InDesign
Tools overview
- Type tools
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Create
and format type in standard or customized blocks or paths. (See About text frames.)
- Drawing and painting tools
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Draw and style simple and complex objects, including rectangles,
ellipses, polygons, freeform shapes. (See Draw basic lines and shapes, Draw with the Pencil tool, and Drawing with the Pen tool.)
- Selection tools
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Select (activate) objects, points, or lines. (See Select objects.)
- Transform tools
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Reshape, reorient, and resize objects. (See Transform objects.)
- Navigation, zoom, and measuring tools
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Move around in, control the view of, and measure distances
in a document. (See Zoom in and out and Rulers and measurement units.)
- The Scissors tool
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Splits paths and frames. (See Split a path using the Scissors tool.)
- The Button tool
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Creates buttons to serve as triggers for various actions
in interactive documents. (See Create buttons.)
