Converting Keyboard Shortcuts


If you're switching from QuarkXPress and committed to learning InDesign's keyboard shortcuts, skim Table C-1 to see the primary differences.

Table C-1: Keyboard Shortcuts Translated from QuarkXPress to InDesign

QuarkXPress Shortcut

Result

InDesign Equivalent

Control or Ctrl

Zoom in

z +spacebar or Ctrl+spacebar

Control+Option or Ctrl+Alt

Zoom out

Option+ z +spacebar or Ctrl+Alt+spacebar

Option or Alt

Page grabber hand

H, or Option or Alt

Option+Shift+ z +Y or

Preferences

z +K or Ctrl+K_Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Y

z +E or Ctrl+E

Get Text/Picture

z +D or Ctrl+D for Place

z +Shift+F or Ctrl+Shift+F

Paragraph formats

Option+ z +T or Ctrl+Alt+T

z +Shift+D or Ctrl+Shift+D

Character formats

z +T or Ctrl+T

F11

Style Sheets palette

F11 (Character Styles), Shift+F11 (Paragraph Styles)

z +L or Ctrl+W

Spelling (word)

z +I or Ctrl+I

z +M or Ctrl+M

Modify dialog box

No equivalent

z +K or Ctrl+K

Delete selection

Delete

z +D or Ctrl+D

Duplicate

Option+Shift+ z +D or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D

Option+ z +D or Ctrl+Alt+D

Step and Repeat

Shift+ z +V or Ctrl+Shift+V

F6

Lock/Unlock

z +L or Ctrl+L (lock), Option+ z +L or Ctrl+Alt+L (unlock)

z +U or Ctrl+U

Ungroup

Shift+ z +G or Ctrl+Shift+G

z +, or Ctrl+,

Space Align

F8

Shift+F5

Send to Back

Shift+ z +[ or Ctrl+Shift+[

Option+Shift+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+F5

Send Backward

z +[ or Ctrl+[

F5

Bring to Front

Shift+ z +] or Ctrl+Shift+]

Option+F5 or Ctrl+F5

Bring Forward

z +] or Ctrl+]

Document differences

By and large, documents in InDesign and QuarkXPress are the same. You have master pages, layers , and pages. You can also set bleeds for objects that go beyond the page boundary. But there are some differences:

  • InDesign lets you specify a slug area, which reserves space during printing for the printer's marks.

  • QuarkXPress 6 permits several layouts in one document file, called a project, so you can mix layouts with different page sizes. InDesign does not permit that.

  • The InDesign master text frame is not the same as QuarkXPress's automatic text box on a master page. You cannot flow text into a QuarkXPress automatic text box while you're working on a master page ‚ instead, an empty text box is placed on each of your layout pages for you automatically. Although you can have QuarkXPress flow text into automatic text boxes across pages as you add pages to your layout, you can also place text in these boxes individually, without them being linked. An InDesign master text frame is linked automatically from page to page and is not meant for holding text that does not flow from page to page.

  • QuarkXPress 5 and 6 also support Web documents, which InDesign does not.

  • InDesign can generate TOCs only based on paragraph style sheets, not on character style sheets. This means you can't create other kinds of lists, such as a list of companies in a magazine article or research report, based on the use of character style sheets. InDesign doesn't have a flexible Lists feature as QuarkXPress does, just the Table of Contents feature that is essentially a subset of QuarkXPress's Lists feature. However, you can use the InDesign Table of Contents feature to create some lists besides TOCs. Also, the level of formatting you can achieve over TOC entries in InDesign is greater than in QuarkXPress.

  • The InDesign index features are similar to those in QuarkXPress, though the InDesign Index pane and QuarkXPress Index palette have very different interfaces.

  • The corner-style feature in InDesign (Object Corner Effects) is similar to the text-box and picture-box variants in QuarkXPress, which offer the same selection of corners except for the Fancy option. In QuarkXPress, you create, or convert, a box to a variant that has one of these corner effects, while in InDesign, you apply the corner effect to a frame.

