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Chapter 1Understanding InDesign IngredientsIn This Chapter▶ Getting acquainted with the InDesign approach▶ Figuring out global versus local control▶ E

18Part I: Before You Begin Page controlsIf you feel like flipping through pages of the document you’re creating, InDesign makes it easy with page-turn

19 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients ✓ Display a master page in one window and a document page based on that master page in another window

20Part I: Before You Begin own tab or free-floating window, depending on whether you’ve enabled Open Documents as Tabs in the Interface pane of the Pr

21 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients InDesign adds two tools: the Page tool (see Chapter 4) and the Gap tool (see Chapter 10). It drops t

22Part I: Before You Begin Using the Selection toolsTo work with objects, you have to select them. InDesign provides two tools to do that, letting you

23 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign IngredientsSelection tool, making it easier to select and move graphics in frames that are overlapped by others.

24Part I: Before You Begin Using the object-creation toolsInDesign has a bunch of tools for creating shapes. Part V covers them in more depth, but you

25 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients ✓ Hand tool: The Hand tool lets you move a page around to view differ-ent portions of it or another p

26Part I: Before You Begin Working with Panels, Docks, and WorkspacesInDesign has so many controls and features that its designers have long ago stopp

27 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients ✓ Any active panel has a collapse control (the >> icon). For panels in the dock, clicking that

10Part I: Before You Begin in the document window, survey the most commonly used tools, and explain how InDesign packages much of its functionality th

28Part I: Before You Begin icon to open it from the Control panel and several other panels; you can also choose Edit➪Quick Apply (Ô+Return or Ctrl+Ent

29 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients Figure 1-4: The collapsed dock is the default (left), but you can expand it (right). Working with wor

30Part I: Before You Begin Workspace. (Note that this menu option has been called Save Workspace in previous versions.) Give the workspace a name that

31 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredientsyou print documents and prepare them for commercial printing; and where you set basic user information

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11 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign IngredientsChoosing the right tools for the jobDepending on what you’re trying to do with InDesign at any given m

12Part I: Before You Begin Specifying measurement valuesAnother situation in which you can choose between local or global controls is specifying measu

13 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients InDesign CS5 adds the capability to specify measurements in pixels, as part of its newfound capabili

14Part I: Before You Begin Figure 1-1: The document window is where you work on documents. Bottom: The Windows 7 version differs in its Close, Minimi

15 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients If you change the ruler measurement system when no documents are open, the rulers in all new documen

16Part I: Before You Begin PasteboardThe white area that surrounds the page is called the pasteboard. It’s a work-space for temporarily storing object

17 Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients ✓ The third element is the View Options pop-up menu, which lets you hide and show frames boundaries,