That question was posed to me last week by a former Advanced Adobe FrameMaker 9/10 student. So why would a paragraph without an indent value specified look like this in the ruler? They’ve shifted in to reflect the indents. 25” values in the Paragraph Designer, but also the new positions of the First/Left indent triangles and the Right indent triangle in the ruler. They point directly down to the edges of the paragraph.Ī paragraph with First, Left and Right indents defined might look like this second image. Note the zero values in Paragraph Designer on the right, but also the position of the First/Left indent triangles and the Right indent triangle in the ruler. A paragraph without any indents looks like the image below. When you decide that you would like to add indents to a paragraph (i.e., a block quote), you simply select that paragraph and enter your First, Left and/or Right indent values into the first column of the Basic property sheet in the Paragraph Designer.Īs a visual learner, I’ve become accustomed to keeping an eye on the rulers while I’m working. Indents in Adobe FrameMaker are pretty straightforward. Posted on: February 7th, 2012 Author: barb.binder Category: Adobe FrameMaker If the text is very long and complicated and you need to use the Indent to Here feature very often, there is always the option to do the text in InDesign and the drawings in Illustrator, and paste one on the another as PDF.Home / Adobe FrameMaker / Adobe FrameMaker: Understanding Paragraph Indents Adobe FrameMaker: Understanding Paragraph Indents Copy-pasting of course handles the copying of the paragraph style and the bullet at the same time. Also, you cannot make the bullet itself as a paragraph style setting as you can in InDesign, so you'll always have to type the bullet itself in first.
Unfortunately, in Illustrator you cannot create keyboard shortcuts for paragraph styles either, in contrast to InDesign, so when creating bulleted lists, you'll have to apply the style by selecting it with a mouse from the style list. an en dash might be wider than a bullet is). Added bonus (or a drawback, depending on your needs) is that the indentation doesn't change if you use bullet points of different width (e.g. And as in InDesign, you can also create a Paragraph style out of it to keep all the text frame indentations perfectly same. You can just select the whole text frame or even multiple text frames to adjust all bullets simultaneously. Just adjust the Left indent as desired for the indented part of the text and add as much negative First line indent to adjust the bullet back in line with the text frame's left side. If you only need indentation for bullet points, however, it doesn't require this kind of action. If you want to be pixel-perfect, you can copy the text before the indentation and paste it as a new Point Type text object (the one not having a text frame) and read its width, which you can now add as the tab stop position.
The easiest way to do it manually in Illustrator is most probably using the Tabs window and setting tabs manually to be as close as possible to the character. Unfortunately, this is not possible in Illustrator, as it is in InDesign as well featured as a Special Character ( Type > Insert Special Character > Other > Indent to Here – the effect is that the indent automatically adjusts if the text before it changes), not as a paragraph attribute, and Illustrator doesn't feature such special paragraph-adjusting characters.