  • InDesign's nested frames are similar to QuarkXPress's constrained boxes ‚ the biggest difference is that, to nest a frame in InDesign, you paste a frame into another (Edit Paste Into, or Option+ z +V or Ctrl+Alt+V). In QuarkXPress, you choose Item Constrain.

Working with objects rather than items

In QuarkXPress, you're used to items such as text boxes, picture boxes, lines, and maybe text paths. In InDesign, you have paths and frames, with the only difference being that frames contain graphics or text. You can therefore, make a one-to-one relationship between text boxes and text frames, and picture boxes and picture frames. Just keep in mind that, with InDesign, you're not restricted to using boxes for content ‚ you can fill any path , even an open one, with text or graphics and have it become a frame. And if you don't make a box (or the right kind of box) up front, you can still import graphics and text in InDesign (unlike in QuarkXPress, which requires you to change the box type first).

While selecting and manipulating objects with tools, remember the following:

  • Use the Selection tool to move objects or resize frames. It's kind of like QuarkXPress's Item tool.

  • Use the Direct Selection tool to reshape objects, work with graphics, and change the endpoints of lines (it's kind of like QuarkXPress's Content tool).

  • When reshaping objects, you can use the Pen tool, Anchor Point tool, and Remove Anchor Point tool in addition to the Direct Selection tool.

  • You can't just click on master-page objects to select them on the document pages: Instead, use Shift+ z +click or Ctrl+Shift+click to select them.

When modifying objects, remember the following:

  • Users of QuarkXPress may find InDesign's object-location approach to be a little strange . In QuarkXPress, a picture's X+ and Y+ coordinates are relative to the box that contains it; in InDesign, the X+ and Y+ coordinates are relative to the upper-left corner of the page. (I'm assuming here that you haven't moved the document's ruler origin, which by default is in the upper-left corner of a page or spread.)

  • InDesign CS adds a clone of QuarkXPress's Measurements palette, called the Control palette in InDesign (Window Control, or Option+ z +6 or Ctrl+Alt+6). You can also use the Transform pane in InDesign (Window Transform, or F9). Use these tools for the equivalent of QuarkXPress's Modify dialog box's Box and Line panes.

  • To specify runaround, choose Window Types & Tables Text Wrap, or press Option+ z +W or Ctrl+Alt+W, to open the Text Wrap pane.

  • To specify attributes of text frames, choose Object Text Frame Options, or press z +B or Ctrl+B, to open the Text Frame Options dialog box.

  • The InDesign Shear tool is not the same as the QuarkXPress Skew tool ‚ Shear both slants and rotates an object, while Skew just slants it. To simulate the QuarkXPress Skew tool, hold the Shift key while you move the mouse horizontally when using the InDesign Shear tool ‚ this ensures that there is no rotation. You can also use the Shear fields in the Control palette or Transform pane to only slant an object.

Flowing text

Once you learn how to flow text in InDesign, you'll find it's easier and more flexible than QuarkXPress. It's easy to get stuck and to restrict yourself to QuarkXPress techniques. To prevent that, keep these differences in mind:

  • To import a text file, use File Place, or z +D or Ctrl+D. You can also drag files and text from the desktop or any application that supports drag and drop.

  • You do not need to create or select a text frame before you import text; you'll be able to create or select a text frame after choosing the file to import.

  • InDesign does not have linking tools. To flow text from frame to frame, use a selection tool to click the out ports and in ports on text frames. (Make sure View Show Text Threads is checked.)

  • To flow text and add pages automatically, check Master Text Frame in the New Document dialog box (File New Document, or z +N or Ctrl+N). Then, you'll need to Shift+ z +click or Ctrl+Shift+click the master text frame on a document page. Finally, Option+click or Alt+click the loaded text icon. See Chapter 16 for complete information about flowing text.

Editing text

A few minor differences exist when it comes to editing and selecting text:

  • InDesign doesn't support "smart space" the way QuarkXPress 4.0 and later do, so when you double-click to select, then cut and paste a word, you won't also select the trailing space.

  • In QuarkXPress, clicking three times in text selects the line, and clicking four times selects the entire paragraph. In InDesign, clicking three times selects the paragraph.

