Optical Margin Alignment In Adobe InDesign CC
Lesson 29 from: Adobe InDesign MasteryDaniel Walter Scott
Optical Margin Alignment In Adobe InDesign CC
Lesson 29 from: Adobe InDesign MasteryDaniel Walter Scott
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29. Optical Margin Alignment In Adobe InDesign CC
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Overview
1Introduction To Adobe InDesign CC Advanced
02:24 2Getting Started With The Adobe InDesign CC Advanced Class
02:38 3Adjusting Your Workspace For Maximum Amazingness
08:20Fonts
4Setting The Default Font Size For New Documents Adobe InDesign
01:14 5Special Features For Typekit & Open Type Fonts
07:43 6Where To Get Great Free Fonts For Use In InDesign
03:34Mastering Your Fonts In Adobe InDesign CC
03:39 8What The Font - Font Guess In Adobe InDesign CC
06:20 9How To Pick Beautiful Font Pairings In Adobe InDesign CC
02:27 10Quiz - Fonts
Creative Cloud APP
11Free Icons Using Adobe Market In InDesign CC
05:45Color
12How To Use The Color Theme Tool In Adobe InDesign CC
03:13 13Using Color Modes In Adobe InDesign CC
02:37 14Importing Colors & Setting Default Colors In Adobe InDesign CC
06:58 15Finding Great Colours Using Adobe Color For Use In Adobe InDesign CC
01:11 16Appearance Of Black & Proofing Colours
07:59 17Draw Lot Of Shapes At Once InDesign Gridify Live Distribute
13:15 18Quiz - Color
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19How To Make Arrows In Adobe InDesign CC
04:13 20How To Draw Complex Flowers In Adobe InDesign CC
07:25 21Quiz - Drawing
Paragraph Goodness
22How Text Boxes Can Auto-Expand In Adobe InDesign CC With Auto Size
04:41 23Placeholder Text Alternatives In Adobe InDesign CC
05:43 24How To Add Paragraph Borders & Shading In Adobe InDesign CC
09:57 25Paragraph Vs Single Line Composer In Adobe InDesign CC
02:17 26How To Make Paragraphs Span 2 Columns In Adobe InDesign CC
03:00 27Mastering Justification In Adobe InDesign CC
04:42 28Mastering Hyphenation Options Using Adobe InDesign CC
06:54 29Optical Margin Alignment In Adobe InDesign CC
02:25 30The Secret Power Of Keep Options In Adobe InDesign CC
05:00 31Advanced Anchored Objects In Adobe InDesign CC
04:27 32How To Use Conditional Text In Adobe InDesign CC
07:23 33Quiz - Paragraph Goodness
Charts & Infographics
34How To Create Pie Charts & Bar Graphs In Adobe InDesign CC
09:37 35Quiz - Charts & Infographics
Interactive Documents
36The Pros & Cons Of The Various Interactive Types In InDesign CC
08:46 37How To Create An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC
08:48 38How To Add Interactive Page Transitions In Adobe InDesign CC
03:58 39How To Add Navigation To An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC
06:01 40What Is Publish Online In Adobe InDesign CC
06:39 41How To Publish Your Adobe InDesign Publish Online Documents
03:37 42How To Add Video To Adobe InDesign CC Documents
06:56 43How To Create Interactive Button Triggered Animations In InDesign CC
05:53 44How To Make A Multi State Object In Adobe InDesign CC
03:36 45How To Add Adobe Animate CC To InDesign CC Files
03:39 46Adding Maps & Calendars To Interactive Documents In InDesign CC
02:52 47How To Create QR Codes In Adobe InDesign CC
02:49 48Quiz - Interactive Documents
Keyboard Shortcuts
49Keyboard Shortcuts In Adobe InDesign CC That Will Change Your Life
11:04 50Keyboard Shortcuts
Long Documents
51How To Automatically Place Lots Of Text Onto Multiple Pages In InDesign CC
08:07 52How To Make A Cross Reference In Adobe InDesign CC
06:33 53How To Create An Index In Adobe InDesign CC
05:21 54Add Document Name Automatically To The Page In InDesign Using Text Variables
05:47 55How To Use The Adobe InDesign CC Book Feature
04:53 56Quiz - Long Documents
Preferences
57Changing Preferences For Advanced InDesign Users
05:24Workflow Speed Tips
58How To Speed Up Your Workflow For Advanced InDesign CC Users Styles
03:34Styles
59Why Should I Use Character Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
04:09 60Advanced Paragraph Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
01:57 61How To Use & Map Word Styles In With Adobe InDesign Styles
03:18 62How To Create Nested Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
