Creating a Print Layout (Adobe Creative Suite 5) Part 4

Applying paragraph styles

In the story you just imported, one of the headings has the wrong style applied. It’s body text, but it should be a heading. You’ll fix this by applying the correct paragraph style.

1    While viewing page l3, open the Paragraph Styles panel (Window > Styles > Paragraph Styles).

2   Select the Text tool from the Tools panel and click to place the flashing cursor inside the heading “Cobblestones, gentrification and local produce”. For a paragraph style, it is not necessary to select the entire paragraph.

3   In the Paragraph Styles panel, select the Subhead paragraph style. Notice the change in the text in the document window.

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4 Save your changes.

Wrapping text around frames

Now that the text is formatted properly, it’s time to take care of the text overlapping the woman’s arm on page l2.

1 With the Selection tool, click the woman’s arm.

While not currently visible, this image contains a clipping path that was drawn in Adobe Photoshop to cut the image out of its red background. You can also use this path as a text wrap boundary.


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2 In the Text Wrap panel (Window > Text Wrap), click the third button from the left in the top row. This button wraps text around the shape of the object’s frame.

3 In the Text Wrap panel, choose Photoshop Path from the Contour Options: Type menu. There is only one clipping path stored in the document, Path 1, which appears in the Path menu. The clipping path is now used as the frame for the image, hiding all parts of the image that lie outside the frame path.

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Note that a 9-point wrap offset distance is specified in the Text Wrap panel. You can adjust this number to control the distance of the text wrap from the object frame, but you don’t need to make an adjustment here.

If you wanted to edit the shape of the object frame, you could select the Direct Selection tool to move the points on the frame.

Splitting paragraphs within columns and spanning paragraphs across columns

There’s some additional layout work to be done on page 13. To improve the composition of the page, you’ll change the two columns on the page to three columns, and you’ll convert some of the text into a sidebar. Fortunately, this will be as simple as selecting text and choosing options in the Control panel.

1 Go to page 13, and with the Selection tool, click the two-column text frame.

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2 Choose Object > Text Frame Options, change the Number of columns to 3, and click OK.

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3 With the Type tool, select the bullet list in the first column. (Don’t select the heading.)

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4 Make sure the Control panel is in Paragraph Formatting mode (the paragraph symbol is selected at the left edge), and choose Split 2 from the Span Columns menu in the Control panel.

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5 Click the Type tool in the “Cobblestones, gentrification…” heading and choose Span 2 from the same Span Columns menu in the Control panel.

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6 In the Layers panel, if necessary click the triangle next to the Text layer to expand it. Then click in the eye column for the Blue Box object to make it visible behind the sidebar. The box was added by the designer to accommodate the sidebar.

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Laying out multiple photos in a grid

InDesign simplifies and accelerates this process by letting you place multiple photos into a grid you create as you import the images and by using metadata inside images to generate automatic image captions on the layout.

1 Go to page 15, and in the Layers panel, select the layer Graphics. This ensures that images you import into InDesign will be placed on the Graphics layer.

2 In Mini Bridge, navigate to the Links folder. Select the four files Ol_Fruitstand.psd, O2_Berries.psd, O3_Corn.psd, and O4_Flowers.psd, and drag all four selected items to page l5 of the InDesign layout.

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3 Position the loaded Place cursor at the intersection of the left margin and the cyan guide below the text frame on page l5. Begin dragging, and while the mouse button is still down, press the Right Arrow key once and then the Up Arrow once to create a 2 x 2 grid. Continue dragging to the bottom-right corner of the page to the intersection of the lower ruler guide and the right margin guide, and then release the mouse. Leave the images selected.

The images are set to fit within their frames, but you want these images to fill their frames while maintaining their proportions.

The images are set to fit within their frames, but you want these images to fill their frames while maintaining their proportions.

4 Choose Object > Fitting > Frame Fitting Options. In the dialog box, select Fill Frame Proportionally in the Fitting menu, and then select the center point in the Align From proxy. Click OK.

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