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InDesign question
Posted by typerror in
8 Jan 2011 — 4:50am
8 Jan 2011 — 4:50am
Is there a way in IND to condense or expand type? I need to condense a tiny bit of text about 3%. Is this possible?
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8 Jan 2011 — 5:11am
Yes, it's possible in the Character pane. It's the icon with the cap T and the arrows beneath.
I tend to rely on a combination of condensing and negative tracking so it's not so obvious.
8 Jan 2011 — 5:12am
You can just set the horizontal scaling to 97% in the character panel, or, if copy fitting is your goal, you can allow glyph scaling in your justification options.
8 Jan 2011 — 3:01pm
Worked wonderfully. I am very grateful.
Am slowly working my way out of the Quark mindset, and some things are just hard to find :-)
8 Jan 2011 — 5:25pm
Can also be done as a part of a paragraph style.