Using InDesign Manual 2025

Controlling the stroke and fill

Color poster When you specify Formula Colors on your pages, always choose the colors you want from Walsworth’s Formula Color poster. These printed versions of the colors will match what will actually be printed on your yearbook pages.

You can switch the color that has been assigned to the fill with the color that has been assigned to the stroke using the Toolbox. The bottom portion of the Toolbox contains a Swap Fill and Stroke

double arrow. When this arrow is clicked, the color assigned to the fill will be changed or swapped with the color assigned to the stroke. The keyboard shortcut is Shift + X.

RULERS AND GUIDES Rulers

These measuring tools help you align items on a page. On the Walsworth template, both the vertical and horizontal rulers are preset to picas. Click in the white space on either side of “0” and drag a ruler guide down one side of the page. While holding down the Ctrl key (Windows) or Command key (Mac) and clicking with the mouse, you will bring the ruler guide down across both pages of the spread. Guides Guides are nonprinting elements that help you position objects on a page. InDesign has both page guides and spread guides. Snap to guides This option causes objects to pull toward the nearest guide when they are created, moved or sized. To change the range in which an object will snap to a guide, use Snap to Zone. To change the Snap to Zone, select Edit > Preferences > Guides (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences >Guides (Mac). Removing guides Ruler guides are selectable items that can be moved or deleted. You can remove a guide by pressing the Delete button, or by dragging it back into the ruler and off the page.

USING COLOR ON PAGES Swatches Swatches are predetermined colors. The Swatches palette contains these swatches. When you select colors from the Color Information dialog, these Formula Colors will appear in the Swatches palette. The Swatches palette also makes it easy to apply colors to objects or text in your publication. Process color

Process colors are created by mixing percentages of the four colors used in printing — Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK — also known as CMYK. Always be careful when mixing your own colors because what you see on your computer monitor does not necessarily reflect the color that will be printed in your book,because most computer screens are not calibrated for press match. Each computer may display colors differently. Formula Colors A Formula Color refers to specific blends of CMYK created by Walsworth that can be used on any four color page in your book. There are more than 440 specially blended Walsworth Formula Colors.

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