Zooming in InDesign
Sometimes, it’s useful to be able to zoom in and get a closer look at your work in InDesign, as it can make life easier when aligning things, checking spelling, and completing a multitude of other common tasks. In other cases, it might be more helpful to zoom out and get a good overall view of your document.
In this recipe, we are going to look at how to zoom in and out in your document, snap the document to fit the screen size you are working on, and simply zoom straight to 100% size.
Getting ready
To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and open a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe.
How to do it…
To zoom in and out precisely within your document, follow these steps:
- We are going to start this recipe with one of the simplest and most useful tricks in InDesign and one that also works in both Photoshop and Illustrator too. Whatever part of your document is currently...