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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

You're reading from   Designing the Adobe InDesign Way Explore 100+ recipes for creating stunning layouts with the leading desktop publishing software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074438
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andy Gardiner Andy Gardiner
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings 2. Chapter 2: Working with Text in InDesign FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating and Using Tables 4. Chapter 4: Using the InDesign Frame Tools 5. Chapter 5: Adding Images to Your Documents 6. Chapter 6: Taking Images Further 7. Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Parent Pages 8. Chapter 8: Working with Colors and Gradients 9. Chapter 9: Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles 10. Chapter 10: Generating and Updating a Table of Contents 11. Chapter 11: Creating Interactivity and PDF Forms 12. Chapter 12: Using and Collaborating with CC Libraries 13. Chapter 13: Preflighting and Outputting 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance

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:

  1. 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...
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