Yuck. Sloppy punctuation, but easily fixed in Indesign. Go to Type > Story.
Now why Adobe chose to have this one little menu just to do optical spacing and not put it in the Paragraph Palette is beyond me. Doing the optical spacing for punctuation is its only purpose. Warning this will fuck up any drop caps and bullet points you have in the same text box. Check Optical Margin Alignment.
This looks pretty typical, a paragraph with a bullet point. We’d like to align the paragraph to the first letter of the first line. Now you can either do a trial and error with Paragraph Indents, use tabs on all those lines below (and redo it if there is a text reflow) or if you are exceptional sloppy, use spaces which never work perfectly.
There of course is a better way, Indesign’s most awesome key command. Put your cursor where you want the paragraph to snap to, then CMD+\.
DONE!
Trying to remember the key command for TM (OPT+2) or accented vowels, ah but OS X doesn’t have Key Caps available by default, and Character Map in Windows is 4 sub-menus down. Well there is an easier way of course, Glyphs.
What is Glyphs? Well it’s Adobe’s poorly-named character palette, while Glyphs is a nice 5-dollar word and fits within in the width of the menu, Fucked Up Characters Palette is far more descriptive and serves the user better. It’s in Illustrator and InDesign (not Photoshop, for some reason the Adobe Gods don’t think we need umlauts to edit images) under the type menu.
Tada!
I only wish it showed the key combination to reach the characters, like Key Caps and Char Map do, so you don’t have to keep going back to the menu.
InDesign guides all over your beautiful design? Photoshop and Illustrator have a Clear Guides menu item, but not Indesign.
Why, I have no idea, but I do know how to clear them quickly. Make sure the guides are unlocked and the layers the guides are on are also unlocked.
Win: CTRL+ALT+g
Mac: CMD+OPT+g
Now all your guides are selected, hit delete.
I hate when I see this shit. In Quark Express it used to mean I’d have to go through every EPS file or use FlightCheck to hunt down the file that has a misnamed spot color. Big pain in the ass. Well if you happen to use Indesign like most designers who have turned their back on Express you don’t have to worry about it. Alias it.
Under the Swatch palette, click the menu button and scroll down to Ink Manager.
Now that you have it open, select the errant color and alias to it’s fraternal twin. This will ‘point’ the misnamed ink to the chosen ink when it’s time for separations. Seems sloppy to leave the wrong color floating around on your swatch palette but be assured it won’t cause any problems when it’s on press.
This unfortunately will not change the look of the aliased ink to match the correctly named color in InDesign (at least in CS and CS2).
|
