InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Flowing Text

After making your import choices for one of the formats above, click Choose (Mac OS X) or Open (Mac OS 9 and Windows). Then, one of two things happens: If you don't have a frame selected, you'll see the loaded text cursor, which changes depending on where the cursor is and what modifier keys you're holding down (see Figure 39-2). If you have a frame (either text or graphics) selected and the Replace Selected Item option was turned on, InDesign fills the frame with the imported text. (If this was a mistake, just choose Undo Replace from the Edit menu, or press Command-Z/Ctrl-Z, which reloads the "Place gun.")

Manual Flow

You can manually flow text from one unlinked frame to the next by clicking the loaded text cursor anywhere on the page. If you click on a frame, the text is placed into it. If you click elsewhere on the page, InDesign creates a frame and flows the text from the point where you click to the bottom of the page (or to the end of the text, whichever comes first). If there's more text than can fit in that frame, you'll see a plus sign in the out port of the text frame (see Figure 39-3). Instead of clicking, you can also drag out a text frame with the cursor to create the shape of a rectangular frame.

To continue manually flowing text, choose the Selection tool and click the frame's out port. Again, you'll see the loaded text cursor, with which you can fill or create a frame elsewhere in your document. Note that you can change pages or scroll around while the loaded text cursor is showing. (You can also cancel further text flow by selecting any other tool in the Tools palette.)

Semi-Autoflow

Semi-autoflow works the same as manual text flow, except that after creating each text frame, the cursor automatically changes to the loaded text cursor so you can create another text frame or fill an existing frame without clicking on the out port. You can choose the semi-autoflow method by holding down the Option/Alt key when placing text. InDesign then displays the semi-autoflow cursor.

Autoflow

If you hold down the Shift key when you click with the loaded text cursor, InDesign flows your text automatically, creating new frames and pages, and linking them automatically (this is the default behavior of XPress). If you Shift-click on a frame from a master page, InDesign automatically adds new document pages and links from one master page text frame to the next (see Chapter 30).

Unfortunately, unlike QuarkXPress, InDesign can't automatically add pages and text frames when editing textonly when importing with the Shift key.