  • To type special characters such as ƒ ±, ‚ , or ‚ , you can use Type Glyphs rather than system utilities or key combinations.

  • The control for showing invisible characters such as spaces, tabs, and paragraph returns is Type Show Hidden Characters, or press Option+ z +I or Ctrl+Alt+I.

  • InDesign lets you select from various Western European languages for spell checking and hyphenation ‚ you first apply a Language to text selections via the Character or Character Styles panes. The Passport edition of QuarkXPress has a similar feature to specify the hyphenation and spelling language, but not the standard version of QuarkXPress.

Formatting text

In general, formatting text in InDesign will feel comfortable to QuarkXPress users. You'll miss those nice, big Character and Paragraph Attributes dialog boxes (featuring real words, not icons!), but you have most of the same power. Review these differences, and keep them in mind while formatting text:

  • Use the Character pane (Type Character, or z +T or Ctrl+T) to format highlighted characters. You'll notice there are no type style buttons ‚ InDesign requires you to choose the appropriate version of a typeface rather than attributes such as bold and italic, while other type styles are listed in the Character pane's palette menu.

  • Leading is a character-level format in InDesign, therefore the controls are in the Character pane rather than the Paragraph pane as you might have come to expect. Fortunately, you can change the leading behavior by selecting the Text pane of the Preferences dialog box and checking Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs. Checking this box will make InDesign match the behavior of leading in QuarkXPress. Leading is always measured from baseline to baseline in InDesign.

  • Unlike QuarkXPress, you can stroke and fill characters in InDesign.

  • Use the Paragraph pane (Type Paragraph, or Option+ z +T or Ctrl+Alt+T) to format selected paragraphs; the palette menu includes additional commands for adding rules and controlling hyphenation.

  • InDesign lets you apply OpenType settings to OpenType fonts, using the palette menu of the Character pane or the OpenType Features pane of the Character Styles pane. QuarkXPress can use OpenType fonts but apply only standard formatting to them.

  • InDesign does not have H&J sets, so set up your hyphenation using the Paragraph pane and save your settings in paragraph style sheets.

  • Use the Tabs pane (Type Tabs, or Shift+ z +T or Ctrl+Shift+T) to set tabs for selected paragraphs.

  • To create style sheets, use the new commands in the palette menus on the Character pane (Type Character Styles, or Shift+F11) and the Paragraph pane (Type Paragraph Styles, or F11). To share style sheets with other documents, use the Load commands in the same menus.

  • Applying style sheets to text with local formatting has the opposite effect as it has in QuarkXPress. Style sheets always wipe out local formatting when first applied ‚ unless you hold the Option or Alt key when applying the style sheet. If you add local formatting later and want to revert the text to the style sheet's formats, click the style sheet twice. (Note that applying No Style then the style sheet does not work, as it does in QuarkXPress.)

  • InDesign imports all style sheets when you use one of the Load commands. It does not let you select specific style sheets for import, as QuarkXPress does. That can add a lot of irrelevant style sheets to your InDesign document, unfortunately .

  • Unlike Windows QuarkXPress, InDesign for Windows supports automatic ligatures in Windows fonts that have them.

  • InDesign has no equivalent to QuarkXPress's fraction-building tool.

  • InDesign has no equivalent to QuarkXPress's Underline Styles. Instead, specify custom underlines and strikethroughs as part of a character style sheet. To add stripes and dashed lines, open the Strokes pane (Window Stroke, or F10) and select the Stroke Styles option from the palette menu.

  • QuarkXPress converts may be surprised at the seemingly large kerning and tracking values produced by all of the program's kerning and tracking methods . Keep in mind that InDesign lets you adjust space in 0.001-em units ( 1 / 1,000 of an em). In QuarkXPress, for example, the kerning unit is 0.005 em ( 1 / 200 of an em). So QuarkXPress users should not be surprised to see kerning and tracking values that are 10 to 20 times greater than you're used to ‚ you're working with multiples of finer increments .

