From the course: InDesign CC: Designing a Magazine Layout
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Placing dummy text - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign CC: Designing a Magazine Layout
Placing dummy text
- [Instructor] Continuing with our magazine layout, here's the scenario. So, I have placed these low-resolution comping images. I'm trialing out these images just to make sure they work before I commit to purchasing them, and I'm going to be doing a similar thing with the text. Let's imagine, and this is a very common scenario, that our author is working on the text as we speak but he or she hasn't delivered the text yet, but I want to get started designing the text elements, so I'm going to be working with dummy text. And when we've used that dummy text to determine the styles and formatting of our different paragraphs, we are going to swap it for the real text, which hopefully, by that time, will be ready. I'm working on the text layer, which contains the blue frames. Now, these frames, technically, they're graphic frames, but as soon as I click in them with the Type tool, they become text frames. So, one of the first things I need to do is thread them together, or at least, those…
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