From the course: InDesign 2022 Essential Training
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Drawing path and frame shapes - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2022 Essential Training
Drawing path and frame shapes
- [Instructor] InDesign has a wide variety of drawing tools, including a fully featured Bezier pen tool, just like Illustrator. Now I wouldn't use InDesign to do a detailed technical illustration but it's perfect for relatively simple shapes and even most logos. Let me show you how it's done. I have my magazine document open from the exercise files folder, and I'm going to hold down Command + Space Bar on the Mac or a Control + Space Bar on Windows and zoom in on the upper right corner here. I'll just do that and then move over a little bit. I just want to focus on this space up here. Let's also open the View menu and I'm going to turn off the Match Pasteboard to Theme Color feature, that makes it easier to work out on the pasteboard. Now over here in the tool panel there are several tools to let you draw shapes. For example, the Rectangle, Ellipse or Polygon tool, and up here, there's the Line tool. The Line tool…
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