在桌面出版(desktop publishing)应用程序Adobe InDesign中，如果您正在处理一个长的或复杂的文档——甚至是一个包含多个设计元素的单页文档——您可能会想要链接您的文本框。由于任何文档中的文本长度都可能发生变化，因此允许这些更改非常重要，这样您就不必完全重新设计文档的布局。
想象一下(Imagine)，您正在布置一篇杂志文章。在本演练中，我们将向您展示如何链接文本框架，以便文本从一个框架无缝流动到下一个框架，即使您在文章的某处插入其他文本也是如此。这些说明适用于Adobe InDesign的所有版本，包括CS5.5、CS6和InDesign CC，它们是 Adobe 的Creative Cloud的一部分。
把你的 InDesign 词汇记下来
文本框架(text frame)是InDesign项目的基本构建块之一。（术语文本框(text frame)和文本框(text box)可以互换使用。QuarkXPress 用户(users)尤其习惯称它们为文本框。）您添加到文档中的任何文本都存在于称为文本框或文本框(text box)的容器中。您可以移动文本框架并调整其大小，还可以更改框架中的列数或文本框架与框架内文本之间的边距间距等内容。
要创建文本框架，请使用文字(Type)工具。（它是一个看起来像 T 的工具。）在页面上单击(Click)并拖动它以创建文本框架。然后使用选择(Selection)工具（黑色箭头）通过选择并拖动框架每个角上的方形手柄来调整您创建的文本框架的大小。
现在，考虑一下文档的布局。您希望文本在文档的不同部分或完全在另一页上从一个文本框架流向另一个文本框架。当您连接两个或多个文本框架时，这称为线程(threading )或链接文本框架(linking text frames)。一组链接或串接的文本框架称为故事(story)。
每个文本框都有一个输入端口(in port)和一个输出端口(out port)。您将使用这些端口链接文本框架。当您选择一个文本框时，您会在框架的每个角看到一个正方形。您可以使用选择(Selection)工具拖动这些手柄来调整框架的大小。您还会在左上角和右下角附近看到稍大的方块。左上角较大的方块是输入端口(in port)。右下角是输出端口(out port)。
如果文本框架的输出端口有一个红色加号，则表示框架不够大，无法显示框架中的所有文本，并且您有一些溢出的文本(overset text)。
如何将新文本框(New Text Frame)添加到线程
现在您已经掌握了行话，请看下面的图片。请注意红色加号图标告诉您框架有溢流文本。让我们将该框架中的溢出文本流到页面底部的新文本框架中。
- 使用选择(Selection)工具（黑色箭头），选择带有溢流文本的文本框的输出端口。(out port)
- 这将加载一个文本图标(text icon)。（这也称为文本光标(text cursor )，因为您的光标看起来像一块文本。）
- 现在单击或拖动空白区域中的文本图标以创建包含偏移文本的新文本框。
如果您在开始链接两个文本框架后改变主意，您始终可以通过按Escape键或选择 InDesign 工具箱中的任何其他工具来取消。不用担心，这样做不会丢失任何文本。
如何将现有框架添加到线程
如果您有一个已填充文本的现有框架，并且您想将其添加到线程中怎么办？在这种情况下，请按照以下步骤操作。
- 使用选择(Selection)工具，选择文本框架。
- 接下来，选择输入端口(in port)（连接到选定帧之前的帧）或输出端口(out port )（连接到选定帧之后的帧）。这将加载一个文本图标。
- 将加载的文本图标(loaded text icon)悬停在要链接到的框架上。您将看到加载的文本图标变为线程图标(thread icon)。
- 现在单击要链接到的框架内，将其连接到第一框架。
现有框架现在是线程故事的一部分。
如何在线程中间添加(Middle)新文本框(New Text Frame)
将新文本框架添加到串接框架序列中间的过程非常相似。
- 使用选择(Selection)工具，选择故事中要插入框架的框架的输出端口。(out port)
- 松开鼠标按钮，您将看到加载的文本图标(loaded text icon)。
- 接下来，要么拖动以创建一个新的文本框架，要么选择一个不同的框架。该框架将插入到包含您的故事的链接框架的线程中。
如何解开文本框架
如果您想断开一个文本框架与其后面的线程中的所有其他文本框架之间的链接，您可以使用这些方法之一。
解开文本框架的简单方法
使用选择(Selection)工具，双击输入端口(in port)或输出端口(out port)。告诉你这很容易！
解开文本框架(Text Frames)的替代方法(Method)
这是解开文本框架的另一种方法。
- 使用选择(Selection)工具，单击已链接到另一个框架 的输入端口(in port )或输出端口。(out port )
- 您将看到已加载的文本图标(loaded text icon)。
- 从那里您可以将加载的文本图标悬停在上一帧或下一帧上。现在您将看到解开图标(unthread icon)。
- 最后，在要从线程中删除的框架内单击。
如何从线程中删除文本框(Text Frame)
假设您有三个串接的文本框，并且您想删除中间框架。
- 使用选择(Selection)工具，选择要删除的帧。（按住Shift可选择多个帧。）
- 按Backspace或Delete。
删除线程中的框架不会删除该框架中包含的文本，因为文本框架只是容器。相反，文本流入线程中的下一帧。如果线程中没有其他框架，那么您将看到溢出图标。
充分利用(Take)InDesign 的功能
如果您是InDesign的新手，请花一些时间了解它的功能。了解母版页等工具将帮助您更快地设计文档并减少错误。你不会后悔的。
How to Link Text Boxes in Adobe InDesign
In the desktop publishing application Adobe InDesign, if you’re working with a long or complex document—or even a single-page document with multiple design elements—chances are you’ll want to link your text boxes. Since the length of the text in any document could be liable to change, it’s important to allow for those changes so you don’t have to completely redesign the document’s layout.