04:08 63How To Create A Grep Style In Adobe InDesign CC
05:58 64How To Use A Next Style In Adobe InDesign CC
05:27 65Advanced Object Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
07:51 66Quiz - Styles
Multiple Documents
67Best Practices For Working Across Multiple Documents In Adobe InDesign
10:06Images
68How To Use Adobe Stock With Adobe InDesign CC
03:16 69How To Crop Images Inside Of Text In Adobe InDesign CC
04:11 70Using Adobe Comp CC To Make InDesign Layouts On Your Mobile Phone Or Ipad
03:47 71Quiz - Images
CC Libraries
72Advanced Use Of CC Libraries In Adobe InDesign CC
09:40Photoshop & Illustrator
73How To Get The Most Of Photoshop & Illustrator In Adobe InDesign CC
13:32Forms
74How To Create A PDF Form Using Adobe InDesign CC
21:17 75Quiz - Forms
Pages
76Advanced Use Of The Pages Panel In Adobe InDesign CC
08:22 77How To Place InDesign Documents Inside Of Each Other
01:55 78Quiz - Pages
Scripts
79How To Use And Install Scripts In Adobe InDesign CC
08:42Speed Up InDesign
80How To Speed Up InDesign When It’s Running Really Slow
07:34 81Quiz - Speed Up InDesign
Exporting & Printing Tricks
82Advanced Exporting & Printing Tricks For Adobe InDesign CC
02:32 83Quiz - Exporting & Printing Tricks
Next Steps
84BONUS: Software Updates
03:42 85What To Do Once You’ve Finished Your Advanced InDesign CC Training Class
01:04Final Quiz
86Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Optical Margin Alignment In Adobe InDesign CC
Hi there in this video, we're going to look at optical margin alignment. Let's first figure out how to turn it on and off and we'll describe what it does. Then let's get a window and let's go down to type and tables and there's one there called story, this little story panel. Okay, just has this one little sitting in it. And what I'm going to do with my black arrow is click on this block of text here, this story and at the moment if I turn on my W key so I can see the columns, you can see nothing escapes the edges of this column. All the way down here and all the way down this side. Everything lines up okay. But visually I turn the W off, you can kind of see it kind of ducks in a little bit, even though technically it lines up perfectly visually. It doesn't quite that's what this does. So with its selected. If I turn it on and turn it off, can you see kind of just pushes out? Let's turn the W key back on, see the hyphens end up kind of poking out a little bit to the right. Same with th...
ese bullets here. Watch the bullets, I'll turn it on and off. Okay. You see the bullets just kind of hang out a little bit more and it just gives you a bit more of a visual lining up rather than a technical pixel by pixel one. Okay, so great for justified lines. It's also really good for say headings. Okay, let's say that be doesn't really work If I use a W or a Y or a V. Anything that has this kind of like big, see this big negative space here. Okay. Kind of visually technically kind of lines up but it does, it ends up with this big kind of like I don't know gap here. So with that selected, I'm going to turn my optical marginal Hyman on and you can see the white hangs out quite a bit. Now. Now, what you might have to do depending on the size of your text, you might have to increase this up and down to get a kind of more a stronger feel. Okay, so if you go quite low or quite high, it will change depending on the font size of you. So try and match the font size is about 90. So I've cranked mine all the way up to 72 And down the bottom here with it on, it should be about 12 or whatever. You've got your body copy font to. It also works great for things like quotations. So you've got some pull quotes kind of around the place. If I add this quote here, you'll notice that if I zoom in. Okay, can you see the quote hangs off the edge as well? So wise, W. S. V. S quotation marks, bullets hyphens all kind of benefit by using this optical margin alignment and what you could do is you could just make it part of your body copy paragraph style, which will get included automatically if you use it. And it's just a simple thing to do if this kind of stuff worries you. If it doesn't don't worry about it and let's move on to the next video.
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