Chapter 6. Styling Objects
Here’s where you get a chance to express your creativity. Styling refers to applying fills, strokes, gradients, and effects to frames, lines, and text. If you’re bored with plain black text on a white background, InDesign lets you change the text and background colors to almost anything you can imagine.
Most other programs let you style objects and text with fills, strokes, and gradients. InDesign certainly does also.
However, InDesign has broken new ground in offering sophisticated effects such as transparency, drop shadows, and glows. These are the effects that art directors and designers could only dream about creating with other page-layout programs.
With InDesign, they can make those dreams a reality.
Applying Fills ...
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