I’m designing a catalog that will have the client’s logo centered in a dark blue Frame at the bottom of quite a few pages. Is there a way to Place the logo so that it will automatically fit centered within the Frame as large as possible while maintaining its proportion with at least a ¼” inset from the edge? That’s a mouthful of specifications, but InDesign CS3 has a fitting answer.
Select the dark blue Frame and go to Object > Fitting > Fitting Options. When the dialog opens, in the Crop Amount section, type -.25 in for Top and click the Link button to set up an equal “inset” (instead of a crop) all the way around the Frame. For Alignment, press the Center Reference Point so that the logo is placed from its center out. In the Fitting on Empty Frame section, choose Fit Content Proportionately and click OK. To use this “style” of Fitting again and again, select the Frame and save it as part of an Object Style under the Option menu of the Object Styles panel (Window > Object Styles).
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider.
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Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
