In-Design - Week 2

This week we focused on Chapter 2 of the InDesign workbook.

Terms & tools we looked at include:

• The Pasteboard
• The Toolbar
• Panels
• Menus
• Manipulating Pages - in a multi-page oducment, you can add/delete and move pages.
• Frames - InDesign - Pics and text go into frames.
• Selection Tool - you have to turn on an object before you can manipulate it. Note: solid arrow - content frame and Hollow arrow - selects content
• Text - importing information - turn on a texct box and choose file to import text from a Word file (place)
• Pictures - File > Place - Images are not a permanent part of the file until it's embedded.
• Fitting - pcitures in frames and control how a picture its frame fits
• Bridge - I still don't understand what this is
• Leading - line space between lines
• Kerning -
• Pica - column width 12 points in a Pica. It is written 0p6. 1p6 = 18pts
• Point Size - size of letters.

Homework - completed up to the end of Chapter 2