Comments on: InDesign Eye Candy, part 1: In Gravity’s Shadow

By: ruebi

ruebi — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:19:14 +0000

Cool trick. It works also with a Text Variable.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:52:56 +0000

I thought in order to cleanse your palette you had to swirl quark around in your mouth and then spit it out.

By: Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:25:19 +0000

Fritz-

You guessed the next topic: shiny!

In the meantime, cleanse your palette by working only in the Story Editor.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:46:51 +0000

I just tried it with cross references and it works great.

Mike, I loved the trick. I can’t wait to see what other shiny eye candy you are going to deliver to us next. After all of this candy I hope that my eyeball doesn’t get a cavity.

By: Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:05:09 +0000

Debbie-

Sounds like you’re using CS3. This tip works in CS2 and CS4. There’s no way to make it work in CS3 that I know of.

Daniel-

I thought Martin was kidding about the cross-reference, but if you wanted to try it, you’d go to the Hyperlinks panel and select the original text and make it a Hyperlink destination (text anchor). Then delete the shadow text and replace it with a cross-reference to the text anchor. When you changed the original text, you’d need to update the hyperlink to make the shadow change. Perhaps a similar, simpler idea would be to just do a Find/Change. That would change the text and its shadow.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:46:51 +0000

I seem to only get gravity effect on the left hand side of my sentance – it leaves the right hand side upright – what am I doing wrong?!!

By: Daniel Vojtisek

Daniel Vojtisek — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:50:08 +0000

Really cool. Nevertheless I somehow could not manage to get the mirrored text cross-referenced, as Martin mentions in his post. Can somebody help? I´ve never used the cross-reference feature before.
Thanks

By: Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:21:46 +0000

Thanks Martin

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:54:00 +0000

Very nice trick!
And if you make the mirrored text a cross reference of the normal text, you even can update both at the same time!