Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 44)

38 USING INDESIGN
Workspace
Last updated 11/16/2011
• To close all windows for all open documents, press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+W (Windows) or Shift+Command+Option+W
(Mac
OS).
Use anti-aliasing for smoothing edges
Anti-aliasing smooths the jagged edges of type and bitmap images by softening the color transition between edge pixels
and background pixels. Since only the edge pixels change, no detail is lost.
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Display Performance (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Display Performance
(Mac OS).
2 From the Adjust View Settings menu, choose the view setting for which you want to turn on anti-aliasing.
You can enable or disable anti-aliasing for each of the view settings. For example, you can enable anti-aliasing for High
Quality view and disable it for Fast view.
3 Select Enable Anti-aliasing.
Greek type
When display capabilities are insufficient to show text at a small size, InDesign displays the text as a dimmed bar. This
behavior is called greeking type. Any type at or below the specified type size is replaced on-screen with non-letterforms
that act as placeholders.
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Display Performance (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Display Performance
(Mac OS).
2 From the Adjust View Settings menu, choose the view setting for which you want to change the Greek Type setting.
You can specify different Greek Type values for each of the view settings.
3 For Greek Type Below, type a value, and then click OK.
To control whether to greek text and images when you scroll a document, open the Interface section of the Preferences
dialog box, drag the Hand Tool slider to the desired level of performance versus quality, and then click
OK.
Calculate values in panels and dialog boxes
You can perform simple math in any numerical edit box. For example, if you want to move a selected object 3 units to
the right using the current measurement units, you don’t have to work out the new horizontal position—simply type
+3 after the current value in the Transform panel.
Panels use the measurement system selected in the Preferences dialog box; however, you can specify values in another
measurement instead.
1 In a text box that accepts numerical values, do one of the following:
• To replace the entire current value with a mathematical expression, select the entire current value.
• To use the current value as part of a mathematical expression, click before or after the current value.
2 Type a simple mathematical expression using a single mathematical operator, such as + (plus), - (minus),
* (multiplication), / (division), or % (percent).
For example, 0p0+3 or 5mm + 4.
3 Press Enter or Return to apply the calculation.