Out-of-the-Box Thinking with Type

CATEGORIES: Design Tip of the Day, InDesign | Jeff Witchel | July 12, 2006

If you use the Type tool to draw a Text Frame, the Frame will be a rectangle. And other than the Type on a Path tool, there are no other Type tools. This is very much different than QuarkXPress™ which has six additional Text Box creation tools. So is this an area that InDesign falls short of Quark™?

Not at all! Because there are two ways in InDesign, to turn any other object into a Type Frame (as long as that object doesn’t contain an image). You can select the object and go to the Object menu> Content and choose Text. Or you can click on the object (whether it is selected or not) with your Type tool and the object will turn into a Text Frame. So if you want a curvy organic shape drawn with the Pen tool to contain text, go right ahead. Just click and type with your Type tool.

Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider.

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