Adobe InCopy CC 2015 - Manual (Page 117)

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Last updated 6/13/2015
Document setup options for frame grids
When Frame Grid is selected for Text Area in the New Document or Document Setupdialog box, the following options
are available:
Vertical and Horizontal Grid Scaling Specify the grid scaling for full-width Japanese characters in percentage.
Char Aki Specify the spacing between characters. This value is used for the grid mesh spacing.
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.
View frame grids
Frame grids are shown by default.
1 Choose View > Layout View.
2 Choose View > Grids & Guides > Show Frame Grid.
If the frame grid still does not appear, choose File >Document Setup, and make sure that Frame Grid is selected from
theWork Area menu.
Convert text frames and frame grids
In stand-alone documents, you can convert plain text frames into grid frames or frame grids into text frames. When
plain text frames are converted into frame grids, for text that has not had a character style or paragraph style applied in
the story, the frame grid's document defaults are applied. (See
About frame grids in InCopy documents .)
You cannot apply grid format directly to documents that don’t have frame grids. After converting the text area into a
frame grid, you can apply grid format attributes by applying a predetermined grid format to a frame grid using text that
has not been given a paragraph style. (See
Apply grid format to text .)
Note: Since character attributes are not set for text frames, changing a frame grid with character attributes into a plain text
frame may cause reformatting. For example, when a frame grid with Character Aki set to -1H is converted into a plain text
frame, character spacing becomes 0H, and the characters will be slightly spread out. Since the frame grid settings are
preserved, converting back to a frame grid will display character spacing at the original value of -1H.
Convert a text frame into a frame grid
1 Choose File > Document Setup.
The Document Setup option is dimmed if you’re working with content that is linked to InDesign. For linked content,
change the settings in InDesign.
2 From the Text Area menu, choose Frame Grid.
3 Specify the frame grid attributes. (See Document setup options for frame grids .)
4 Click OK.
To reformat the text according to grid attributes, select the text, and choose Edit > Apply Grid Format.
Convert a frame grid to a plain text frame
1 Choose File > Document Setup.
The Document Setup option is dimmed if you’re working with content that is linked to InDesign. For linked content,
change the settings in InDesign.
2 From the Text Area menu, choose Text Frame.