ADOBE INDESIGN CS3

Toolbox Toolbox overview Some tools in the toolbox are for selecting, editing, and creating page elements. Other tools are for choosing type, shapes, lines, and gradients. You can change the overall layout of the toolbox to fit your preferred window and panel layout.

Display the toolbox

Display tool options Double-click a tool in the toolbox. This procedure works only for some tools, such as the Eyedropper, Pencil, and Polygon tools. Display and select hidden tools 1. In the toolbox, position the pointer over a tool that has hidden tools and hold down the mouse button. 2. When the hidden tools appear, select a tool.

Gallery of selection tools

Gallery of drawing and type tools

Tools

Gallery of transformation tools

Gallery of modification and navigation tools

Turn pages
INDESIGN makes it easy to jump from page to page in a document. For example, just as most web browsers provide

Document window overview

Each page or spread in your document has its own pasteboard and guides, View, choose View > Screen Mode > Normal.

A. Spread (black lines) B. Page C. Margin guides D. Column guides E. Bleed are F. Slug are

Rulers and measurement units

You can change measurement units for the onscreen rulers and for use in panels and dialog boxes; you can also change these settings at any time and temporarily override the current measurement units as you enter a value.

Adjust the zero point

When you move the zero point, it moves to the same relative location in all spreads. For example, if you move the zero point to the top left corner of the second page of a page spread, it will appear in that position on the second page of all other spreads in the document.