Real World Adobe InDesign CS4- P6: The book uses Robert Slimbach’s Minion Pro, an Adobe OpenType face, which was particularly useful when moving files across platforms. Code samples are set in Lucas de Groot’s TheSansMonoCondensed. A few other fonts were used for example characters. | 138 REAL WORLD ADOBE INDESIGN CS4 FIGURE 2-53 Finding and Changing Object Formatting In this example we want to search for the objects with a gray stroke and change the stroke to black. We also want to reduce the stroke weight. Please imagine that there are hundreds of these on dozens of pages. Press Command-F Ctrl-F to display the Find Change panel. Click the Object tab then click the Specify Attribute to Find button. Use the Find Object Format Options dialog box to set up the attributes you want to find. Click the OK button when you re done then back in the Find Change panel click the Specify Attributes to Change button. Use the Change Object Format Options dialog box to set up the replacement attributes then press OK to return to the Find Changepanel. The Find Changepanel displays the formatting attributes you selected. Click the Change All button. formatting matches the attributes you selected. A Good Foundation Being methodical every now and then can save a lot of trouble later. Setting up master pages defining layers creating layout grids amd ruler guides are not the most glamorous parts of InDesign but they re a good place to spend a little organizational energy. Far from cramping your creative style paying attention to basic layout options at the very beginning of the production process if possible sets the stage on which you produce and direct the play of your publications. 151 08 04 2009 05 54 23 . Text is the stream of characters that inhabit your publications. Text is not about what those characters look like that s type the topic of the next chapter it s about the characters themselves and the containers that hold them. All text in an InDesign document exists in one or more stories. A story consists of at least one text container the container is usually a text frame but can sometimes be a path text object. A story can be as small as a single unlinked text frame or as large as a series of hundreds of linked text .
