A few questions if someone can help

[samjoy]

I have just really struggled with some areas of my multi page PDF design here I some problems I encountered.

1.When I free transform a frame it will not snap to any guides although snap to guides is on.

2.I had real trouble aligning my margin top and bottom to my baseline grid, shouldn't they fall in line with the baselines? Is there an easy way to do this?

3.If I want make a black background for some text in a column how do i do this so the text has a border around it inside the black border so it looks neat, at the moment the text is on the edge of its black background?

4.I am very confused about black with indesign, I had a black background to a page then made a square over a photo that I wanted the same black so it looks like a cut hole in the picture to put some text in, but when I select the square and sample the background with the dropper my preview of the PDF shows the square darker than the background, my black in the pallet is C0 M0 Y0 K100? and if I fill with this both shapes its the same miss match. Why is my black displaying in the pdf like this?


5. I want to edit the bounding box of an image so the corner of the image has a square cut out so i added extra anchor points but when I move them i have nothing to tell me when the anchor points are aligned horizontal or vertical so the square is exact.

Many thanks if you can take the time to help me with these.
Sam

 

[apepp]

1.When I free transform a frame it will not snap to any guides although snap to guides is on.

...this normal free transform tool behaviour...

2.I had real trouble aligning my margin top and bottom to my baseline grid, shouldn't they fall in line with the baselines? Is there an easy way to do this?

...you have to measure with a drawn box height then "edit > margins and columns" and input the values. For complex grids, grid calculator helps greatly for the ultimate perfectionists among us...

https://www.designersbookshop.com/grid-calculator-basic-edition.html

1.When I free transform a frame it will not snap to any guides although snap to guides is on.

...this normal free transform tool behaviour...

3.If I want make a black background for some text in a column how do i do this so the text has a border around it inside the black border so it looks neat, at the moment the text is on the edge of its black background?

...press "control/command + B" and change the inset spacing, same as "object > text frame options"

4.I am very confused about black with indesign, I had a black background to a page then made a square over a photo that I wanted the same black so it looks like a cut hole in the picture to put some text in, but when I select the square and sample the background with the dropper my preview of the PDF shows the square darker than the background, my black in the pallet is C0 M0 Y0 K100? and if I fill with this both shapes its the same miss match. Why is my black displaying in the pdf like this?

...the default black of indesign overprints objects underneath (global setting in the preferences), you can override this by creating your own black, or setting the object to 99% on the default indesign black, ensure you you also don't have overprint turned on in the attributes palette of the selected object...

5. I want to edit the bounding box of an image so the corner of the image has a square cut out so i added extra anchor points but when I move them i have nothing to tell me when the anchor points are aligned horizontal or vertical so the square is exact.

...draw a square frame instead, above the picture exactly in place, select both frames and use the "pathfnder" palette, choose the "subtract" command...




andrew

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[samjoy]

Many Thanks andrew, I have learnt most of the things from internet and books but this would take me ages to find these on google etc, many thanks, Sam

 

[samjoy]

Just one more thing, I saw tutorial on grid calculator, which perfectly demonstrates the principal you mentioned of using to size margins....nice,but does having document grid set mean you do away with baseline grid? If so then why baseline grid? Thanks boxes Sam

 

[apepp]

...the document grid method demonstrates f-line height for picture alignment, the baseline grid is still needed (set in the preferences and applied in the paragraph style for type alignment (leading))...

...this article makes use of grid in illustrator, with good explanation throughout:

http://font.is/?p=1251

andrew

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[samjoy]

Thanks for this info on grids I have been reading up ,but......

If you change font of your body text does this put the f height out? and what is the purpose of the document grid in all this, sorry to have so many questions but Im nearly clear on all this now, thanks again. Sam