InDesign Text and Layout Essentials: Key Concepts
InDesign Text and Layout Essentials
Working with Text Frames
How do you insert text from an external document into a text frame?
Select the text frame (Selection tool), then click File > Place.
Paragraph Styles
How do you add the Paragraph Styles panel if you are not able to use the Type menu?
Go to the Window menu, then Styles > Paragraph Styles.
Workspace Management
How do you create a new or save a workspace?
Click Essentials (Top Right), select New Workspace, then type the name of the new workspace.
Project Management: Scope Creep
Which term refers to changes in size or complexity of deliverables that must be controlled in order to keep a project on schedule and under budget?
Scope Creep.
Image Manipulation
Define resizing a frame:
Changing the size of an image’s container without changing the dimensions of the image.
Define cropping an image:
Altering the width and height of an image by removing parts of the image’s edges.
Define scaling an image:
Changing the width and height, and sometimes the resolution, to different specifications.
Define resampling:
Adapting an image when the resolution (number of pixels in the image) will increase or decrease.
Master Pages
Define master page:
Pages that contain text, graphics, and guides which can be repeated on every page of a publication.
Facing Pages
Define facing pages:
Left and right pages that share a spine in the printed publication.
Frames
Define frame:
A container of text and other objects in a layout.
Design Considerations
Which two factors should influence design choices when working on this new geography textbook?
- Old design of textbook
- Target audience
Emphasis in Design
Emphasis in this textbook will help highlight the most important parts of the text. Which two statements best describe appropriate use of emphasis in your textbook?
- Emphasis helps readers identify the relative importance of each element.
- A clear focal point will be the most emphasized element.
Emphasis in print design refers to how some parts of a layout are made to stand out in order to draw the reader’s attention. In this textbook, emphasis will help highlight important parts of the text. Which two statements best describe appropriate use of emphasis in your textbook?
- Emphasis will help readers identify the important elements on the page.
- Emphasis is often achieved using color, contrast, and size.
Spacing and Offset
What will help you to uniformly change the spacing between selections of text and all four sides of wrap objects in the articles?
Offset.
Disabling Facing Pages
You need to treat each page in a document as a single page. Which option should you disable to make each page stand alone?
Facing pages.
PDF Export Options
When exporting a document as a print PDF file, which two of the following options can you specify?
- Whether there will be thumbnail images of the pages.
- On which Acrobat layout it will open.
Color Modes: CMYK
Which color mode uses a combination of four standard-colored inks (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black CMYK) to produce a variety of colors by mixing and overlaying them?
Process color (CMYK).
Spot Color
Which option refers to the use of premixed ink in specific colors that would each require its own printing plate on an offset printing press?
Spot color.
Contractor Specifications
Contractors will do much of the writing and organizing of the material for these books. To keep costs at a minimum, it is essential that you communicate your expectations to them very clearly. What do you call the document that describes the details about work that will be expected from contractors?
Specifications.
Frame Types
What three frame types are found in Adobe InDesign?
- Text frames
- Unassigned Frames
- Graphic frames
Convert Direction Point Tool
Which tool allows you to change corner points into smooth points and vice versa?
Convert Direction Point tool.