Working with tables

Recent editions of QuarkXPress and InDesign have added significant table formatting capabilities. Among the differences:

  • InDesign does a good job of importing Word tables and Excel spreadsheets as tables, unlike QuarkXPress, which does not support tables during import without extra-cost add-on software.

  • InDesign tables and QuarkXPress tables have several differences. Although both treat tables as collections of cells, InDesign offers more formatting options for cell strokes than QuarkXPress does. InDesign has more controls for text and row placement than QuarkXPress offers. InDesign also imports Word, Excel, and RTF tables, while QuarkXPress does not. But QuarkXPress offers more control over the flow of text among cells in a table ‚ InDesign doesn't let you flow text from one cell to another, for example, much less control the order of that flow.

  • In one way, InDesign is more savvy about text-to-table conversion than QuarkXPress is, since InDesign lets you choose any string as the column or row separator during conversion (just enter that string in the appropriate field). But in another way, InDesign is less savvy: QuarkXPress lets you "pivot" data during conversion, so you can swap columns and rows for a better fit.

Working with graphics

Importing and manipulating graphics in InDesign is very similar to QuarkXPress. As long as you remember to use the Direct Selection tool to select a graphic rather than its frame, you and the InDesign graphics features will get along fine. Differences between the programs include the following:

  • To import a graphics file in InDesign, use File Place, or z +D or Ctrl+D. You can also drag files in from the desktop or other programs if InDesign supports their file formats.

  • You do not need to create or select a graphics frame before you import a graphic; you'll be able to create or select a graphics frame after choosing the file to import.

  • Use the Control palette (Window Control, or Option+ z +6 or Ctrl+Alt+6) or the Transform pane (Window Transform, or F9) to rotate, scale, and skew graphics. You can create clipping paths by choosing Object Clipping Paths or pressing Option+Shift+ z +K or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K.

  • To automatically scale a graphic to fit within its frame ‚ proportionally or not ‚ use the Fitting commands in the Object menu or their keyboard commands. As a bonus, you get a Fit Frame to Picture command, a task you have to perform manually in QuarkXPress.

  • The InDesign Stroke Styles feature (accessed via the Strokes pane's palette menu) looks and works very much like the QuarkXPress Dashes & Stripes feature. The major difference is that InDesign has a separate option for dotted lines.

  • Although InDesign doesn't have background, frame, and contents icons in its Swatches pane to let you select where color is applied, as QuarkXPress does, InDesign lets you determine what component of the image gets the color based on how you apply the color: Drag a color swatch onto an object to change the foreground color. Click a picture frame and then the Fill or Stroke icon in the Tool palette, then select a color from the Swatches pane to change the background or frame color , respectively. Furthermore, you can use the Control palette's Select Container and Select Contents icons to choose whether the image background or contents, respectively, are colored when you click a swatch.

  • InDesign offers a customizable drop-shadow tool (Object Drop Shadow, or Option+ z +M or Ctrl+Alt+M) that lets you determine the shadow angle, distance, and lighting effects. QuarkXPress's drop shadow is fixed to one setting. Although InDesign's drop shadow can be applied to any object, not just a text frame, it cannot be applied to selected text. By contrast, QuarkXPress's drop shadow can be applied only to selected text as a character attribute.

  • InDesign lets you feather the edges of objects, to create soft outlines and other lighting-oriented effects by choosing Object Feather. QuarkXPress has no equivalent.

  • QuarkXPress has no equivalent to InDesign's transparency settings, which let you make objects transparent or semitransparent, allowing a wide variety of special effects. QuarkXPress users instead must rely on such settings in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for imported pictures and do without them for objects created in QuarkXPress. InDesign also provides controls for how overlapping transparent objects are output, since they can sometimes interfere with printing.

  • To track the location of graphic files, use the Links pane (File Links, Shift+ z +D or Ctrl+Shift+D).

  • InDesign's relink function is not as smart as QuarkXPress's equivalent Picture Usage. If you have multiple broken links to the same file in an InDesign document, you must relink each one manually from the Links pane. QuarkXPress will automatically fix all links to the same file as soon as you correct any link to it. That's another reason to use InDesign's automatic fix when you open a document and InDesign identifies that links are broken or out of date.

