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Introduction
In this episode, we'll master flowing long text through multiple frames using threading, understanding the overset indicator, and viewing the flow with Show Text Threads. Let's get started. Hello, welcome back to the complete Adobe InDesign series from Cerdas Inovasi Digital. Long articles rarely fit in one text frame. InDesign connects multiple text frames so that text flows from one frame to the next frame, even to other pages. Open the article file.
Step 1: In port, out port, and overset
Select the text frame on page 1. The small box in the top left is the Inport and the one in the bottom right is the Outport. The red outport with a plus sign indicates overset text. There is still text that doesn't fit and is hidden.
Step 2: Flowing into a new frame
Click the red Outport with the Selection Tool. The cursor changes to a text cursor with a plus sign. Threads create a new frame in the right column. Hidden text flows directly into the new text frame. The second frame is still overset.
Step 3: Flowing to the next page
Click the Outport, then click inside the prepared empty frame on page 2. Text continues to the next page, and the red plus sign disappears.
Step 4: Show Text Threads
Select View, Extras, Show Text Threads, or Press Alt Ctrl Y. The blue line connects the Outport of each text frame to the import frame next, making the text flow order clearly visible.
Step 5: Resizing the frame
Resize the first text frame by dragging its bottom handle upward. Text that doesn't fit automatically flows into the second and third text frames. This is the advantage of trading. Text always adjusts itself without needing to be manually cut. To disconnect the link, double-click the last imported text frame.
Step 6: Breaking the chain
The text that was previously in this frame has returned as overset text in the previous frame. Click the Outport and then click the frame again to reconnect it.
Done!
Done. We have now understood import, outport, and overset, flowing text to a new frame and to another page, displaying Show Text Threads, and breaking the frame chain. In the next episode, we will use autoflow to automatically add pages. Need a layout design for a magazine, book, brochure, product catalog, company profile, or annual report? Cerdas Inovasi Digital provides layout and print design services, as well as opening In-Design courses from beginner to advanced. Want to master the entire series? 104 episodes from the interface to magazine and book projects? All episodes, complete with PDF step-by-step guides, exercise files, and project files, are available for premium tutorial subscribers. Subscribe starting at Rp69.000 per month, save 28% with the 12-month package, or pay once Rp999.000 for lifetime access. Want just one class? Buy a single class with lifetime access. Subscribe now at the premium page cerdasinovasidigital.com Contact us via WhatsApp, or visit cerdasinovasidigital.com Thank you for watching, see you in the next episode.
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