From the course: Designing with Grids in InDesign
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Grid Calculator Pro - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing with Grids in InDesign
Grid Calculator Pro
- [Instructor] Grid Calculator Pro from Designer's Bookshop is a plug-in that is one stop shop for creating grids in InDesign. It takes the elements of grid creation: the new document dialog box, the create guides dialog box, the baseline grid and grid options, as well as the text that needs to align to the grid and allows you to set up all these options in one place. Once installed, Designer's Bookshop will appear on your menu. To create a document, choose open plug-in. We have a preview of a two-page spread with the document grid turned on. The first thing I'll do is change my unit of measurement to points and pixels. Everything here is going to be based upon the leading value that we choose and since that value is always going to be expressed in points, I want points to be my default unit of measurement. Having said that, I am now going to change my document size, specifying in inches. I do have a list of predefined document sizes as well as screen sizes, but I want to change the…
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