When you choose a font, you must select both the font family and a specific type style (see Figure 4-3).įont Style Keyboard Shortcuts. InDesign’s user interface for selecting fonts mirrors this approach.
#COMMAND FOR PREVIEW SHORTCUT INDESIGN PRO#
In this book, we used the font family Minion Pro, and the type style Regular, so the font of the body text is “Minion Pro Regular.” A font family is a set of typefaces designed to have a common “look.” A “font,” then, is specified by its font family and type style. To InDesign, fonts are categorized as font “families,” and each family is made up of one or more type styles. Selecting a font in InDesign is different than selecting a font in most other page layout programs. If the panel is already open, but is displaying the paragraph controls, press Command-Option-7/Ctrl-Alt-7. To display the Control panel, press Command-Option-6/CtrlAlt-6. If the panel is already visible, InDesign hides it you may need to press it twice. To display the Character panel and shift the focus to the panel’s Font field, press Command-T/Ctrl-T. The controls in the panels are substantially the same, so we’ll discuss them once.įIGURE 4-2. InDesign’s character formatting controls are found in both the Character panel and the Control panel (see Figure 4-2). In addition to these distinctions, InDesign’s paragraph styles can include character formatting, but apply to entire paragraphs. Leading, for example, is really a property that applies to an entire line of text (InDesign uses only the largest leading value in a line), but we’ll call it “character” formatting, nonetheless, because you can apply it to individual characters. There are areas of overlap in these definitions. Tab settings, indents, paragraph rules, space above, and space after are examples of paragraph formatting. We refer to all formatting that can be applied to a selected range of text as “character” formatting, and refer to formatting that InDesign applies at the paragraph level as “paragraph” formatting. (Longtime QuarkXPress users won’t think of leading as a character format, but we’ll cover that next.) Font, type size, color, and leading are all aspects of character formatting.
#COMMAND FOR PREVIEW SHORTCUT INDESIGN MAC#
Click in the "New Shortcut" field, and press the keyboard shortcut you want to use (I use option-shift-w on my Mac and alt-shift-w on my Windows computer).ĥ. Choose Toggle view setting between default and preview in the list of commandsĤ. InDesign CS3 provides an entry point so that you can change this keyboard shortcut to something that will work all the time, even when you are editing text. Since this is a single-letter keyboard shortcut, it doesn't work if you are editing or typing text with the Type tool.
Unfortunately, the default keyboard shortcut to switch into and out of Preview Mode is "w". I love being able to layout pages with all of this helpful non-printing stuff displayed, but when it gets in the way of being able to visualize my design, I can hide it all with a single keystroke.
Preview Mode hides all non-printing items such as ruler guides, hidden characters, frame edges and text threads. Preview Mode is one of the best interface features of InDesign.
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