Adobe CS5.5 (v.7.5) Windows DVD DK 65103258 User Manual

Learning feature names

Many of the terms

 in InDesign CS5 menus, dialog boxes, and panels 

are identical to and have the same meanings as terms used in QuarkXPress. 

For example, words like page, book, library, kerning, leading, horizontal 

scale, group/ungroup, lock/unlock, and pasteboard have essentially the 

same meaning in both programs. In some cases, the two programs use 

different terms for the same thing. Once you understand the difference in 

terms, you’re likely to find that associated concepts are quite similar. Here 

are some key terms that differ between QuarkXPress and InDesign.

QuarkXPress has picture boxes, text boxes, and boxes 

with no content, while InDesign has graphics frames, text 

frames, and unassigned frames.

In QuarkXPress, you control boxes and lines in the Item 

menu; in InDesign, it’s the Object menu.

You use the Selection tool in InDesign (called the Item 

tool in QuarkXPress) to select objects, move 

frames and their contents, and crop the con-

tents of a graphics frame.

In QuarkXPress, you use the Content tool when you want 

to move a picture within a picture box or modify text 

within a text box. In InDesign, you can enter or format 

text with the Type tool, or click and 

drag the Type tool to create a new text 

frame. To move a graphic within its 

frame, choose the Selection tool, place the cursor over the 

image, and drag the round Content Grabber that appears 

in the center of the graphic. You can also use the Direct 

Selection tool to move a graphic within its frame, as well 

as to reshape the frame by dragging any of its anchor 

points or line segments.

In InDesign, the Control panel (Window > Control) is 

similar to the Measurements palette in QuarkXPress. 

The Control panel is context-sensitive, which means that 

the controls displayed in the panel depend on the type of 

object selected, as well as the selected tool.
When the Type tool is selected, the Control panel displays 

controls for modifying character or paragraph attributes, 

depending on which of two icons is selected at the left 

of the panel. When table cells are selected, the Control 

panel displays table-formatting controls. When an object 

is selected with the Selection tool, the Control panel dis-

plays object-related controls.

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