April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 42m
English
We can exercise a great deal of control over how our content looks even before we adjust any typographic options (leading, kerning, and such). For more on typographic features, see Compendium chapter 3, “Type & Text Styles” (page 194).
The options under discussion here are adjusted without having to use the Type tool at all. To judge some of these features, you may wish to have some content to play with. Draw a text frame with the Type tool, then right-click and choose Fill with Placeholder Text. Don’t like it? Undo, then do it again. It’ll be randomly different each time.
A reliable, if slow, method for switching between a frame and its content is to simply switch between ...
Read now
Unlock full access