From the course: Designing a Book
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Designing the spine - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Book
Designing the spine
- [Instructor] So we are now ready to add the spine text. Let's just take the text that we have on the cover, select that, copy it, click and drag, paste it into a new frame, command Y won't show us that text in the story editor. Let's make sure that we have hidden characters shown. We can see where those line breaks are, which we no longer need so I can delete them. And we don't need that line nor do we need that line and we want to separate the title and author name with a tab rather than a paragraph mark. I'll now close the story editor. There's the text in my text frame. I'm going to rotate this text frame through 90 degrees clockwise. Now I'm going to position it in my spine area. Let's turn on the guides. I want to make sure that it extends all the way to the bleed at the top and all the way to the bleed at the bottom and that its width is exactly 3/4 of an inch. Now the height of the frame actually corresponds to the width of the spine so it's in the height field I'm going to…
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