resizing the text box? ?

Use the selection tool to select any control point on the four corners of the Chinese frame, hold down the mouse for two seconds, and when the cursor turns into a white double arrow, drag the text frame to resize it. At this point, the text in the text box will change its arrangement position in real time with the adjustment of the text box.

? 2 1. What is the function of "Paste in Place" in the edit menu? ?

After copying an object from one page, when you paste it to another page using the Paste In Place function, the position of the object on the new page is exactly the same as its original position.

? 22. When using the Place option under the File menu, if a frame has been selected, can I still choose to place the content without replacing the content in the current frame? ?

Selecting Replace Selected Item in the Place dialog box means that the content to be placed will replace the content in the selected frame, otherwise, a new frame will be built to place the placed content.

? 23. How to quickly switch between selection tools? ?

Press the shortcut key [V] to switch the current tool to "Select Tool" (black arrow in the toolbox), and press [A] to switch to "Directly Select Tool" (white arrow in the toolbox). Usually, the selection tool is used to edit the object, while the direct selection tool is used to edit the content. Note: If the current tool is a text tool and you are editing text, you cannot switch tools in this way.

? 24. How to temporarily change the current tool to the selected tool? ?

Press the [Ctrl/Comman] key to temporarily change the current tool to the selected tool (whether to select a tool or directly select a tool depends on the last use; If it is "direct selection tool", it will be temporarily changed to "direct selection tool"; Otherwise, it is the "selection tool"). If you press the [Tab] key again at the same time, you can switch back and forth between "Select Tool" and "Select Tool Directly".

? 25. Can the text tool temporarily switch to the selection tool? ?

Yes, after selecting a text tool (even if no objects on the layout are selected), when you press the [Ctrl/Command] key, the current tool will temporarily become the selected tool. At this point, when the mouse moves to any object on the layout, it will automatically become selected, and you can resize or move it. Release the [Ctrl/Command] key to return to the text tool.

? 26. How to copy objects quickly? ?

There are several ways to copy objects quickly:

1. Select the object to copy, and press [Ctrl/Command]+[Shift]+[Alt]+D to finish copying. Copy one at a time.

2. Select the object to copy, and press [Ctrl/Command]+[Shift]+V to open the "Paste Multiple" dialog window. Enter the number to be copied (i.e. the number of repetitions) in this window, and copy the horizontal and vertical offsets between objects. After confirmation, close this window to complete multiple copies of the selected objects.

3. Select an object with the selection tool, then press [Alt] and drag the original object with the mouse to copy.

? 27. How to deselect objects on the layout? ?

Press the shortcut key [Ctrl/Command]+[Shift]+[A] to deselect all objects in the layout.

? 28. How to select the following objects in the stacked object heap? ?

Press the [Ctrl/Command] key, click the top object with the selection tool, select the object placed in the second layer, click again, select the object in the third layer, and so on, until the object at the bottom is clicked again, and then it returns to the object at the top.

? 29. How to use the "free conversion tool" flexibly? ?

The Free Transform tool can adjust, move or rotate the selected object. If you use it to select any control point on the four sides (not corners) of the object box, and then press the [Ctrl/Command] key before dragging the mouse, you can become a miter tool.

I believe there are many friends who want to learn graphic design, and I hope it will help you with your study. You only need to write the word "learn" privately, and you can get some related material packages and learning materials of graphic design for free.