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Use Basic Keyboard Shortcuts to Increase Productivity
Adobe products share many of the same basic keyboard shortcuts with each other, allowing you to increase your productivity by using the same key strokes in different programs. Many tools in the toolbox have a keystroke assigned to them making it easy for you to move from tool to tool while working. Holding shift while pressing the assigned key, toggles through the different tools.

Create Autocorrect Macros
On large typesetting jobs for companies and corporations, the client will want their entire company name listed throughout the text. A quick and easy way to save yourself time is to create autocorrect macros. In the menu bar of InDesign, choose Edit>Preferences>Autocorrect. In the preferences dialog, click the enable autocorrect checkbox and click the add button to show the add to autocorrect list dialog. In the Misspelled Word field, add the shortcut word you want to use (PSP), then in the Correction field, enter the words you want the shortcut word to spell (PrintSouth Printing, Inc.). Click ok and then ok again. Now when typing, every time you enter PSP, InDesign will autocorrect to PrintSouth Printing, Inc.

Text Wrap Only Affects Text Underneath
Adobe InDesign gives you a couple different ways to wrap text around an image or shape, but sometimes you need text unaffected by the wrap. If you have an area of text that overlays a graphic or image with text wrap, you can choose Object>Text Frame Options (command/control+b) and check the Ignore Text Wrap box. Or you can set your InDesign document to only affect text under a wrap. Choose Edit>Preferences>Composition from the menu bar. Enable the Text Wrap Only Affects Text Beneath checkbox and click ok. Any text placed on top of a text wrap will not be affected by the wrap.

• Autocorrect is a tool you may be familiar with; it’s a common feature on touchscreen devices. Keep in mind that Autocorrect does not necessarily automatically correct any misspelled word, as you might expect. You will need to manually insert any spelling mistakes you would like to be corrected.
• Mar 18, 2021 From here, click on Proofing on the left-hand side, then on the AutoCorrect Options button toward the top: On the AutoFormat tab, make sure the box for “Internet and network paths with hyperlinks” is checked: If you’re like me and would rather turn off such autoformatting, you can still create a hyperlink manually.
• From here, click on Proofing on the left-hand side, then on the AutoCorrect Options button toward the top: On the AutoFormat tab, make sure the box for “Internet and network paths with hyperlinks” is checked: If you’re like me and would rather turn off such autoformatting, you can still create a hyperlink manually.
• InDesign Lightroom Presets Other Software. Autocorrect, I have never, not even once, meant Ducking PNG is a funny saying on a colorful watercolor scenic background over top of zebra print. This design will look great on drinkware and clothing and is sure to bring a chuckle to many.

Control Layers when Placing Graphics
The ability to create multiple layered documents in Photoshop and Illustrator allows your designs to look amazing. Saving multiple files from those apps can get confusing. Luckily InDesign allows you to import the same layered file while turning off/on different layers. Place an image by choosing File>Place and selecting your image or graphic. Choose Show Import Options and select ok. Click the Layers tab and select the layers you want visible by clicking the eye icon. Take note that adding or removing a layer in the original file will update differently in InDesign.

Adobe SuitePhotoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. Maya (Modeling and Animation) Unity3d (Game Design) HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Crystal Reports. Kyle is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute in the Media Arts and Animation Program.

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Rotating Spreads
InDesign does well with 8.5x11 saddle stitch books, but what if you need a layout that is 11x17 folded to 11x8.5 stitched in the middle like a calendar? You could create an 11x17 document, but printing companies need individual pages for imposition. Luckily InDesign has a work around for this situation. Create your normal facing pages document with the number of pages needed. Right click a page on the spread and choose Page Attributes>Rotate Spread View and choose 90 clockwise or 90 counterclockwise (just make sure you choose the same for all spreads). Now you can design the project as you would see it, and when you export to pdf, it will still be a left and right hand spread.

