From the course: InDesign Secrets
139 Faking bold and italic when the font family doesn’t have one - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
139 Faking bold and italic when the font family doesn’t have one
Sometimes, to get the effect that you want in InDesign, you have to cheat it a little bit. Let me show you a couple of my favorite cheats having to do with making fake bolds and fake italics. You might be coming from a background of fake bolds and fake italics are going to print horribly, they are going to be all pixelated, they're going to look stupid. While they won't be pixelated, they might look stupid, but they won't be pixelated. Because all we're doing is we are doing some transforms or some strokes to postscript paths, just like any shape, that's what we're going to be doing with our type. Let's say, for example, that in this pull quote here, I like reading e-mail. As long as it's an interesting e-mail. Well, you heard how I put some emphasis on interesting, so I'd like to make this word interesting italic. So I double-click the word, go to my font menu, and no italic. So, this might happen, or often happens to me when you're working with dingbats. You want to make an italic dingbat for some reason, usually they don't have italic or bold or bold italic. So, how do you fake an italic? This is probably the easiest one to do, select the word and then, up here in the control panel, if you are in character mode, if you see the font then you are in character mode, you'll see a skew. Look they even added false italic here. I think that's new in the tool tip. Interesting. So with it selected, you can go ahead and type in some sort of angle here and now it's fully endorsed here by Adobe, I guess. I'm going to type in, usually 15 degrees or 20 degree would work. If you press Shift+Enter or Shift+Return rather than Return, you can keep the field in focus. So, you can try different settings, so that's 20, so if I type 15 Shift+Enter, that's a little less, that looks pretty good, I like that. There we go, some fake italic where there was no italic before. Let's make this back to zero and say that we want it to be bold, of course, you can combine italic and bold, if you wanted to. To make something bold usually involves fattening up the type, which means you have to add a stroke to it. Now, depending on the font, sometimes, you can get away with simply adding a stroke right from the swatches panel. Or, of course, it's also available up here in the control panel. So, here, let's just do it right from here. So, there's usually no stroke on type. It just has a fill. But I am going to give it a stroke and I am going to give it a stroke of the same color as the fill. So, if it's black type, you give it a black stroke. This is this beautiful orange color. Now, with this particular font, it looks pretty horrendous. Well, maybe, it's really gumming up over here in the Gs but I guess you'd call it black or as, as, as opposed to bold or ultra bold. It's a little too much. So, if adding a stroke of the same color doesn't do it for you, then Undo, and you can get finer control if you convert the type to outlines. That way you have the ability to apply a stroke, but add a stroke of your own choosing. However wide you want that stroke to be. To convert type to outline select it and then go to the Type menu and choose Create Outlines. That changes it from editable type into a filled shape, and you can see the filled shape if you select it with the Direct Selection tool, see? But it looks exactly the same, and it'll print exactly the same. They have grouped all of those shapes and then pasted it in. I'm going to quick write on it with the Selection tool as an anchored object. Now we can go ahead and apply a stroke to everything inside this anchored object. So, I'm going to come here and say, I want to apply a stroke. And now we have this field lights up where I can actually change the stroke weight. And even that looks really good, doesn't it, at one point stroke? Doesn't look bad, but let's say that I wanted it a little bit thinner. Let's try 0.5 stroke, nice. Now, let's say that I also wanted to also make this italic, how would you make it italic? Well, you could've started out by making it italic with the Skew command and then converting it to outlines, but you can also skew this, well now it's called Shearing, when you shear an object. We're going to shear this. You can shear something with the Shear tool. I bet you didn't know there's a shear tool. Yes, there it is. You could also do it with the Free Transform tool. If you start dragging with the Free Transform tool, and then hold down the Cmd on the Mac or the Ctrl on PC as you drag. But it's a little hard to control. You see what's happening here? If you hold down the Shift key, then you get this kind of crazy effects. So, I'm just going to undo all that and instead go back, select this guy with the Selection tool. And let's do it numerically from the Object menu. Go to Object>Transform and choose Shear. And now we can go ahead and say we want to Shear it on the horizontal axis. Make sure that preview's turned on. And let's try 15 degrees again. That looks good. So now we have a bold italic. Pretty good, fake bold and italic, if I say so myself. It's not quite as convenient as having a bold, italic and a bold italic versions of the typeface, but there are so many faces out there that don't have those, it's really great to know how to do a fake bold and italic when the situation calls for it.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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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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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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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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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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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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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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