Adobe Indesign CS2

The content and frame for any placed graphics are separate elements. Unlike text objects, the frame and content for a graphic each has its own bounding box. Resizing the graphic contents is exactly like resizing the frame, except that you work with the bounding box for the [...]

The design for this page calls for the purple background image to extend across the page from the title panel to the right edge of the page. Although this image is not yet the right size or shape to do that, you’ll start making those adjustments now.
First, [...]

In this section, you’ll focus on different techniques for modifying frames and frame contents. To start, you’ll import an image and place it in your document spread. Because you’ll be working on graphics rather than text, your first step is to make sure that the graphics appear [...]

So far, you’ve dragged a handle to resize the text frame, using the Selection tool. Now, you’ll use an anchor point to reshape the frame, using the Direct Selection tool.

If the text frame on the left page is not selected, use the Selection tool to select it now.
In the toolbox, [...]

When you select an object on an InDesign page, various color-coded lines and small squares appear around the object. These items represent the bounding box, handles, path, anchor points, and center point. The colors defined in the Layer palette determine how [...]

You’ll resize a text frame using the Selection tool. The size of the text characters inside the frame remains unchanged, but when you resize a frame, the text flow will wrap differently or may display more or less text after you change the frame size.
This document includes two layers: Art [...]

Adobe InDesign CS2 frames may contain either text or graphics. As you work with frames, you’ll notice that InDesign provides a great amount of flexibility and control over your design. This chapter introduces you to working with frames in InDesign.
In this introduction to working with frames, you’ll learn how to do [...]

Turning on this Composition preference enables you to see instantly where you (or anyone else in your workgroup) have applied custom tracking, most likely for the purpose of tracking back a line to fix widows and orphans or to save space. This can be enormously beneficial if you suspect that one of [...]

While no magic bullet, when incorporated into a Paragraph Style definition, this feature is useful for preventing unequal line lengths in heading and subheadings. Of course, it doesn’t know how to break for sense, so you still have to manually check your headlines and insert line breaks where necessary to move words down [...]

A baseline grid can be your best friend when creating documents that require a clean, structured look. Far from constraining your design possibilities, baseline grids are liberating, taking the hassle out of trying to figure out where to put things relative to other elements on your page. InDesign’s implementation of baseline grids [...]