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088 Three ways to cheat text outside of its frame

088 Three ways to cheat text outside of its frame - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

088 Three ways to cheat text outside of its frame

You're going to love this tip. Actually, there's three tips in this video. Three ways that you can violate the laws of nature, and get your text to extend outside of a text frame. Number one, let's zoom into this text. How can we get this drop cap open quote to go outside of the frame? You have to add another character in front of the first character in the line. This will work for any first character in a paragraph. In this case, it happens to be a drop cap, and in this case it happens to be a quote, but it could be any first character. It doesn't have to be a quote drop cap, it could be any drop cap. Click in front of the drop cap and add a space. What happens is your space becomes dropped. That's what I have invisible showing, so you can see this. And so you have to come up to the drop cap controls and change it to two characters. And now that you have two characters starting a line, you click in between them, as my cursor is right now, and you kern it in. I'm going to use the…

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