Imagine you’re laying out a magazine article. In this walkthrough, we’ll show you how to link text frames so text flows seamlessly from one frame to the next, even if you insert additional text somewhere in the article. These instructions should work for all versions of Adobe InDesign, including CS5.5, CS6, and InDesign CC, which is part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud.
Get Your InDesign Vocab Down
A text frame is one of the basic building blocks of InDesign projects. (The terms text frame and text box can be used interchangeably. QuarkXPress users especially will be used to calling them text boxes.) Any text you add to your document lives in a container called a text frame or text box. You can move and resize text frames, and you can change things like the number of columns in the frame or the spacing of the margins between the text frame and the text inside the frame.
To create a text frame, use the Type tool. (It’s the tool that looks like a T.) Click and drag it across the page to create the text frame. Then use the Selection tool (the black arrow) to resize the text frame you created by selecting and dragging the square handles on each corner of the frame.
Now, think about the layout of your document. You’ll want the text to flow from one text frame to another either in a different section of the document or on another page entirely. When you connect two or more text frames, that’s called threading or linking text frames. A set of linked or threaded text frames is called a story.
Every text frame has an in port and an out port. You’ll use those ports to link text frames. When you select a text box, you’ll see a square at each corner of the frame. You can drag those handles with the Selection tool to resize the frame. You’ll also see slightly larger squares near the top-left and bottom-right corners. The larger square at the top-left is the in port. The one at the bottom-right is the out port.
If there’s a red plus sign in the out port of a text frame, that means the frame isn’t big enough to display all the text in the frame and you’ve got some overset text.
How to Add a New Text Frame to a Thread
Now that you have the jargon down, take a look at the image below. Note the red plus icon telling you that the frame has overset text. Let’s flow the overset text in that frame into a new text frame at the bottom of the page.
- With the Selection tool (the black arrow), select the out port of the text frame with overset text.
- That will load a text icon. (This is also called a text cursor because your cursor will look like a block of text.)
- Now click or drag the text icon in an empty area to create a new text frame containing the offset text.
If you change your mind after you’ve started to link two text frames, you can always cancel by pressing the Escape key or by selecting any other tool in InDesign’s toolbox. Don’t worry, you won’t lose any text if you do this.
How to Add an Existing Frame to a Thread
What if you have an existing frame filled with text, and you want to add it to a thread? In that case, follow these steps.
- With the Selection tool, select the text frame.
- Next, select the in port (to link to a frame before the selected frame) or out port (to connect to a frame after the selected frame). That will load a text icon.
- Hover the loaded text icon over the frame you want to link to. You’ll see the loaded text icon change to the thread icon.
- Now click inside the frame you want to link to, threading it to the first frame.
The existing frame is now part of the threaded story.
How to Add a New Text Frame to the Middle of a Thread
The process for adding a new text frame to the middle of a sequence of threaded frames is very similar.
- With the Selection tool, select the out port of the frame in the story where you want to insert a frame.
- Release the mouse button, and you’ll see the loaded text icon.
- Next, either drag to create a new text frame or select a different frame. That frame will be inserted into the thread of linked frames containing your story.
How to Unthread Text Frames
If you want to break the link between a text frame and all the other text frames in the thread that comes after it, you can use one of these methods.
Easy Method to Unthread Text Frames
With the Selection tool, double-click in an in port or out port. Told you it was easy!
Alternative Method for Unthreading Text Frames
Here’s another way to unthread text frames.
- With the Selection tool, single-click on an in port or out port that’s already linked to another frame.
- You’ll see the loaded text icon.
- From there you can hover the loaded text icon over the previous or next frame. Now you’ll see the unthread icon.
- Finally, click inside the frame you want to remove from the thread.
How to Delete a Text Frame from a Thread
Let’s say you have three threaded text boxes, and you want to remove the middle frame.
- With the Selection tool, select the frame you want to delete. (Hold down Shift to select multiple frames.)
- Press Backspace or Delete.
Deleting a frame in a thread won’t delete the text that was contained in that frame because text frames are just containers. Instead, the text flows into the next frame in the thread. If there isn’t another frame in the thread, then you’ll see the overset icon.
Take Advantage of InDesign’s Features
If you’re new to InDesign, take some time to learn about its features. Learning about tools like master pages will help you design documents more quickly and with fewer mistakes. You won’t regret it.
