From the course: InDesign CC: Designing a Magazine Layout
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Copyfitting text - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign CC: Designing a Magazine Layout
Copyfitting text
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to show you how I do my final copy fitting. So let's say that the article is completely finished and we now need to fit perfectly into our space. Currently, it's running a few lines short. We don't need to guess how many because we can turn on our guides by pressing W, and then turn on our baseline grid, command, option, quote, and we can just count the number of lines. One, two, three, four, five, six. So there are numerous solutions we can bring to bear on this, but the easiest in this case is to get these three text columns on the last spread and move them each down two lines, and that should address the problem. Now, rather than move the text frames, what I want to do is add a text wrap to the images, so that when we increase the size of the images, it will repel the text frames, and it will move them down in increments of our grid. Thinking more long-term, and beyond just this one article, there are going to be other occasions where I want…
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