Create named grid formats, Named grid options, Apply a named grid to a frame – Adobe InDesign CC 2015 User Manual
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When a frame grid with grid formatting is selected, the current grid format name is highlighted in the Named Grids
panel.
Create named grid formats
Like styles, named grid formats let you save a collection of frame grid settings and apply those settings to other frame
grids.
1
To define a new grid format in accordance with the existing frame grid format, select the frame grid with the
selection tool.
2
Choose Window > Type & Tables > Named Grids.
3
Choose New Named Grid from the Named Grids panel menu.
4
Specify options in the Edit Grid Format dialog box, and click OK.
If the named grid format you want to use is already saved in another InDesign document, you can import that grid
format into the current document.
When a new frame grid format is created based on an existing frame grid, changes to format attribute options also are
applied to the selected frame grid. If you do not want to modify the selected frame grid format, deselect the frame grid
before showing the Edit Grid Format dialog box.
Named Grid options
Named Grid options appear when you choose Window > Type & Tables > Named Grids.
Grid Name
Enter the name of the grid format.
Font
Select the font family and font style, and set the default font for the text to be placed in the grid.
Size
Specify individual grid sizes.
Vertical and Horizontal
Specify the grid scale for full-width Asian characters in %.
Char Aki
Specify the spacing between grid cells in the frame grid. This value will be the grid cell size.
Line Aki
Enter a value to specify the grid line spacing. The value used here is the distance between the bottom (or left)
edge of the character embox for the first line to the top (or right) edge of the character embox for the next line.
Line Align
Select an option to specify line alignment for the frame grid. For example, if Align Left/Top is selected, the
beginning of each line for a vertical type frame grid will be aligned with the top edge of the frame grid. (See
Grid Align
Select an option to specify whether to align the text to the embox, ICF box, or roman baseline. See
.
Char Align
Select an option to specify the method of aligning small characters to larger characters in a line. (See
.)
Apply a named grid to a frame
You can apply a custom named grid or the Layout Grid to a frame grid. If you apply the Layout Grid, the same settings
defined in the Layout Grid dialog box are used in the frame grid.
1
Select the frame grid using the Selection tool. You can also use the Type tool to click on the frame and position the
text insertion point or select text.
2
Click on the name of the format to be applied in the Named Grids panel or Control panel.