Click on the drop arrow button of the Effect option of this dialog box.Īnd choose the Stair Step option. Here a dialog box of ‘Type on Path’ will be open. Choose ‘Options’ from the new scroll-down list of ‘Type on a Path option of scroll down list of Type menu. Now for making this text vertical, go to the Type menu of the menu bar and click on it. I will increase its font size and also change the font style then change its color also. I will type InDesign as a text for this line. With the Path type tool click on the drawn line and once you click a blinking cursor for written a text will come on the line. You can use the Shift + T buttons of the keyboard as its shortcut key. Here in this arrow we have Typed on a Path tool so select it. Now go to the tool panel and click on the drop arrow button of the Type tool. If we hold the shift key then the drawn line will be vertically straight.
For this purpose, we have to take the Line tool from the tool panel or press \ button of the keyboard as its shortcut key. Now let me tell you how you can type a text vertically. So this is the first way in which we can rotate text in the vertical direction and set them with other text for making a good typography look. Now you can see both are in vertical position. I will do the same with the other same text. If we hold the shift button of the keyboard and then rotate it then it will rotate on the difference of 45 degrees.
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I mainly would do this because I'd rather have just a first initial and a regular-width font than a full name and a condensed font when doing nametags, but that's just me.And now with the selection tool, we can rotate it like this. Or, another thing I've done if almost all the names were too long for legible nametags (this would come up if I only had to set up, say, 10 nametags for people at my work having to go give a presentation somewhere else when bidding on a contract and eight of them had really long names) is change all the first names to first initials. Of course this might not work for you if the nametags are set up "firstname lastname" and you absolutely need to sort by last name, or if the names have titles in them like "Dr." and whatnot.īut having said that, when I have to set up a bunch of nametags at work (never had to do thousands, but I do occasionally have to do several hundred), I would consider 75% using a normal font and 25% using a condensed font too large a percentage of inconsistent-looking nametags, and would adjust the normal nametag style so that i got that percentage down low enough so that I wouldn't mind going in and manually tweaking the overset ones. Run the indesign script that sorts by paragraph so that the nametags will be in alphabetical order Import the text into your indesign nametag fileĪpply your condensed style to the selection Save the text in a format that indesign can import Import the text into something that can sort the names by line length (excel can do a sort like this indirectly if you use the LEN function) I don't know if you can set a rule like you're asking, but if I had to have the nametags be a specific size and font to the point where a 25% of 'em didn't work and had to tweak those last 25% using a different stylesheet, what I might do is :
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