You’re making changes to a brochure layout that folds in half horizontally before folding vertically a couple of times. To assure that everything reads correctly as the brochure is unfolded, some of the panels had to be designed upside down in the layout. This can present some problems. Even InDesign users who will bend over backwards to do their best work, find working on text upside down to be quite challenging. So how can you do it without being thrown for a loop?
Easy. Marquee across all objects in your upside down panel using the Selection tool (V). In the far left side of the Control palette, click on the center Reference Point. This represents the exact center of all your selected objects. In the Rotation section of the Control palette, select the -180° Preset, which will Rotate all the selected objects as a unit around their center. Make your copy changes (without standing on your head), reselect all the objects from the panel, and Rotate them -180° again. The objects should be positioned exactly where they were before you made copy changes.
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.
