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This video acts as
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an explainer
for some of the margin options
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that we have when specifying
advanced groups inside Invent.
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So these are the options I'm referring to.
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But each of the fields that we have
within our group,
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we have the specification of the size
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of the left and the right margin
in a few different ways.
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And the three options that we have for
that are self
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value and auto.
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Now, for the purposes of our example,
we're going to be focusing
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on two of these.
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And I'll use my little diagram here
to explain it.
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So we're going to be looking at field ones
right.
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Margin which has been replicated inside
Invent here.
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So we've got field
one and its right margin.
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And we're going to be looking at field
two left
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margin which is this one down here.
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What we can see is that if we got field
one and field two next to each other,
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those margins will be interacting
in a lot of cases,
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the right and the left margin
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values that we've specified here are what
we actually physically see inside.
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Invent.
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However, the value that is displayed
at the bottom of the little diagram here
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will be the total gap
between field one and field two.
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That's actually utilized
when the product is moved into Mega edit.
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So let's start off
by explaining the self option.
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Now essentially what this is doing
is it's not changing anything from what
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you have specified in your InDesign file.
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So for example, in our InDesign file here,
if I just expand
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this section, we've got our field one
and our field two.
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And the gap that we have here
is ten millimeters.
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Now as far as the self
option is concerned,
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that is always going to be
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a ten millimeter gap regardless
of how you move one of those fields.
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That gap will be maintained
at ten millimeters.
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How that's actually
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displayed inside
Invent when you're specifying
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this is so you have self selected on
both of those margins
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is then showing me in each of these
the total gap that is available.
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So our total gap of ten millimeters.
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You see the values aren't changeable
because it is just taking it
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from InDesign.
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Now it is displaying it twice,
which suggests the total gap
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is going to be 20mm.
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That's not the case when self
is being considered the total gap.
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When you move that over to Mega edit.
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As we can see in this little diagram here
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is going to still be ten millimeters.
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So that's considering the the gap
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from that particular margin
to the next thing it hits.
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So the other field for example.
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Now the reason
I'm explaining that one in such detail
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is that it's slightly different
when we move over to value.
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So I'll go over to value
for both of those margins.
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And I'll put a value of ten in there.
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Now if a value it actually combines
the margin values
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that you've specified
for both of those field margins.
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And that calculates a total distance.
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So I've got a right margin
value of ten millimeters
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a left margin value of ten millimeters.
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If you are using value that means that
the total gap when you change it
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over to Mega Edit will be 20mm,
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and that 20mm will be maintained.
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Just to round off
and clarify that functionality,
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if I change one of these to zero
millimeters and left the other one as ten
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is still combining those two margins.
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So again, the total gap would be
ten millimeters when moved to Mega edit.
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Finally, let's
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have a look at the auto option.
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Now this is a little bit different.
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This is often used in conjunction
with self and value options,
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which are specified on other margins.
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When you're looking at auto, it's
considering the space that we have left
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and available
to us in the entire boundary.
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So let's say we've specified
ten millimeters to the to the leftmost
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boundary.
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That might give us ten millimeters
of available space remaining.
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And then the weighting is allowing us
to choose how that available
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space is being distributed.
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So a couple of simple examples.
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Let's say our available space
that the auto option
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has available to
control is ten millimeters.
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If we specify the weighting
as one on both of those margins,
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that means that ten millimeters
will get distributed as five millimeters
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to one margin
and five millimeters to another margin.
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Let's make that a bit more complex.
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So let's say I change
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the one of the weightings there
to two and left the other one as one.
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That means the weighting of two
will get a higher proportion
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of that available space.
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So if we still say that we have
an available gap of ten millimeters,
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then we have the weighting
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two for the left margin and waiting
one for the right margin.
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It means that are weighting two
margin will have a higher proportion
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of that available space.
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Now here we're just looking
between two specific fields.
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But if you start having multiple fields
so field three and field four
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you can see how this would start
to become more considered. So
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you'd have different weightings to control
the gap between the different fields.
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So one final example we've
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got here just to really drive
this point home is
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when considering the gaps
to the boundary as well.
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So we've just got two fields
within our group.
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And we've looked at what happens if we've
got weightings between those two fields.
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We've got two margins
that we're considering in that one.
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And tire gap.
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But we've also got to look at
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to the left of field one, which is running
up against the boundary of the group
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and to the right of field two,
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which is also running up
against the boundary of the group.
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So the weighting here is something
slightly different to consider.
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So in our example let's consider
that our total available gap,
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and that's not including
the size of the fields is 30mm.
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So that's the space
that we have to play with.
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And what we're trying to achieve
is the same gap
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of ten millimeters
to the left of field one.
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The middle of the two fields
and to the right of field two.
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Now, in order to achieve
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this, we actually need to have different
weightings for the
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what I'm calling the interior margins
and the exterior margins.
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And the main justification for this
is that when we're looking
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at the exterior margins,
we've only considering one margin,
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whereas we're more looking at the interior
margins.
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We're considering two margins
between the two fields.
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So that means our total gap of 30mm.
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We want ten millimeters
between well available for each gap.
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That means our exterior
margins need a weighting of two,
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and our interior need a weighting of one,
because it's going to count that twice
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for that one gap.
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Okay.
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So hopefully that's an explainer
for how these different options work.
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Look out for another tutorial
with the ID number IV_029
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which is actually going to look
at a few examples of this in practice.
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And it's going to utilize these
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default alignment and spacing
distribution options that we provide you.
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And we'll take a look
at what this actually does to the fields.
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to give a bit
more context around what we've shown here.
