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How to Adjust Content in Presentation Mode to Avoid the Notch Area

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
September 17, 2024
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When using presentation mode, is there a way to not have your content run up into the notch area? If your content is tall enough, it will run all the way to the top of the screen and have a big ol' notch cut out of it, when viewing in Presentation mode. Any way to tell InDesign, "hey, just push everything down below that bloddy notch, please." ?

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Jamie23803340u2bq

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/102125

It doesn't seem to be widespread knowledge, but if you close the app, find it in applications, press command + i to get info up and then you can click scale to fit below in-built camera. I use that in combination with an app called Top Notch to completely hide the notch.

leo.r

Community Expert

It doesn't seem to be widespread knowledge, but if you close the app, find it in applications, press command + i to get info up and then you can click scale to fit below in-built camera.
By @Jamie23803340u2bq

Yeah, I didn't know about this! Interestingly, if you check this option for InDesign then use the Presentation mode, the notch then disappears in all apps.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @bobtem:

Not an option today, unfortunately.

I do see how software could resolve this by pushing the fullscreen mode down the quarter inch or so necessary to move past the notch on our MacBooks. You could file a feature request: https://indesign.uservoice.com/

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Just to be contrary, I would not be surprised if the screen-rendering code doesn't allow for such adjustments, at least not easily. A lot of apps, especially of ID's slightly creaky vintage, take screen size as a basic constant and don't look back when rendering screen elements. That is, I suspect, at the heart of a lot of the screen-sizing and UI scaling problems, and would make a seemingly simple X-Y redefinition a tough feature.

Notches on mobile devices are bad enough. Not sure who ever thought they were a good idea on a laptop. 😛

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

I don't see any way to solve this without a system/OS level setting or utility to redefine the screen area.

This is a hardware problem, not a software one. Laptops shouldn't have crap intruding into their already limited display area. IMVHO.

John D Herzog

Inspiring

Notch area? Are you viewing it on a phone? Put a black bar at the top of your file that matches the size of the notch?

bobtemAuthor

Inspiring

Macbook Air, with the notch.

I don't want to have to adjust file just for viewing it in Presenation mode. I just want Apple or Adobe to use their much touted "AI" to adust it for me.

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