Indesign 5.5 dimensioning and arrowheads

[Drisconsult]

After 20 years with Ventura I now have to migrate to Indesign (5.5). I need to dimension lines with arrowheads. It seems an impossible task with Indesign - or is it. With Ventura it was a delight, with InDesign its a bloody nightmare.

 

[spamjim]

I might disagree with you a tad on the similarity of InDesign with Ventura. I could change the Body Text tag any time at any place and it would become the default font.

Disagree all you want but that does not make what we're telling you to be untrue. You do the exact same thing in InDesign by double-clicking on the paragraph style in the Paragraph Styles panel (F11). If you have failed to assign any other paragraph style as default, you would tweak the default "[Basic Paragraph]" style.

InDesign is not as difficult as you are making it. It does the very same thing that Ventura does... and much more if you will allow yourself an open mind.

InDesign can drag out a marquee selection in the exact same way that you do in Ventura. Use the black arrow tool.

 

[apepp]

...yes, black arrow selection tool or the white arrow selection tool...for marquee selection...both arrows behave slightly differently from each other.

Andrew
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[Drisconsult]

Hello Andrew

Well after a couple of weeks and about 50 pages, I have admit that InDesign is quite brilliant, especially the lining up of objects and frames. However, there is one feature that might be there but I can't find it and that is the Ventura tag file feature. Does InDesign have such a feature?

 

[apepp]

...what is Ventura tag file feature?

...if it is XML tagging, then yes, that is there.

Andrew
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[Drisconsult]

Hello Apepp
Let us suppose you want a paragraph with a 24pt MetaPlusNormal font; with line spacing 0f 20pt and a dropped cap. In Ventura you click on the Tag File dialog box enter the attributes and then save it. Any time you want to insert the tag you enable the tag file, click on the text and you have whatever paragraph you have highlighted changed to those attributes. On an average 400 page book I would have about 50 tag files. Let's assume you want a bullet paragraph with a different font to the normal bodytext, by creating a tag file you wimply highlight the tag then click on the paragraph that you want bulleted and bingo it's dome. Is it possible to send screenshots?
Regards
Terence

 

[apepp]

...sounds like paragraph styles to me:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-indesign-cs5/gs07-creating-and-applying-paragraph-styles/

Andrew
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