InDesign Typesetting

In this Production workshop we was taught all the basics to the different terminology related to typesetting within In-design, which tools to use for what and how to fix any related problems.

Kerning - is adjusting the Space between the characters

The Kerning tool in Adobe In-Design (which adjusts the space between characters in a whole word). 

Tracking - is the process of tightening or loosing a block of text.

Kerning tool In Adobe In-Design (used to tighten or loose a block of words)

Leading - Is the process of adjusting the vertical space between lines of type. 

Leading tool in In-Design (adjust the space vertically between lines)

Widows - Are the words at the end or at the beginning of a line that are separated from the rest of the text. This separates a word leaving the first part of the line on the first line and the second part of the word on the line below.

Example of a Widow.

Orphans - Are a few words or maybe a word it's own row in a paragraph creating too much white space between paragraphs.

Example of a Orphan.

How To prevent Widows and orphans?

One way to prevent orphans is to use Kerning and Leading to adjust the spaces between the type to either tighten the words and space or to loosen them. this will then adjust the scale and spacing of the words being able to remove and words that cut onto two different lines.
You can use this technique for widows to but also use tracking to tighten the spaces so you could fit more words on to a line.

Another way which could prevent Widows and Orphans is if you edit the composition of the text to 'Justified alignment'. 

Justify Tool

 

Working with Text Layout

The aim of this exercise was to be able to adjust the type layouts for the appropriate formats. Working with a leaflet design, we were shows and taught how to correctly insert text in using the correct formatting tools. To split the page into 3 columns where the main body of text would be placed.

For Paragraph Style

1. Paragraph styles
2. Click on New Paragraph styles
3. Change the Name
4. Basic Character Formats
5. Change font/Size
6. Leading to - 11.4pt
7. Indent Spacing (often 4mm)
8. Left Justify
9. Apply Syle
10. Edit -
11. Select all
12. click on the body text
13. Edit-
14. Click control
15. Click on the subheading
16. Type name.      

We also were taught how to format a contents page properly so if the pages changed the numbers would be updated themselve without us having to re-enter them. 

1. New paragraph style
2. Base on (Subheading type)
3. Layout -
4. Table of contents
5. Style - TOC
6. (Other style)
7. Click on subheading
8. Add
9. Entry style
10. Newpage
11. Add tabs to line up with p.s options
12. Tabs
13. Leader- .
14. Right justified tab (89)
15. Update table of contents

(Apply tabs instead of dots, press tab if nothing works right click on the text tool - Type - Tabs).

Contents page.

Newsletter

A small exercise in using Adobe In-design for the first time we went though the whole program with the basics of going over the job of each tool. Learning about the different pages with it having a master page where on that anything you insert on the A master page will automatically appear on every page.

To start with this we added 3 columns and boxes which we used as guidelines for the text images and the headline.Using the type tools we inserted the text changing the size font colour and size to fit it with the appropriate medium.  

Final Magazine Layout Page

To experiment with the Image and how to get the text around the Image you deletes all the background Into Photoshop and transport it over track the edges and then alter the type to go around the edges in the measurements you want. I found this very hard to use as it was my first type so I was trying to get familiar with the tools.

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Experimenting with the different tools

Experimenting with the different tools I drew a shape and inserted text onto the path of the shape but also with the shape to experiment with the different functions the software offers.

On my second experiment I In-versed a image into the type which I would normally do in Photoshop and adjusted the shape of the type which i thought was pretty cool. At the moment i'm having slight difficulty in using this software but as I use this more I hopefully will be able to use this easily with no trouble.