Adobe InDesign’s Object Styles allow you to quickly format attributes such as fill, stroke, transparency and shadow to any object, including type. The purpose of this tool is to help you maintain a consistency to specific objects throughout your yearbook.
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If it is time to upgrade your software, Adobe CS4 is waiting for you. Although it comes only 18 months after CS3, CS4 has a few cool InDesign updates that should increase productivity and improve graphics capabilities.
Deutsch Inc., Grant Design Collaborative, Walmart, the London Daily Telegraph, the Washington Post, MacDesign, and Macy’s West are just some of the companies worldwide using InDesign.
Robb DeFilippis, senior vice president, director of print services at advertising firm Deutsch Inc., New York, agreed that students will benefit from knowing how to use InDesign when they go job hunting.
Using InDesign, you can create great effects for the images in your yearbook. Use curled page edges to create a three-dimensional, page-turning effect in InDesign.
The idea for this article came about one day when searching for an alternative to using parenthesis in a document. Someone told me they represented a whisper to the audience, and if I needed to whisper something then it might not be worth saying. Personally, I tend to skip over anything in parenthesis, thinking it is usually data not essential to the paragraph I am reading.
You can divide circles and insert images for an interesting way to add more photos to a spread.
1. Draw a perfect circle. Hold down the Shift key while drawing to make it proportional, or use the width and height (W and H fields) in the Control Bar to make it perfectly round. Consider using whole numbers for the width and height so it will be easier to do the math later.
“Lift” images off your page. You can create different versions of this effect by experimenting with elements of various sizes, gradients and feathering.
Orphans and widows are words that are less than a line of copy left at the bottom or top of a column, respectively. Both InDesign CS2 and CS3 have line settings that allow you to prevent widows and orphans.
One day, page submission via shipment will be as obsolete as page paste-up. While transitions to new methods can be scary, the switch to online PDF submission should not be. PDFs offer advantages, such as complete control over yearbook pages, no missing links and no shipping. Two yearbook advisers found other perks.
Most everyone is familiar with Find/Change to correct misspellings and search for word references. But in InDesign, the tool has broader applications, such as type formatting and styles. Here is an example of using Find/Change to make a style consistent throughout documents.
