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[5: Learn CS5]
[with your host]
[Terry White]
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast.
My name is Terry White and, in this episode, we're going to take a look at five things--
five things--you may not know about InDesign CS5.
So it's going to be short and sweet:
just five random things that you may not know because they're cool features,
but may not be that discoverable if you're new to InDesign
or haven't been using CS5 for a long time.
So, let's dive right in.
The first thing I want to do is talk about a feature that's really not new,
but I know a lot of people would miss this because you don't think to do it;
and that is, InDesign has the ability to pull guides down
from the rulers, both horizontally and vertically--
and, by the way, to bring up your rulers, it's Command+R on a MAC
or Control+R on Windows.
But, let's say that I want to set up something
where I don't have to drag them all down individually;
so if I go up to my layout menu,
one of the things I can do is come down to Create Guides.
When I bring up Create Guides, I will actually bring up a menu option
that lets me dictate--and, not only dictate, but preview--
exactly how my structure is going to be.
So, for example, let's say that I wanted five rows
and I wanted two columns,
because maybe I'm going to lay out some business cards.
Just that simple, just that easy,
I can put in whatever measurements I want.
Right now, it's taking an account for the whole page.
If I wanted to limit it to the margin area, I can do that as well.
So you have your choice of how those measurements are going to be made
and even the ability to remove existing ruler guides
that you may have dragged out manually.
So that's your first tip--your first thing.
Now I'm going to go ahead and switch over to a different document.
We're going to go to No. 2, and No. 2 is really kind of--
it was actually a request from our art directors
and our Ad agency people
that were working on different products, like cars;
and, for example, if I click on this photo in the background,
and I were to flip it horizontally--
so now he's on the left, instead of the right-hand side--
well, for a magazine cover--no big deal.
But, for a product shot where they're wearing a logo,
or the back of a car, where it says the name of the car--
if you didn't notice that it was backwards--
that could be a disaster in your print job,
because you've printed all these photos where the type reads incorrectly.
So what InDesign will do for you, now,
is it will actually show you--this little icon letting you know--
that the current object has been flipped.
So, for example, if I flip it back, the "P" reads correctly.
But if were flipped any way, other than the standard way, this "P"
is a quick visual indicator letting me know that the photo has been flipped horizontally.
So, again, a little subtle thing--if you ever wonder what that "P" is for,
that's what it's for; it's to let you know that the photo's been flipped.
Now let's go to our third thing.
I'm going to go ahead and just grab my type tool here,
and I'm just going to create some text or a text frame out here on the paste board.
I'm just going to type the word "Hello."
We'll select the text--we can pick whatever font we want, but that's not important.
I'm just going to make it larger.
Now that I've made it larger, I can continue making it larger--now, let's see here--
with our "Greater Than" symbol; there we go.
Now that I've made it larger--that was Command+Shift+>
or on a PC: Control+Shift+>, which is above your "Period" key.
That's not a tip, but--what the tip is--well, that's not the tip--
what the tip is, is that I want to, now, make that type the same color as part of the photo;
so, one of the old tips from InDesign is that you can grab the eyedropper tool,
and the eyedropper tool will sample just about anything.
So, even if I come over here to her jacket and I click on the orange in her jacket,
it will actually change the type to be that color;
and also, you'll notice that the eyedropper has flipped around,
so I could drag it over other things that I wanted to be that color.
So, in other words, my eyedropper is loaded with that color,
and I can continue to use it throughout my publication, putting that color down.
However, I'm going to beg you to do something, though; and that is,
if you do make a color like that--by all means--
head over to your Swatches panel and add it as a swatch.
That way, you'll have complete control over it and you'll be able to use that swatch
on other things, as opposed to randomly making colors
that don't really exist anywhere else in the document.
You'll also notice that, since that photo was RGB, the color came in as RGB;
so that may present a problem for those of you doing color separations.
So you may need to go in and change it to a different color mode that suits your printing capabilities.
All right, so that was the third thing; now let's go to our fourth thing.
Let's go ahead and say that I wanted to create a frame,
but you'll notice that all my measurements for this document are in points and picas.
So if I go ahead and just click to bring up the rectangle settings or options
to dictate what size this box is going to be,
it's asking me to key it in in the measurement system for the document--
but I want to key it in in inches.
I want to make a business card that's 3½ inches wide by 2 inches tall,
so all I have to do is type in my "3.5" and put in "IN" for inches.
It knows to do the conversion for me;
2 IN, TAB out of it, and it knows to convert whatever I just typed in
in the measurement system of the document.
So, once again, no problem--
I can just type in wherever I am, in any setting, whatever measurement I want.
So, even if it had been in inches and I need to measure something differently--
maybe in points or picas--I can do that just by typing a "P".
All right--so, what's next?
The last thing we're going to talk about in this quick session is working in "Preview Mode"
and that is--for example, you notice how you can see all the guides, you can see the frame edges,
you can see everything--because right now, in the bottom of your tool panel,
we're on Normal Mode; that's what InDesign defaults to.
But you''ll also notice there's a Preview Mode,
and what Preview does is it turns off all the things that won't print.
So that way, for example, my "Hello" is going to disappear
because my "Hello" is on the paste board.
It's not on the actual page.
When I turn on Preview, the "Hello" is still there.
I can still work with it; I can bring it on to the page if I want,
but it turns off, from my display, all non-printing objects.
But the point is, it's not like "Print Preview" from back in the word processing days.
It's a preview mode that you can actually work in
so I can continue clicking, working, moving things around,
typing, doing all my features in InDesign;
but, again, if I were to drag out a ruler guide,
that ruler guide is going to disappear immediately because I'm in Preview Mode.
So you have to work in the mode that's appropriate for what you're trying to do,
but don't be afraid to work in Preview Mode--
just so you can see how the document's progressing
with the way it's actually going to print.
And, of course, if you hover over something
it will temporarily show your bounding boxes
and things that you can click on
so that you know something's there,
but it will not actually show it once you deselect that object or move off of it.
So that's five quick things
that you may not have known about InDesign CS5.
My name is Terry White
Thanks for watching.
And we'll catch you next time.