Subtitles of the Movie

In this chapter, we're going to look at viewing and navigating through documents. There are many different ways to do it. Some you'll never use, some you'll use all the time, some you'll use occasionally, but if you know as many as possible, you're going to be able to find out the best way to do it for yourself. First we'll start off with some basics. If you look in the lower left hand corner here, you can see the size that we're viewing this at the moment, 66, just over 66 percent. Let's go to 100 percent here. Now, I have this zoomed in a window here because I don't want to keep bumping into this menu down at the bottom, which I have hidden for the purposes of this tutorial. Now, 100 percent here, what this really means is an inch on the screen equals an inch in your document. It's not really accurate, but it's a starting point that you'll be able to take a look at. You can zoom in and out here just by choosing any of these, down to 25 percent. Notice that we go right out there and we can see a number of different pages because we've gone so small. Then we can go up to 800 percent there and then we're really zooming in on the text, but where's it zooming in on? Let me just go back to 100 percent here and do something a little bit different. If I go in and choose 150 percent, you can see that it's zooming around this point. That is the center of the page. So it's always zooming in on the center of the page if you do this. Let's go back to 50 percent here. What happens if I wanted to look at this graphic here? If I hit zoom in now, it's going to zoom in on this because I've got it selected. So if I now go to, let's say 400 percent, it zooms in on this object. It's still selected, so if I go in to, say, 4,000 percent, it zooms right in on it. You'll notice we're right at the pixel level and you don't really do much editing at the pixel level in InDesign, so 400É4,000 percent is a little bit overkill. Let me go back to 100 percent here. If I wanted to zoom in on something like this, again it's selected, choose 150 and that's a good size to zoom in and edit text. Let me zoom out again to 75 percent and we'll take a look at some other options and we'll do that from the menu. If you go to the view menu here, down in this section of it, we've got a number of options here. Zoom in, zoom out. So I'll zoom in, zoom out. Again, if I have something selected, like this cockroach here, I can view, zoom in and because I had it selected there, it zoomed in on it. It zooms in again, but what sort of percentage is it actually zooming in every time? Well, it's this figure down here. These are the set increments that we're zooming in on, so if I go to view, zoom in again, you can see it's 200 percent from 150. If I go zoom in again there, the next option is 300 percent, so view, zoom in, it goes to that. So those are the increments that zoom in and zoom out are going to do from this menu. A couple of other options we have here, from the view menu, are fit in window. So it fits that page in the window. This is one that I use a lot, so I remember the shortcut key for it, view, fit spread in window. That's if you've got a document in spreads, like this is, where page 2 and page 3 are together. It fits both pages in the window. Nice option there. View actual size and again that's 100 percent. That's what we talked about a little earlier. View entire pasteboard. Well, what's the pasteboard? That's this area over on the left and right. We can't see it here because we're in Preview Mode, but over here you can see right to the edges of the pasteboard. We can't go beyond that. So let's fit our spread in window again. View, fit spread in window and we'll take one look at another option here and that's to use our contact-sensitive menu. So that's the right hand mouse button or ctrl-click on a Mac if you're using a 1-button mouse. Just click here and there we have the zoom option, the exact same options, zoom in, zoom out, actual size, entire pasteboard, fit selected in window, like that. Fits it in. Doesn't really zoom in quite as much as I would like for zoom select, so I don't think it's a good option. If you don't have anything selected and click here, you'll notice that these items immediately become available if you zoom out, there they are, entire pasteboard, but if I have something selected, like this butterfly and right click on it, I have to go to a sub menu. That's because there are so many other options that I can do with something selected that they've had to put this in submenus. So fit selected in window and there it zooms in on that. So that's how to zoom in and out from the menus. One thing I did forget to mention is that you can just type in a figure here. So that's 92. If I wanted to go to 87, hit enter and it goes to the exact figure. So you don't have to go to those pre-set increments. In the next movie, we'll take a look at the zoom tool, which is located down here in the toolbar and some of the options for it.