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067 Using Gravity to simulate perspective - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
067 Using Gravity to simulate perspective
InDesign lets you transform text and objects in a variety of ways including scaling, rotating, and skewing them, but there's no way to apply the effect of perspective to an object, like making this text appear like it's on a plane extending into the distance. And Illustrator can do it, but not InDesign, but InDesign does offer a way that you can kind of fake it, especially if you want to affect text. Let me show you. To apply a fake perspective effect, I need to put my text on a path. So I am going to grab my Pen tool and I'm going to click, then Shift+Click and then, this is the weird part, click again. So I get kind of a pseudo- triangle effect going on here. Now I will select my Type tool, grab all that text with a Command+A or Ctrl+A, cut it, switch to the type on a Path tool and click on my path. Finally, I'll paste with a Command+V or Ctrl+V. It's the same text but it's on a path now, and that allows me to apply a pseudo-perspective effect. To get the perspective, I will switch…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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