InDesign also lets you apply horizontal or vertical scaling to text. This distorts the text to increase its height or width . This changes the type from the original design of the characters. Typographic purists (such as this author) disdain distorting text. The effects of applying either vertical scaling or horizontal scaling to text.
To apply horizontal scaling:
To apply vertical scaling:
Skewing allows you to slant or tilt text . This is also called false italic because it resembles the slant of italic text. You can apply negative and positive skew to text to create a special effect.
To skew text:
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