Graphic Design
	Assignment Six
		Working in InDesign —typesetting for readability
	Setting Type
	1.	Open a new document in InDesign. Give the document three pages. You will only need to use two but Indesign sets the first page apart as the title page. You need to work with a two page spread.
	2.	You will make a custom size document: it must be 8 inches square. Orient it vertically, not that it matters.
	3.	At this point you can determine some of the compositional features of your layout. You can always change them when you want to. Determine where you want your text blocks, how much margin and how many columns. The center of a two page spread is called the gutter. You should leave at least a half inch on each page in the middle of the spread for the fold.  A generic format would be to put a half inch margin all the way around the page and then locate your text blocks anywhere you like. Anyway, start there and click Okay.
	4.	InDesign gives you a tool box on the left, a control panel at the top and a series of expandable tabs on the right. If any of these are not showing, you can get them in the >>window menu at the top. The right side tabs should include a pages tab that shows you all your pages as thumbnail images. You can click on a page and it will come to the main screen. You can also move pages around. Designing in InDesign usually means working with two-page spreads and so they should be kept together.
	5.	There are are drop down menus that contain other features. Some are found on the pages tab.  You can also control click on a page to bring up the menus. Select your two pages in your spread by holding down the shift key when you select each page. Then control>click and  then choose >keep spreads together. That will enable you to add pages or move pages without disturbing your two-page spread.
	6.	Setting text blocks: get the type tool from the tool box, drag a box the will be the width of your column. You can always resize it using the black arrow and dragging an anchor point to scale the box to whatever size you want. When you do this, the type will remain the same size—only the box changes. The cursor will blink in the upper left corner. You can type at this point or paste text that you have already copied. If you add more type than fits into the box, the type will be hidden until you make the box bigger or until you create another text box that you link to the first one. The advantage of a page layout program like InDesign is in linking text blocks so that changes made on one block cause the rest the the text blocks to reformat. If you remove a paragraph, all the columns will adjust. Or if you add a paragraph in the middle of an essay, the type will scroll to fit the new type.
	7.	When you set type in text blocks you create columns. Columns should be linked across pages. When you copy a large section of type to several columns you start with one column and when it is full a red plus sign appears at the lower right of the column. Click on this red plus sign with an arrow and the cursor changes to indicate that more type will be set when you click down. Click down in another column or click and drag another column. The type will continue to be set until it is all placed in columns. In typesetting for readability all the columns should be the same width. Columns should also line up across the top when they are set near the same horizontal line.
	8.	Assigning styles to type works pretty much the same as it does in Illustrator. When you choose the type tool a contextual control panel appears at the top of the window. Here you can set all the pertinent features: font, size, tracking, leading, alignment, color, etc. Actually, alignment or paragraph features are available when you click the paragraph button on the far left side of the control window. You can also access character and paragraph attributes in their respective tabs on the right side (or open the tab for each in the window menu at the top). Tabs can be slid out or back in from the right side window edge where they are stored out of the way.
	9.	The pages tab shows you thumbnails of the pages. You can double click on a page and go to that page. Above the list of pages is a section containing master pages. These pages are not to be used for the general body of you layout. The master pages are used to set features that will be repeated on every page—like page numbers. For your readability layout you don't need to set page numbers on the master pages since you will not be creating more than two pages.  Even so, I will tell you how to set page numbers on the master pages: double click on the A-master, and it will open. Get the type tool and drag a small type box to locate the page number. Then go to the type menu at the top and scroll down to >insert special character, >auto page number. This places an A in the text box. You can assign type characteristics to this A and they will be repeated on every page in the same location. Copy and paste the A onto the adjacent page in the spread. This will place a page number on all the pages of every spread. If you don't want a master item to appear on a page you can release it by selecting the page in the list, clicking while holding down the control key and in the menu that pops up select >override all master items.
	Placing Pictures
	10.	To place a picture on a page go the >file, >place. Make sure that a text block isn't selected or the image will take the place of the text. The curser will change to indicate that a picture will be placed when you click down. Locate the placement and click.
	11.	The picture can be manipulated in several ways. You can move it to a new location. You can resize it. You can crop it and you can relocate the focus of the cropped area. Experiment with the black and white arrows to see what they do. The Black arrow will select the whole image, crop area and picture. The white arrow, depending on what part of the image you select will move either the crop area, the picture within the crop area, or if you select a line segment or an edge of the image you can resize the window. You may have to use the black arrow and drag to select the whole image in order to move the image and its crop area.
	12.	In typesetting for readability the image should not obstruct the text. Do not wrap the type around an image. But I will tell you how to do it anyway: select an image. Then open the text wrap window: >window, >text wrap. You will see in this window five different ways to wrap text. You will probably only use the second and third ones. Select the wrap around the bounding box icon. It will make any overlapping text wrap around the bounding box of the image. You can adjust the dimensions of the bounding box in the little windows in the text wrap window. You can also make text wrap around shapes or you can adjust the bounding box into odd shapes. But again, you can't this and maintain the readability of the typesetting. So don't do it yet.