![]() ![]() One of the main problems with either of these techniques is that the frame size may be inconsistent if you don’t start and end dragging in exactly the same place on every page. In other words, use the Gridify feature above to do the first page, and then use this Contact Sheet feature for all the subsequent pages. This time you don’t have to press the arrow keys because (whew!) InDesign remembers how many columns and rows you made the last time you used the Gridify effect. But don’t repeat! Instead use?Ĭontact Sheet: You get the same grid effect by holding down Command-Shift (or Ctrl-Shift) and dragging. Whatever images are left over remain “in” the cursor, so you can jump to the next page (or add pages) and repeat. When you let go of the mouse button, InDesign creates all the frames and places images into them. Gridify: You can start dragging the Place cursor (as though you were making a new frame) and, while the mouse button is held down, press the up arrow on your keyboard to add a new row, or the right arrow to add a new column. Now you can use one of two different keyboard shortcuts to create a grid. Use File > Place to import all the images. Use Gridify or Contact Sheet Keyboard Shortcuts There has to be a faster way, right? Yup. Add new pages as necessary. 300 images, 300 clicks. InDesign loads all the images into the Place cursor. Then, return to your document page, choose File > Place, select all the images in the Place dialog box (click on the first, then Shift-click on the last), and click Open. You could place a bunch of empty graphic frames on a master page, arrange them the way you want, and even use Object > Fitting > Frame Fitting Options (while the frames are selected) to ensure that the images fill the frame when you place them. Most of these require that you put your images into a single folder on disk. Sure! Here are several ways to import all the images into your InDesign document. There has to be an easy way to do this, right? Here’s a video tutorial showing you the unlinking process.I have 300 headshots to put into a program. Before clicking the second text box, you’ll see the cursor change to a broken chain icon, indicating that you are breaking the link.) (Essentially, you’re repeating the original link steps, except the text boxes are already linked together. Then click the second text box to undo the link.Choose the Selection tool, select the first text frame, and click the larger box in the lower right corner.If your layout has changed and you no longer want text frames to be threaded, no problem! It’s easy to break the connection: It just depends on which out port you’ve selected before clicking and dragging to add the new text frame. You can insert text boxes anywhere in a sequence: after the last threaded frame, between threaded frames, etc. Drag anywhere on the page to create a new text box, or click on an existing text box to thread it into the sequence.When you release the mouse button, your cursor will look like it has text lines below it. With the Selection tool enabled, click on any frame’s out port to set the new text box location.To add more text boxes anywhere in a threaded sequence: How to Add More Text Boxes to the Linked Sequence Keep in mind that if your current text is too short, you may not see anything flow into the second text frame until you add more words. Once you’ve linked your text boxes, any overset text from the first text frame will automatically flow into the second text frame. (You’ll know that the boxes are linkable because the cursor will change to a chain icon right before you click.) Then click on the second text box to link them together. Click on the out port of the first text box, and your cursor will transform so that it has text underneath it.There’s also a larger square on the top left, which is called the “in port.” With the frame selected, you’ll see squares on the four corners, as well as a larger square in the bottom right area (called the “out port”). Choose the Selection tool (the black arrow) and click on the first text box.Add text to your first text box by clicking it with the Type tool selected and then typing or pasting your text.Repeat the previous step to create a second frame.the black arrow), and then reposition or resize it to your needs. At any point, you can click on the box with the Selection tool (i.e. Click and drag on the page to create a new text box (or “text frame”).Open your current InDesign project and choose the Type tool (the letter T). ![]()
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