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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

By : Andy Gardiner
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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

4.6 (10)
By: Andy Gardiner

Overview of this book

Adobe InDesign is the leading desktop publishing and layout software for producing brochures, magazines, flyers, books, posters, and a wide range of digital documents. It allows you to rapidly draft your documents with precise control over typography, images, positioning, alignment, color, and other interactive features. However, InDesign’s interface, tools, and workflows can be a bit challenging to get to grips with. This cookbook will assist you in building unparalleled InDesign workflows with tried and tested recipes. With Designing the Adobe InDesign Way, you’ll learn how to add and edit content, create color swatches, and use features such as tables, all while applying software best practices and techniques to ensure that your work is fast, efficient, and easily maintained. Additionally, you’ll explore advanced InDesign features such as text styles, parent pages, tables of contents, and pre-flighting. Finally, you’ll take a closer look at the many export options in InDesign and ways to truly maximize its capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to draft and design your own projects while ensuring your work is compatible with industry standards for print and digital documents.
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Creating rectangle and elliptical frames

In this recipe, we will learn how to use the Rectangle Frame tool or the Ellipse Frame tool to create frames, adjust the positioning of frames on the fly during the creation process, and even create multiple identical frames with a simple shortcut trick.

The steps shown can be completed with either the Rectangle Frame tool or the Ellipse Frame tool and work exactly the same in both cases, with the only difference being the shape of the resulting frame. For this specific recipe, I will complete the steps using the Rectangle Frame tool.

Getting ready

In order to complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1.

How to do it…

In order to create rectangle frames or elliptical frames on your document, follow these steps:

  1. Select the Rectangle Frame tool from the Tools panel (marked as A in Figure 4.1). This option...

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