Quick Tips - Adobe Products (all applications)
Quick Zooms
All Adobe products (and even some other companies) use these standard keyboard commands to control the document display.
- Zoom in and out quickly in all Adobe products by simply hitting command+ (Mac) or crtl+ (PC) to zoom in and command- (Mac) or ctrl- (PC) to zoom out.
- Fit your document to the window with command+0 (Mac) or crtl+0 (PC).
- Change temporarily to the Magnifying Glass tools by holding down command+spacebar (Mac) or crtl+spacebar (PC).
Using these simple commands is much quicker than changing tools to change your display image size. Try them, you'll find that you wil use the all the time.
Clarke Backer - Prepress Manager
Three ways to change Units of Measure
- Make the change in the preferences menu Units and Increments
- ctrl-click (Mac) right-click (PC) directly on the ruler
- Type the unit directly into the measurement field in the palette you are working in
Explanation: The document being worked in is set to measure in Picas, but you want to place an object 1/4" away from the trim edge of the page. All you have to do is this, with the object selected, set the orientation to the upper left corner, highlight the X coordinate and type .25 in. This will automatically place the object 1/4" away from the trim edge of the page.
Ken Black - Prepress Technician
Let the Measurements Fields do the Math
All the coordinate fields - X, Y, W, H will allow you to add or subtract within them
Explanation: You have set a series objects starting at (X: 2 in - Y: 5 in) on down to (X: 10 in - Y: 5 in) - say a nice row of images. Now the client/boss/the voices tell you to move each object down 5/8". Rather than doing the math in your head for each object then inputing the coordinates, or worse, trying to drag the object to its new location, you can just select all the objects and without deleting the coordinate, type + .625 into the Y field it should look like this - (Y: 5 in +.625). Hit enter and voila, the objects are now 5/8" further down the page.
Ken Black - Prepress Technician Need more viewing space?
- Turn off your palettes by hitting the TAB key, hit TAB again it all comes back
- Hide the rulers - command-R (Mac) ctrl-R (PC) do it again they come back
Ken Black - Prepress Technician
