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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects

047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects

InDesign offers incredible precision when it comes to placing objects on your page, but there's one aspect of a layout that is still a pain. It's hard to position one object in exact distance away from another one. I know that sounds crazy, but it's true. Fortunately, there are a couple ways to do it. I'm going to show you two. The first is using math. That's right. We're going to do math in InDesign. It's not too hard, don't worry. I'm going to zoom in here so we can see this a little bit better and I want to put exactly 1 centimeter of space between these two objects; that text frame and this graphic frame. To do that, I'm first going to select the text frame, go up to the Control panel, and set the reference point to be any of these points along the bottom part of the Reference Point Icon. When I do that, the Y value in the Control panel reflects the bottom of that text frame, where that bottom is. So I can select that value and copy it to the clipboard. Now I'm going to move this…

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