Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 46)

40 USING INDESIGN
Workspace
Last updated 11/16/2011
For a video tutorial about using ConnectNow, see Using ConnectNow to share your screen (7:12) . (This
demonstration is in Dreamweaver.)
Setting preferences
About preferences and defaults
Preferences include settings such as panel positions, measurement options, and display options for graphics and
typography. Preference settings specify how InDesign documents and objects behave initially.
Set general preferences
This section covers preference settings in the General tab of the Preferences dialog box. For information on other
preferences, search for the appropriate setting.
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > General (Mac OS), and then choose
the type of preferences you want to specify.
2 In the Page Numbering section, choose a page numbering method from the View menu. (See “ Display absolute or
section numbering in the Pages panel ” on page 92.)
3 In the Font Downloading and Embedding section, specify a threshold to trigger font subsetting based on the
number of glyphs a font contains. This setting affects font downloading options in the Print and Export dialog
boxes.
4 In the When Scaling section, you can determine how scaled objects are reflected in panels and how the content of
scaled frames behaves.
• Select Apply To Content if you want the point size to change when a text frame is scaled. (See “ Scale type ” on
page 258.) If this option is selected when a graphics frame is scaled, the percentage size of the image changes, but
the frame reverts its percentage to 100%. (See “
Scale objects ” on page 419.)
• Select Adjust Scaling Percentage to display the original point size with the new point size in parentheses when you
scale text. If this option is selected when you scale graphics frames, the percentage size of both the frame and image
changes.
5 Click Reset All Warning Dialogs to display all warnings, even the ones you’ve already checked not to display. (As
warnings appear, you can select a check box to prevent the warning from appearing again.)
Set defaults
If you change settings when no documents are open, your changes set the defaults for new documents. If a document
is open when you change settings, the changes affect only that document.
Similarly, if you change settings when no objects are selected, your changes set the defaults for new objects.
Change default settings for new documents
1 Close all documents.
2 Change any menu items or panel or dialog box settings.