12. InDesign Production Tips

InDesign offers wonderful creative tools and splendid typographical controls. Thanks to its integration with other Adobe applications, it’s part of a nearly seamless graphic ecosystem. But like any application, it has some little quirks that can surprise you if you don’t know the workarounds.

Graphics

InDesign accepts a wide variety of graphics formats, but that doesn’t mean that all those formats are equally well behaved. In addition, while InDesign offers some interesting methods of placing graphics, not all of those methods will yield satisfactory results.

Creating Graphics Frames

Both the Rectangle Frame tool () and the plain old Rectangle tool () create shapes that can hold graphics (or text). In fact, any ...

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