Comments on: Formatting Typography and the Use of Styles in Adobe InDesign

By: amarcotty

amarcotty — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:43:23 +0000

This is very good, but why are you using fractions of inches to specify type, rather than picas and points? That’s like measuring your room in nautical miles.

By: Sean Hodge

Sean Hodge — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:42:11 +0000

Chris, we haven’t planned on releasing a site dedicated to InDesign. At this point we plan on adding more ID tuts here. But if the requests for a site dedicated to that keep coming in, then it makes it more likely to happen. Thx.

By: mikeyd

mikeyd — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:41:16 +0000

Unless I’m misreading something, I don’t believe the description of Keep Options is at all accurate. I understand it to ‘keep’ a certain number of lines together; for example, a subhead to stay with at least 4 lines of the next paragraph so it’s not left standing on its own in certain instances.

By: Jörgen

Jörgen — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:16:42 +0000

Excellent tutorial! Check out my ID template for typography and styles. Play around with the settings from this tutorial or just ge ahead in your next ID project.

By: Travis Neilson

Travis Neilson — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:55:49 +0000

I didnt know it would render my blockquote. I meant to say:
blockquote {border-left: 1px;}

By: Travis Neilson

Travis Neilson — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:54:04 +0000

is there a way to create a vertical rule along the side of a paragraph like a rule above or below? The desired effect would be something similar to styling a

with {border-left: 1px;} in css.
Any ideas?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:39:34 +0000

Does this mean Envato is getting ready to roll out an IDtuts site?

By: Hoang

Hoang — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:26:13 +0000

Like Jonathan and Greet pointed out, in Step 4 you can just let InDesign generate some dummy text for you. Right mouse click or menu Type > Fill with Placeholder Text.

But what this command does is really fill the type box of text. You may want to delete and break some lines to make the paragraphs you want though. A quick tip is to draw the type box right enough the size of the text you want, then fill text in, and enlarge the type box.

By: Diego SA

Diego SA — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:58:46 +0000

That’s a different one. Cool!

By: imsraaia

imsraaia — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:16:57 +0000

nice