Adobe InDesign CS2 Tip – Type Glitch?
April 27, 2006 – 1:47 pm | by J. Rodriguez
Here is a very interesting tip from Layers Magazine on Adobe Indesign. I found it quite helpfull being a Quark User. I often find myself using Indesign just to have the ability and know how on using both.
Layers magazine Tip of the Day
Adobe InDesign CS2 Tip – Type Glitch?
You decide to change the color of a headline, so you select the type and click on a Swatch from the Swatches palette. You deselect the type and realize that you’ve added a Stroke to your lettering instead of a Fill. Hmm, how did that happen? Why did the Type tool Default to Stroke? It just doesn’t make sense considering it’s so rare that you need to change or add a Stroke to type. Is this an InDesign bug? Nope! You actually caused the problem without realizing it. No matter what tool you’re using, if you activate the Stroke icon in one of your palettes, it stays activated until you activate Fill. Switching to your Type tool does not automatically switch to Fill in your palettes. So what seems like a totally random Stroke activation is not random at all. It’s just the way InDesign is designed to work.
