InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Text Frame Options

To set text frame attributes, either choose the frame or frames with the Selection tool, or place the text insertion point in the frame with the Type tool. Then choose Text Frame Options from the Object menu (or press Command-B/Ctrl-B; see Figure 50-1). Throughout the dialog box, you can either type in values, click the tiny up/down arrows, or press the Up or Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease the valuesthe amount of change depends on the ruler unit selected.

Columns

InDesign, like QuarkXPress lets you set the number of columns in a text frame and the gutter width (width between columns). But InDesign also lets you define the width of a column. If you do this, as you adjust column and gutter widths, the width of the text frame changes, too. If you want to make sure the text column width doesn't change, you can turn on the Fixed Column Width option. With this on, resizing the text frame leaves the column width unchanged, but changes the

number of columns (see Figure 50-2).

Inset Spacing

Text inset defines the amount of space from the edge of the frame to the text in the frame. QuarkXPress 3 and 4 let you define one text inset for all four sides of the text box; QuarkXPress 5 allows different insets for each side of a box. InDesign also allows you to set the Top, Bottom, Left and Right inset values independently. InDesign's default is an inset value of 0 (zero), rather than the 1-point value in XPress which has always annoyed us. As in XPress 5.0, when it comes to non-rectangular frames, you can specify only one inset value.

Vertical Text Alignment

QuarkXPress has two ways of adjusting text vertically in a box: by setting the First Baseline Offset and by choosing a Vertical Justification option in the Modify dialog box. InDesign closely matches these choices in the Text Frame Options dialog box.

You can set the distance from the top of the frame to the the first baseline of text by choosing the Minimum amount for baseline offset, and then choose between Cap Height, Ascent, Leading (the text's leading value), x Height (the height of the "x" character of the font), or Fixed.

Both XPress and InDesign also let you choose between Top, Centered, Bottom and Justified vertical alignment within a text frame. XPress has a choice to set the Inter ¶ Max when Justified is selectedthe maximum distance between paragraphs. In InDesign, the same option is called Paragraph Spacing Limit. As with XPress, vertical justification isn't allowed when a frame isn't rectangular.