Adobe InDesign CC 2015 - Manual (Page 72)

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Workspace and workflow
Last updated 6/6/2015
Set general preferences
This section covers preference settings in the General tab of the Preferences dialog box. For information on other
preferences, search for the appropriate setting.
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > General (Mac OS), and then choose
the type of preferences you want to specify.
2 In the Page Numbering section, choose a page numbering method from the View menu. (See Display absolute or
section numbering in the Pages panel .)
3 In the Font Downloading and Embedding section, specify a threshold to trigger font subsetting based on the
number of glyphs a font contains. This setting affects font downloading options in the Print and Export dialog
boxes.
4 In the When Scaling section, you can determine how scaled objects are reflected in panels and how the content of
scaled frames behaves.
• Select Apply To Content if you want the point size to change when a text frame is scaled. (See Scale type .) If this
option is selected when a graphics frame is scaled, the percentage size of the image changes, but the frame reverts
its percentage to 100%. (See
Scale objects .)
• Select Adjust Scaling Percentage to display the original point size with the new point size in parentheses when
you scale text. If this option is selected when you scale graphics frames, the percentage size of both the frame and
image changes.
5 Click Reset All Warning Dialogs to display all warnings, even the ones you’ve already checked not to display. (As
warnings appear, you can select a check box to prevent the warning from appearing again.)
Set defaults
If you change settings when no documents are open, your changes set the defaults for new documents. If a document
is open when you change settings, the changes affect only that document.
Similarly, if you change settings when no objects are selected, your changes set the defaults for new objects.
Change default settings for new documents
1 Close all documents.
2 Change any menu items or panel or dialog box settings.
If you use the same page size and language for most of your documents, you can change these defaults with no document
open. For example, to change the default page size, close all documents, choose File > Document Setup, and select a
desired page size. To set a default dictionary, close all documents, choose Edit > Preferences > Dictionary (Windows) or
InDesign > Preferences > Dictionary (Mac OS), and select an option from the Language menu.
Specify default settings for new objects in a document
1 With document open, choose Edit >Deselect All.
2 Change any menu items or panel or dialog box settings.
Restore all preferences and default settings
When InDesign is behaving erratically, deleting preferences (also referred to as “trashing preferences” or “removing
preferences”) often solves the problem.