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071 Understanding optical margin alignment (and the quote trick) - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
071 Understanding optical margin alignment (and the quote trick)
There is nothing technically wrong with this column of text, but we can make it look far better with a single click. Look at this right margin, we have justified text, and we can see that the hyphens and the commas and so on push the text in, off the edge of the text frame just a little bit. But it's enough that it's visually different. We have sort of an uneven line down the right edge. Don't like that, but look what happens if I select the text frame, go to the Type Menu and choose Story. That opens the Story panel and I can turn on Optical Margin Alignment. When OMA, or Optical Margin Alignment, is turned on, InDesign pushes hyphenation outside of the margins just a little bit, so that you get a more visually even line. It just looks that much better. But it's not just the hyphens and commas and periods and other punctuation, it's every character. InDesign literally analyzes every character and sees whether it should push out a little bit to the left or to the right to make a more…
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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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