Which is better? There is no “better”! It’s just a matter of which suits your needs more. Now here are two versions of the same layout, one with layout adjustment turned off and then again with it turned on:
Here’s a very simple example with text and graphics: If there were text inside the frames, it would not get scaled, but images do get scaled along with the frames. You can see that the frames move and scale. For example, here I’ve added frames on all four sides of the frames: They just get moved around differently.īut what if you do want the shapes to change size as well as move? You can do that by adding guides on two or more sides of the frame. What if you want to keep the green frame near the top of the page and lock the magenta frame down near the bottom? In that case, add guides along the top and bottom of the (individual, ungrouped) frames:īy the way, if the frames appear at slightly different sizes in the images above, it’s because I’ve scaled them… they remain the same size in the actual document. Of course, if you group the objects first, they’ll stay together. By placing the guide on the left edges, layout adjustment figured you wanted to move the objects around in all kinds of ways. As the page width got smaller, the guide moved with the page, and the objects moved with it.īut, um, why did the space between the objects get larger? I don’t have any good explanation for this besides perhaps InDesign was trying to be helpful. This is because guides are moved proportionally with the rest of the page. However, if I add a single vertical guide along the left edges of the objects before I change to portrait orientation, I get a much better result: (In CS3 and earlier, you need to select the object first and snap the guide on one of the side or corner handles.) Then, when the guide moves, the object will move with it.įor example, in the image below, you can see I’ve added two frames to a landscape page (left) and then changed the orientation to portrait (right):Įven though Layout Adjustment is on, the objects are pushed off the page - InDesign can’t “manage” them because they weren’t touching (or very near) a guide. You can drag out page guides from your rulers and snap them to the edges of your objects. To make layout adjustment work for you, you need to position your objects next to guides (such as the margin guides), or position your guides next to objects! Layout Adjustment just sort of flails around with your objects unless they’re abutting guides. But here I want to explore the most important aspect of Layout Adjustment: Guides. Layout Adjustment has come up in previous blog posts, such as this one by Cari Jansen, where she talks about using it with CS5’s Page Tool to change the size of ads. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.
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