Thursday, 3 May 2012

In Design Week 2

More techniques learnt in this weeks tutorial in In Design...

When wanting to see what text will look like but no content as yet ... Type- Fill with place holder text

Leading- line spacing, usually 4 up from text size


Curning- Spaces between letters


Space after paragraph


First letter in paragraphs made bigger than rest


Object- Text Frame Options= Inset Spacing
Making text in the middle of the box

Colour to be on CYMK setting

W= Preview mode

Swatches- stops variations of colour 


New swatch of colour- click on box with the colour you want to maintain- then on swatches tab press new swatch icon


Layout- margins and columns to change margins to particular box size then use ruler to keep measurements see able then move margins back. 
Light blue lines= ruler made by pulling down from grey ruler


To insert page numbers
Type- Insert Special Character- Markers- Current Page Number

When changing final doc to Pdf make sure Adobe Pd4 Presets- PDFX3 2002


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