When runaround is set on boxes, it will, by default, push around overlapping text on any layers below the current. Often, that’s the way we want it. However, layers have been a means of experimentation, of trying out different layouts risk-free. They’re also extremely handy for setting multi-lingual documents. In those cases, XPress’s habit of…

A frequent question is: How do I import or place one InDesign document into another to combine them? Excellent question, but you don’t start from import or place. Open both the source and destination document in InDesign, and tile the two windows. Now, in the Pages palette of the source document, whose pages you want…

Changing layer blending modes is common. So common, in fact, that there’s a shortcut to jump straight to it from your keyboard. SHIFT++ (plus) Where ever you are in your document, just change to the Move tool (V), and hit SHIFT++ to jump immediately to the current layer’s Blend Modes menu. Use the keyboard arrow…

Yesterday we learned that, when a text frame is grouped with other objects and scaled, InDesign reflects both the original and scaled size of the type in the Font Size field. It does so by including two values, such as “50 pt(24.85)”. The first is the size originally set, while the parenthetic value is the…

Have you ever seen two values in the Font Size field–one embraced by parentheses? It could read something like “50 pt(24.85)”. If you haven’t yet noticed such an unexpected thing, you haven’t done much with grouped objects. When you group a text frame or type on a path with other objects, and then resize the…