resizing text WITHOUT scaling the frame 2

[swimgirl]

Hello all:
I'm a longtime Quark user 15 years) now switching to InDesign, as my
new job uses CS2.

I'm trying to scale text quickly in InDesign, WITHOUT resizing the
frame. One option is the Menu Bar, but that's too slow. I need a
shortcut. In Quark, I simply make a text box and then my type ,
highlight the type and then bump it up or down in 5-pt increments by
pressing CMD, Option, Shift and the > or < keys.

How do I execute this in inDesign, please?

Thanks

 

[apepp]

...increments are controlled in the main preferences under units and increments so the default is 1pt which is:

Increase by Increment = Cmd + Shift + >

Decrease by Incremen = Cmd + Shift + <

...add Option/Alt key to make them Increment of 5pt...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...also you don't need to highlight the word, you can just select the box with the select tool and use the usual shortcut combination...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...images behave differently to quark, as two tools are required to either select the frame (black arrow) or the actual image itself (white arrow)...

...pdf export is also superior to that of quark, keep your type above transparent objects wherever possible or you might end up rasterizing the text which will output fatter...

...manual trapping or auto trapping are also different to how quark behaves...

Andrew

 

[jmgalvin]

If you want to be a little more comfortable, at least for the time being, go to Edit menu/keyboard shortcuts and select the Quark set. (I'm assuming that Adobe left it there in ID editions later than mine)

If you want to use the normal ID shortcuts, you can find the various ones at that same Edit/keyboard shortcuts






Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[swimgirl]

Thank you apepp and jmgalvin!
Interestingly, I had keyboard shortcutse set to Quark, but after I switched back to the DeFault, scaling the type (cmd+option+shift and > or <) worked fine!