Flowing Text Boxes Through Multiple Pages
Reflowing text throughout multiple pages and text boxes is simple with InDesign. If you have more text than your text box will show, a little red plus sign appears in the lower right hand corner of your text box. Click the plus sign and begin drawing a new text box and your overflow text will fill into the box. But, what if you have lots of overflow text that will fill multiple pages? InDesign has a nice shortcut for doing this. Once you have clicked the little red plus, hold down SHIFT and click once in the top left corner of your page margins. InDesign will create a text box to the margins of the page, and create new pages with your text flowing into the new boxes automatically until your text runs out.

PDF X-Factor
InDesign give you lots of options when exporting a pdf including how to handle colors and layers. In the export dialog box, there is a dropdown menu titled Standard. Choosing PDF/X-1a converts RGB images to CMYK. The PDF/X-3a flattens your transparencies, but leaves RGB images alone. And the PDF/X4 keeps transparency and layers and does not convert RGB images.

Live Distribute
Aligning elements can be tricky, but InDesign allows you more control than you may be aware of. If you have your objects aligned and equally spaced but need more room between the objects, you could move one object, then select the others and click distribute but there is an easier way. Select your objects, then press and hold on a transformation handle, click and hold the spacebar and start dragging. Once you release the spacebar and transformation handle, your images will remain equally spaced out instead of resized. If you would like to see the objects as you redistribute, pause for a second before you begin dragging.

Edit Master Elements on any Page
Your master page works great on every page, except for one. Easily edit an element from the master page by holding down Shift + Command (Mac) or Shift + Control (Windows) and clicking on the element. This makes that element available on the page you are working on and leaves it alone on others that use a Master page.

Select Objects Behind Others
An easy way to select objects that are behind other objects, is to hold the Command key and click the elements. InDesign will select the top frame, then work its way down to the bottom frame with each click.

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Today, we’re talking shop, Microsoft Word style! Specifically, how to turn Opentype features on & off within the advanced menu options.

What are Opentype features and why should you care about them? Well, these are little bits of code (sometimes big bits!) that tell your software to do certain actions like inserting swashes, substituting alternate letters, and enabling connected letter pairs called ‘ligatures’. Basically, this code takes a standard alphabet and makes it do amazing things for you!

You see, font designers don’t just create letters – they actually program those letters to respond to your commands. The complicated swapping happens behind the scenes; all you have to do is click a few buttons and your program will take care of the rest. Talk about power, right? For whatever reason, though, some programs **cough cough, Microsoft Word** assume that you would rather not take over the world with swashed and flourished documents. So they hide these buttons deep inside advanced option menus, or worse still, pretend like fancy font code doesn’t exist. And that’s a shame, because almost every Opentype font has this cool code stuff built right in.

So, how do we start switching these cool features on? The first step is to make sure you’re running up-to-date software. Microsoft started offering fancy Opentype feature support in Word 2010, so if you’re using an earlier copy, you’ll need to upgrade. Once that’s done, simply open up the program and start a blank document. (In this tutorial, I am using Word 2011 for Mac. The menus and options look similar in newer versions, but you can always refer to Microsoft Office’s support page for instructions specific to your software.)

On the main menu, click the ‘Format’ option and select ‘Font’ from the drop-down menu. This will pull up a dialogue box with two tabs, ‘Font’ and ‘Advanced’. First, we’ll make sure our ‘Font’ settings are correct.

In this example, we’ll select the font, Ondise. Choose the style you prefer (Ondise looks best as ‘regular’) and the letter size. We’ll leave the rest of the options set to default/blank. Notice that the preview window at the bottom of this dialogue box is ‘live’ – the name of the font will grow or shrink based on the letter size you select. This is exactly how the letters will appear in your document.

Now, let’s click on the ‘Advanced’ tab. This is where the Opentype magic happens! The first thing you should do is set your character scale to 100%, and make sure that the ‘Kerning for fonts:’ button is checked. Set the number in the box next door to the smallest number possible (usually 8). This means kerning will be applied anytime you’re using a point size of 8 or above. If you set this number to 12, kerning will not be applied to words that are point size 11 or smaller.

