InDesign CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide

4. Working with Objects

In This Chapter

Types of Frames

Creating Basic Shapes

Selecting Objects

Moving Objects

Replicating Objects

Resizing Objects

Using the Transform Tools

Using the Transform Panel

Using the Transform Commands

Using the Arrange Commands

Aligning Objects

Smart Dimensions; Smart Spacing

Using the Gap Tool

Grouping and Pasting Into Objects

Using the Measure Tool

Using the Info Panel with Objects

Locking Objects

Selecting Frames

Back in the old days of board mechanicals, advertising agencies and design studios had a production area called the bullpen. It was the people in the bullpen — called bullpen artists — who actually created the mechanical. Most of them were kids just out of design school; the bullpen was usually their ...