Basics
Guides set up in a document to show the number
of columns on a page
What is a 'Column grid?'
One example is change foreign spelling such as British English to US English throughout the document
What is 'Find/Change?'
Can apply the same font specs as well as colors
What is the 'Eyedropper tool?'
Determines the formatting of a paragraph.
Among the options are left aligned, right aligned, centered, and a variety of justified options.
What are 'Alignment options?'
A character or a space equal to the letter ‘m’ in width
What is an 'Em dash or Em space?'
A type panel used to apply different
character conditions including: font, size, weight,
color, and other conditions
What is the 'Character Panel?'
Style created for certain copy within a paragraph and can be applied and/or changed using the correct styles panel: Italic for example
What is 'A character style?'
Can draw or create straight or curved open paths
What is the 'pen tool?'
Type aligned to both the left and right sides, but the last line can be any of these:
left, right, centered, or justified full out.
What is 'Justified type?'
Term used for the type spec for the main text style of a document
What is 'Body Text?'
The suffix for a native indesign file.
What is '.indd?'
One unit of a table
What is a 'cell?'
The menu to control drop shadows,
transparency, feathers and other special
effects.
What is the 'Effects Panel?'
Tool for creating uniform typographic formats which can applied to a document accurately over and over.
What is a 'Paragraph Style?'
The process to alter the spacing of the letters is a line or paragraph
What is 'Tracking?'
Extra space around your page to allow for any artwork printing to the edge of the page. It is a safety margin for the printing press.
What is 'Bleed?'
Tool use to keep text from crashing into images
Wha tis 'Text Wrap?'
Where you can find the Parent pages
What is the 'Pages Panel?'
Add a very large letter at the beginning of a paragraph
What is a 'Drop cap?'
Current font type technology, standard for both Mac and PCs. Has the most variables, like glyphs and fractions
What is 'OpenType?'
Frame intended to contain text
What is a 'Text Frame?'
Space inside the cell, around the content
What is 'Cell Padding?'
Object menu where you set all the rules for a text frame
What are 'Text Frame Options?'
Lower right hand corner graphic:
2 columns of lines- aligned together
What is 'Align to the Baseline grid?'
Recurring copy- placed at the bottom
of the page, may include the page number
What is the 'Footer?'