  • QuarkXPress uses a very different approach to changing direction points from smooth to corner: It has iconic buttons in its Measurement palette that let you easily convert segment and corner types. The InDesign approach is more efficient in that it uses one tool and relies on a mouse-based tool (since you're likely using the mouse when you edit a shape), but it does require a bit more getting used to initially.

  • The Pathfinder in InDesign options to connect paths are similar to QuarkXPress's Merge options for paths.

Manipulating pages

You'll find the controls for working with document pages and master pages to be quite similar to QuarkXPress ‚ if not slightly better. Once you realize the differences and start working, you can take advantage of InDesign's improvements. The differences mostly relate to guides and using the InDesign Pages pane rather than the QuarkXPress Document Layout palette:

  • InDesign provides three methods for creating guides: Drag them off the ruler as you do in QuarkXPress, double-click the ruler where you want a guide, or choose Layout Create Guides.

  • To delete guides, you need to select them and click Delete. (To select all guides on a page, press Option+ z +G or Ctrl+Alt+G.)

  • Use the Pages pane (Window Pages, or F12) as you would the QuarkXPress Document Layout palette (called the Page Layout palette in QuarkXPress 6). To place more than two pages side-by-side, you'll need to use the Keep Spreads Together command in the pane's palette menu.

  • If you're missing the QuarkXPress Page menu, look for your favorite commands in the InDesign Layout menu and in the Pages pane's palette menu. There's a bonus in the Layout menu: an Insert Page Number command (Option+ z +N or Ctrl+Alt+N) so you don't have to remember that odd z +3 or Ctrl+3 that QuarkXPress requires.

  • You can base one master page on another, the same way you can base style sheets on each other.

  • To share master pages among documents, you can drag a master page icon into another document window.

Working with color

Not to intimidate you, but color will confound you (although Photoshop users will have an easier transition). Basically, try to forget everything you know about creating and applying colors in QuarkXPress. Here's what you need to know to work with colors in InDesign:

  • Most of your work with colors happens through the Swatches pane (Window Swatches, or F5) ‚ not through the Colors pane as QuarkXPress users might think.

  • To create colors, use the New Swatches command in the Swatches pane's palette menu. You cannot create Hexachrome colors in InDesign.

  • To apply colors, first click the Stroke or Fill button on the Toolbox to specify where the color goes on the selected object. Then click a color in the Swatches pane.

  • Use the Colors pane (Window Colors, or F6) to specify a shade (tint) of a color.

  • InDesign's Paper color is equal to the QuarkXPress White color. Both programs use the color None for transparency, but InDesign provides None in both the Swatches pane and as a button on the Toolbox.

  • To share colors among documents, drag a colored object into another document window.

Printing and output

InDesign and QuarkXPress offer many of the same output capabilities ‚ such as print styles (called print presets in InDesign), PDF export, color calibration, and color separation support. But there are some notable differences beyond the different organization of their Print dialog boxes:

  • You cannot print hidden layers in InDesign CS as you can in QuarkXPress 6. You must make them visible before printing.

  • To suppress printout of individual objects, use the Attributes pane (Window Attributes) and choose Nonprinting. You can also hide layers using the Layers pane (Window Layers, or F7), which works pretty much like QuarkXPress's Layers feature.

  • InDesign's Thumbnails option is more flexible than QuarkXPress's, letting you choose the number of thumbnails per page.

  • Note that InDesign does not have any options to change image contrast or line-screen element for gray-scale and black-and-white images, as QuarkXPress does. You'll need to apply such effects in an image editor.

  • InDesign and QuarkXPress offer similar levels of color output controls, but InDesign does have several options QuarkXPress does not. One is setting ink density, another is automatic calculation of screen angles for spot colors. A third is the ability to more accurately preview documents with overprinting colors. InDesign also can apply black-point compensation as part of its color calibration during output. And InDesign lets you save your color-management preferences for use in other documents.




Adobe InDesign CS Bible
Adobe InDesign CS3 Bible
ISBN: 0470119381
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 344
Authors: Galen Gruman

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