Creating Effects with Paste Into in InDesign
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This article appeared in Issue 2 of InDesign Magazine.Like most basic layout ingredients, the Paste command is an essential workhorse, but it’s not particularly appetizing on its own. After all, Paste usually just places the contents of the clipboard in the center of your document window. However, InDesign offers some variations on the Paste command-Paste in Place and Paste Into—that yield a veritable feast of exciting visual possibilities.
The Paste in Place command adds spice to Paste’s functionality in that it remembers the location of an object that’s copied (or cut) into the Clipboard, and pastes it in the exact same position, relative to the object’s location on the spread. The nice thing about Paste in Place is that it lets you paste the Clipboard contents on a different layer, on a different page in the same document, or on a page in a different document, while maintaining the position of the copied item. But it’s the Paste Into command that can be the most enticing for the visual gourmand.
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