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    • November 29, 2019 at 8:12 am #1199982
      Betsy Nilsen
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      Does anyone have a template of a diagonal grid for text in InDesign? Many thanks!

    • November 29, 2019 at 1:25 pm #14323493
      Luiz roberto Lucio correa
      Member

      Hi.

      You can use direct selection tool /tools (a) – to make a previous diagonal frames.

      this requires advance planning

      leave the frames at the desired size and slope, create master pages and insert the texts.
      Preset frames can replace diagonal grids

    • November 29, 2019 at 1:27 pm #14323492
      Luiz roberto Lucio correa
      Member

      Images… the same way

    • November 30, 2019 at 8:19 am #14323487
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I’m not sure what you mean by “diagonal grid.” Do you have examples you can share?

    • November 30, 2019 at 4:23 pm #14323484
      Betsy Nilsen
      Participant

      For example, a poster or flyer that has text aligned on an angle – diagonally up/down the page rather than horizontal/vertical. You can’t drag out diagonal guides in InDesign so you might not rotate your text boxes perfectly. In that sense, it would be nice to have even a document grid that shows diagonal boxes? I had an example to attach, but can’t find a way to add an image to this post.

      Not sure if this link will show the Jazz poster or not: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/781585710313684432/?lp=true

    • December 1, 2019 at 8:38 am #14323482
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Ah! Interesting. I’ve never seen a template for something like that. One idea is to create the page normally, and then select everything and rotate it to the angle you want.

    • December 2, 2019 at 5:33 pm #14323657
      Betsy Nilsen
      Participant

      Actually – that’s a great idea and should work well. We will be giving that a try in my classroom. Thanks.

    • December 2, 2019 at 7:38 pm #14323654
      Dieter Stockert
      Member

      One thing that Calamus had years ago, were not only horizontal or vertical guidelines, but also guidelines that could be diagonal or circles: https://www.calamus.net/modules/gli.php

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