Text in InDesign

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InDesign

Textframes

  • multiple columns
  • linkable to other frames (threading)-> flowing text
  • movable,sizable
  • auto fit to content

Typography

- character palette

  • General:
    • typeface family
    • typeface (maps, when family is changed), NO software approximation available
    • style
    • leading
    • tracking
    • kerning
      • manual
      • optical pair kerning (based on calculated space between chars)
      • metrics (pairs defined in font set)
    • horizontal & vertical scaling
    • baseline shift
    • skew value
    • superscript
    • subscript
    • optical margin alignment (mostly: punctuation marks outside frame -> text even)
  • OpenTypeStuff:
    • contextual replacements
    • type styles: all caps, small caps (auto mapping to predesigned), strike-through, etc…
    • ligatures (auto substitution)
    • glyphs
      • via glyph panel
      • automatically in current font
      • list of recently used
      • create own customized glyphs sets

paragraph palette

    • composing engines (single or multiple lines)
    • justification, 7 versions, +(set word and char. spacing ranges),
    • alignment
    • hyphenation (extensive settings)
    • drop caps

baseline offset

  • Ascent
    • The height of the “d” character in the font falls below the top inset of the text frame.
  • Cap Height
    • The top of uppercase letters touch the top inset of the text frame.
  • Leading
    • Use the text’s leading value as the distance between the baseline of the first line of text and the top inset of the frame.
  • X Height
    • The height of the “x” character in the font falls below the top inset of the frame.
  • Fixed
    • Specify the distance between the baseline of the first line of text and the top inset of the frame
  • Min
    • Select a minimum value for the baseline offset.

Effects

  • text to path
  • inline graphics
  • text wrap (in conjunction with paths!)
  • gradients

adding text

  • typing
  • pasting (with(out) style info)
  • placing (hot-linking)
  • selecting text
    • double,triple,quadruple,quintuple clicks

Misc

  • show hidden characters
  • special characters
  • quotation marks
    • specifiy which ones to use for different languages
  • white spaces
    • different sizes

Sources

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6fb3a.html

http://www.scribd.com/doc/238960/Adobe-InDesign-InDepth-Typography