InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Moving Between Pages

You are able to easily move between the pages in your document using some familiar tools and some ideas borrowed from other Adobe applications.

Pages Palette

Like the Document Layout palette in QuarkXPress, the Pages palette provides you with an icon representing each page in your document (see Figure 2-2). You may double-click on a page to move to that page. As an added bonus, you can also double-click on the page numbers below the spread and InDesign jumps to the spread and centers the pages within the window. Like XPress, master pages are shown at the top of the palette; double-click on one to view it. The page number that you are currently viewing appears bold in the Pages palette.

Document Window Navigation

The current page and zoom magnification is always listed in the navigation panel in the lower-left corner of the document window. To move to a specific page, click the down arrow at the right of the page number, and select a page from the pop-up list (see Figure 2-3). To move forward or backward by one page, click the right or left facing arrows, respectively. To move to the start or end of the document, use the arrows with the vertical line adjacent to them.

Key Commands for Navigating

Just as in QuarkXPress, you can use Command-J/Ctrl-J to quickly enter a page number and move to that page. However, unlike QuarkXPress, no dialog box appearsrather, the current page number in the navigation panel is highlighted (in the lower left corner of the document window). You can then enter the desired page number, followed by Enter or Return.

InDesign has the same keyboard shortcuts as XPress for navigating through your document: You can use the Page Up and Page Down keys on your keyboard to scroll up or down through your document. Plus, adding the Option/Alt key when using the Page Up and Page Down keys will take you up or down to the next full spread. Adding the Shift key takes you to the next or previous page.

The Navigator Palette

QuarkXPress users might not be familiar with the Navigator palette, which you can open from the Window menu. InDesign's Navigator palette works identically to those in Illustrator and Photoshop. The palette shows a tiny representation of an entire page (see Figure 2-4). A red box on the page identifies the area which is currently visible on screen. At the bottom of the palette, you can use the sliding triangle to zoom in or zoom out of the page by dragging it right or left. You can see the view change in the active document window, and the red box in the palette will also update to reflect the current visible area.

The percentage value displayed in the lower left of the palette indicates the current view percentage. You can click your cursor into this area and enter a value, just as you can in the lower left of the document window.

Unlike the Navigator palette in Illustrator or Photoshop, you can also use this palette to display all pages in a document and navigate to a specific portion of a document page. You can select View All Pages from the palette's flyout menu to see all of the document pages.

In our experience, this palette is slow to redraw on all but the fastest computers. And because we often work on our notebook computers, we find that this palette takes up more space than it is worth on smaller screens, so we tend to leave this palette closed.

The Layout Menu

Of course, if you really don't like all of the other navigational options we've discussed, you can always use the Layout menu which, like XPress's Page menu, provides menu commands for moving from page to page. We find it painfully inefficient to see anyone using these commands, as they are so labor intensive. We encourage you to avoid using them.

Scrollable Mouse

We take advantage of two-button mice (though David uses a 10-button trackball on his Macintosh)and so does InDesign. If you're using a third-party multi-button mouse on the Macintosh, make sure the second button is set to Control-click.