tailieunhanh - ADOBE INDESIGN CS2 REVEALED- P7

ADOBE INDESIGN CS2 REVEALED- P7:Welcome to Adobe InDesign CS2—Revealed. This book offers creative projects, concise instructions, and complete coverage of basic to advanced InDesign skills, helping you to create polished, professional-looking layouts. Use this book as you learn InDesign, and then use it later as your own reference guide. | the nine points available on a selected item s bounding box. Clicking a reference point on the proxy tells InDesign that you wish to see the horizontal and vertical locations of that point of the selected object. When an object is selected the X value is the horizontal location how far it is across the page and the Y value is the vertical location how far it is down the page. The selected object in Figure 6 has an X location of 1 inch and a Y location of 1 inch. This means that its top left point is 1 inch across the page and 1 inch down. Why the top left point Because that is what has been clicked in the proxy also shown in Figure 6. QUI TIP X and Y location values for circles are determined by the reference points of the bounding box that is placed around circles when they are selected. Be sure to note that the text boxes in the Transform palette are interactive. For example if you select an object and find that its X coordinate is 2 you can enter 3 in the X Location text box press Enter Win or return Mac and the object will be relocated to the new location on the page. You can also change the width or height of a selected object by changing the value in the Width or Height text boxes. QUII TIP You can perform calculations in the text boxes in the Transform palette. For example you could select an object whose width is three inches. By typing 3 - .625 in the W text box you can reduce the object s width to inches. What a powerful feature Using the Control Palette The Control palette docked at the top of the document window by default is similar to the Transform palette. It offers the same settings and ability to modify a selected object. For example you can change the width and height of a frame using the Control palette just as you can with the Transform palette. Unlike the Transform palette the Control palette offers additional options for frames including changing the frame s stroke weight and stroke style. The options in the Control palette change based