Pick up a font style
Ivan | Tue, 2005-04-19 09:25Once you carefully crafted a particular font style in Illustrator with a certain color, size, font, stroke, effect, etc. you wouldn't want to go through all these settings once again if you need to use the same style for another text element in your design.
Thankfully the color picker tool is not just for picking colors. If you select a text and than the color picker tool, the color picker icon will have a small letter T next to it indicating its alternative operation. Now, you can click the desired styled text element to pick up the style and to instantly apply it to the previously unstyled text element.
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now, that came really helpful for me...
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Nice one, looks like I'd be using it some day. More "Illy" tips and tricks 'pwease.'
adobe rocks! ;-)
in indesign you can select text, then with the eyedropper you can pick up text-specs from another paragraph. after you do this, your cursor changes and you can use it to apply the same text style to other paragraphs etc., just click and drag! i find it very usefull when i work in relatively small documents without styles (okay, okay, styles would probably speed things up a bit ;-)
You can also use it to pick up character and paragraph styles if you are using them. In InDesign this tool comes in really handy when working with text. When you pick semething up your cursor changes as mentioned above, but you can also hold down ALT to change the cursor temporarily back to the default eyedropper, pick up a new style/textspec or color, click and drag again and speed up your workflow.
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now that's a great tip... we're getting sooo off-topic here, but that one's really useful dori! i was getting a bit tired of having to switch back to the text-tool, select text, back to the eyedropper etc. thank you! :-D
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Talking about textboxes and formatting in InDesign, I shold mention that Shift+drag on scaling a textbox normally scales the box but not resizing the font. On the other hand SHIFT+CMD+drag resizes the font within the textbox, increasing or decreasing font size. This also works with resizing images in boxed containers.
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Some more info about the eyedropper in Adobe InDesign.
This is so handy in InDesign in particular, because of paragraph formatting capabilities.
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This is all good.
Does Photoshop have this feature? I typically have to click in a text field and it "stores" the setting for the next text box I create.....but it'd be nice to have a formatting eyedropper.
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...but your way is a great tip!