The Power of Keep Options It’s good form to keep your headings directly on top of your paragraph text, but if you’re using columns, you may have a situation where a heading falls at the bottom of a column with its correlating text falling to the next column or page. […]
Remove Rivers in Paragraphs InDesign has the built in functionality to show you if your kerning is too squashed or if your rivers (gaps between you words) are too large and interfering with the look of your paragraphs. This is especially handy if you justify your paragraphs which may lead […]
Making Your Headers Fancy Would you like to know how to create responsive header designs and pull quote designs like these, that expand and contract according to the length of your text? There are some neat styling options available in the Paragraph and Border Shading dialogue box, but these options […]
Auto-Size Your Text Boxes Typically when you create a text frame, the frame size is set to the height and width you initially created it at. When you paste in text or type text in a text frame that exceeds the size of the frame, you get one of those […]
Remove Active Hyphenation as Default Option Permanently Open InDesign, but do not open any documents. Any changes made to your preferences while a document is open will only affect those documents. For any changes to stick, you need to make adjustments to your panels and preferences while there are no […]
Set up the Grid Open a new document (command + n for Mac or ctrl + n for Windows). In the New Document window, decide if you want facing pages on or off, how many columns you want, what the gutter and margins should be. These setting will depend on […]
Adding texture to a design is a simple and easy way to make it more interesting looking. While this is a pretty straightforward thing to do in Photoshop, in InDesign this is another story. Adding patterns and texture doesn’t come built into the native InDesign package and 3rd party plugins are usually […]