You may be wondering, what the heck is kerning? Very simply, it’s the spacing between two specific letters. Font designers spend a ridiculous amount of time going through every possible combination of characters in the font to make sure that your words look balanced and beautiful, and are easy to read. There are literally thousands of combinations that must be set by hand, and if you’re making a hand-drawn font, this process can take months to complete. (Kerning = love!) When a font is properly kerned, your words will look amazing – so make sure you’ve got that button checked.

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You may also be wondering, if kerning is so magical and important for pretty words, and if the whole point of a word processor is to assemble pretty words into functional documents, why on earth would Microsoft keep this option turned off by default? Yeah. Type designers wonder about that too.

Next, we’re going to start enabling the ‘ligatures’ feature. As I mentioned earlier, ‘ligature’ is a fancy way of describing letter combinations. Usually this refers to a pair, but sometimes there are multi-letter ligatures like ‘ffi’. Almost every font comes with standard ligatures – most also have discretionary ligatures built in. A smaller subset of fonts have contextual and historical ligatures. In this example, we will set ligatures to ‘All’, but feel free to experiment with other fonts to see how turning various ligatures combos on or off affects the document.

Number spacing is the next option. If you’re working with lots of numbers in a chart or table, you will probably want to select ‘Tabular’. Tabular numbers have the exact same width as one another so that they line up perfectly in vertical column. Proportional numbers are more visually pleasing, and work well for dates or phone numbers. You can see examples of both in use at Fonts.com. In this example, we’ll leave this option set to ‘Default’.

Number forms is the next option, and as you might imagine, it only affects numbers in your project. Lining and Old-style are two different ways of arranging numbers on a baseline. When you’ve selected ‘Lining’, your numbers will appear in a straight row, with the tops & bottoms of each number lining up exactly. Old-style numbers look a little more irregular; some letters dip down below others, and others even change shape. Look at the difference in the zeros above – do you see how the Old-style version is smaller and rounded? Try toggling between these options and seeing how the numbers in your project change. Which version do you prefer?

And now, a word about Stylistic Sets. The most common question I am asked is, “How do I get those pretty swashed letters in my document?!” The short answer is, Stylistic Sets. Here’s the long explanation:

Many kinds of Opentype features are recognized by professional design applications like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The most common (and fun!) feature that people are looking for in a font is the ‘Swash’ feature. If you’re using one of the programs mentioned above, you can easily access Ondise’s swashes in the program’s Opentype menu. Yay! Unfortunately, Microsoft Word doesn’t support the ‘Swash’ feature yet. Boo!

Luckily for us, font-designers get around this problem with Stylistic Sets. Think of these numbered sets as back doors – designers often duplicate “unsupported-in-Word” features into them. In Ondise, for example, you can enable the beautiful swashed letters at the beginning and end of each word by selecting ‘1’ from the drop down menu. Make sure to experiment with these sets to see what features they unlock; you might be surprised at all of the beautiful characters that were hiding behind the curtains!

Notice how the preview changed after we selected Stylistic Set 1? That shows that the swashed letters are now enabled. When you type within your document, anytime you put a space or punctuation before/after a letter, it will automatically flourish itself as you type. Nifty, huh?

Before you close this dialogue box, make sure to check ‘Use contextual alternates’ and ‘Enable TrueType typography features’. The contextual alternates feature tells the program to look for and make changes to specific letter combinations. When this option is checked while using Ondise, you’ll see that the second letter in an identical-letter pair will automatically change into an alternate form. So the identical o’s in soon will suddenly connect in a more natural way, and will appear to be hand-drawn.

Once you’ve made sure all of your options match those of this tutorial, click OK to go back to your document.

Voila!!! All of your fancy Opentype settings will now be in use and you can impress your friends & family with your mad font skillz. One quick note – even after you’ve made all of these changes, Word still thinks it’s smarter than you. Any auto-correct functions (capitalizing the first letter of a sentence, automatic carriage returns, etc.) will override the font’s Opentype code. You’ll need to turn all of the functions off within the Options/Preferences panels before you have 100% control over your project. (And when you do, it will feel so good.)

At some point, the wizards over at Slytherin Microsoft will catch up with the demand for one-click Opentype options & full feature support. In the meantime, hopefully this guide will help you get the most fun out of your font library!