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057 Simulating a college notebook

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057 Simulating a college notebook

Hi! I'm Mike Rankin and welcome to this weeks InDesign effect. When it comes to simulating real-life objects, your best guide is to look at those objects in real life, study the details, take measurements if you have to, and then comes the fun work of figuring out how to recreate those things with InDesign's tools. So for example, here I have some notebook paper that I drew in InDesign and I just looked at some real life notebook paper, I measured how far all the rules were, all the sizes, the shapes of the holes and where they were positioned on the page, and I recreated that with InDesign. So let's see how to do that. I'll go to the next page of my document which just has the background and I'll start from scratch. So I'll press that F key on my keyboard to get my Rectangle Frame tool and click in the document and I'm going to make it 8 inches by 10.5 inches, the real size of a piece of note book paper. I'll select the Fill in the Control panel, set it to black, and I really like…

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