Questions and Answers
- What is one reason to click Object > Text Frame Options?
- to change the number of columns in a text frame
- to apply a drop shadow to the frame
- to change the corners of a frame from corner to rounded
- to change the fill and stroke of a text frame
- Which panel allows you to add an arrowhead to the end of a line?
- Effects
- Stroke
- Transform
- Pathfinder
- In the image shown, what do you know about the Body Text paragraph style?
- The selected text was not formatted using the style definition.
- The selected text is in overset text outside the boundaries of the current frame.
- The style has been applied to two or more paragraphs.
- The style has been added since the master styles were created.
- You want to ensure that an image on your page is exactly 25% of its original size. How can you determine whether the image is set to the desired size?
- Double-click the image with the Selection tool.
- Select the graphic frame with the Selection tool.
- Click **Window** > **Info**.
- Click **Object** > **Fitting**.
- You have an empty one-page InDesign document. You have used File > Place to select a Word document that contains many pages of text. What will help you place the full story quickly?
- Select **Show Import Options** in the **Place** dialog box.
- Right-click the page with the place cursor.
- Shift-click with the place cursor inside the margin guides.
- In the **Pages** panel, click the **New Pages** button with the place cursor.
- You select a graphic frame that contains a Photoshop image and use the Scale field in the Control panel to enlarge it to 200%. What happens to the effective image resolution?
- The resolution doubles.
- Effective image resolution stays the same until you choose from the View > Display Performance menu.
- Effective image resolution is set in Photoshop, not in InDesign, so it stays the same.
- Correct The resolution is cut in half.
- What is one reason you might want to use the Text Variables feature?
- to create captions underneath images that update automatically
- to include calculations inside a dynamic table
- to adjust text size automatically to fill the frame
- to create running headers that include chapter names
- You want to place 4 of a multipage PDF into an InDesign document. What should you do?
- In the **Place** dialog box, select **Show Import Options**.
- Import the PDF with the **Media** panel instead of **File>Place**
- Open the PDF in Acrobat, select page 4, and drag it into InDesign.
- After placing the PDF, disable the unwanted pages in the Media panel.
- Suppose that master page B is based on master page A, and you are currently editing master B. Which statement is true?
- Objects on master page A are not visible.
- Objects on master page A must always appear behind objects from master page B.
- Objects on master page A cannot be selected unless you override the objects.
- Objects on master page A cannot be selected or changed.
- In the image shown, the text is on a path. You want to move the text farther to the right along the path. How can you accomplish this?
- Drag the blue square D.
- Drag the side handle B
- Drag the slanted line A.
- Drag the center tick mark C.
- When you select a rectangular frame on the page, InDesign displays a yellow square near the frame's upper-right corner. What does this allow you to do?
- Change the corners from square to rounded.
- Anchor the object into another frame.
- Change teh layer or z-order of the frame.
- Link the frame to another frame.
- What action can the Pen tool perform on a selected object?
- The Pen tool cannot affect an object after it has been created.
- You can click a point to convert it to a curve.
- You can drag the Pen tool inside a frame to convert it to a compound shape.
- You can click a point to delete it.
- What is one reason you might want to use the Span Columns feature?
- You have a bullet list of six items that you want to split into two columns in the middle of a text frame.
- You are changing the number of columns on a page and want to ensure the text flows properly.
- You want a line or top shaded borded to span across the top of a multicolumn frame.
- You have a heading that you want to span across two threaded text frames
- Which statement about tables is true?
- Tables are always anchored in a story in a text frame.
- To edit text in a table, you should first click **Table>Convert Table to Text**
- Tables must contain more than one cell.
- Tables cannot be anchored in a story in a text frame
- Which feature would you use to create the effect shown, where the grouped circles blend with each other but not the object behind them?
- Global Light
- the Screen blending mode
- Isolate Blending
- Knockout Group
- In the image shown, what do the colored frame edges indicate?
- which layer each object is on
- which master page each object is on
- which object style is applied to the frame
- that the red frame is locked
- To resize any frame and its contents and maintain the proportions of both, which key or keys must you press while dragging from a corner handle?
- Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac)
- Alt+Shift (Windows) or Option+Shift (Mac)
- Ctrl+Shift (Windows) or Command+Shift (Mac)
- Alt+Spacebar (Windows) or Options+Spacebar (Mac)
- In the image shown, what can you infer about how this document will print?
- The page wil be scaled to fit the paper.
- All document layers will be visible
- Some of the InDesign page will be cropped off.
- The master page P is applied to the document pages.
- After you click a color in the **Gradient** panel to select it, how can you set its color to a swatch in the **Swatches** panel?
- Double-click the swatch.
- Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) the swatch.
- You cannot apply a color swatch to a color stop in the **Gradient** panel.
- Drag the color stop over the color in the **Swatches** panel.