Recertified
By Cari Jansen | June 30, 2009
Passed my recertification exam for InDesign CS4 with the perfect score. Yay!
Left it a little late this time due to work commitments (Recertification deadline for InDesign CS4 is 30 June) 
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Links to InDesign 6.0.3 Updates added
By Cari Jansen | June 28, 2009
Direct download links to recent InDesign 6.0.3 Updates for Mac and Windows, now added to http://carijansen.com/resources/adobe-indesign/
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Previous and Current Page Numbers on Odd Pages.
By Cari Jansen | June 7, 2009
Digitip 087 - Adobe InDesign CS4
26-June-2009 - Comment Cari: “Bob Bringhurst (who’s responsible for Help Documentation for InDesign and InCopy), is acknowledging that the changed behaviour we’re seeing in CS4 is a bug. See his post ‘Page Numbering on a Single Spread Page‘.”
The following tip is the CS4 write-up of a Digitip 027. Based on the comments below that particular tip, I’ve decided to add an CS4 step-by-step instructions, as it seems that possibly the change in terminology, Auto Page Number is now called Current Page Number… causes some confusion. In addition, the tip doesn’t work like it used to in earlier versions of InDesign 
Like the previous tip, this tip looks at creating double page numbering on the right hand page, indicating the left-page number and right-page number in the same text frame on the right hand page. Read more »
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IDUG Perth and Sydney - 2 June
By Cari Jansen | May 31, 2009
Don’t miss out… Perth and Sydney InDesign User Group meetings - 2nd June 2009.
Perth - Making Text Flow: Efficient, cool, clever and downright fun ways to format text in InDesign, presented by dyanmic duo Marianne Young and Cari Jansen.
Sydney - Treasure Hunt: InDesign Tips & Tricks, presented by Mike McHugh , Application Engineer Adobe Systems and host of creativesweettv.com
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Vertical Justification and End of Story Marker
By Cari Jansen | May 28, 2009
Digitip 086 - Adobe InDesign CS4 - Vertical Justification & End of Story Marker
Vertical Justification… according to Webopedia is the “automatic adjustment of vertical space between lines, so that columns and pages have an even top and bottom margin” … In InDesign Vertical Justification really refers to the vertical alignment text has within its text frame.
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A matter of points…
By Cari Jansen | May 14, 2009
I’m analysing some InDesign files for a customer presently, and upon opening one of the files in InDesign the following dialog appeared. “This document’s setting for points/picas per inch differs from the current application setting. To change the document’s points/pica per inch setting, go to the Units & Increments panel in the Preferences dialog box”.
In all honesty it wasn’t a Warning dialog I had ever encountered before.
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InDesign User Group Meetings Australia
By Cari Jansen | May 14, 2009
It is InDesign User Group meetings time again. All Australian User Groups are now open for meeting registration for meetings between 2 and 11 June 2009. So if you live in or around Perth, Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne and are not yet a member of the InDesign User Group or haven’t registered for your local event… now is the time to sign-up.
The following IDUG meetings are currently scheduled:
2 June 2009: Perth - Making Text Flow: Efficient, cool, clever and downright fun ways to format text in InDesign, presented by Marianne Young and Cari Jansen.
2 June 2009: Sydney - Treasure Hunt: InDesign Tips & Tricks, presented by Mike McHugh
10 June 2009: Melbourne - Interactive PDF
11 June 2009: Brisbane - Let’s Style it!, presented by Cheryl Zwart
Membership and attendence of the InDesign User Group meetings/events is FREE.
Not a Member yet? then log-on to www.indesignusergroup.com and become a member and choose which Chapters around the world you’d like to be come a member of. You will automatically receive event notifications.
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Styles, styles and more styles…
By Cari Jansen | May 3, 2009
An excellent book by Michael Murphy. If you want to work ’smarter not harder’ in InDesign, then his new book is a must read.
Michael covers everything, and I mean EVERY-thing to do with Styles in InDesign CS4. From the basics of Paragraph and Character style usage to Object Styles, Stroke Styles, Nested, Next, GREP, and many more styles…
It’s an easy to read and easy to understand book. Written very much in the style of his podcasts. So if you like those, then definitely grab a copy of his book
Web-reference: Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts (Michael Murphy, 2009)
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Sandee’s new blog and podcast
By Cari Jansen | May 3, 2009
In case you’ve not yet seen or heard about this one: Sandee (Vectorbabe), InDesign guru from day ONE… has started a great blog and podcast on all things “print”.
The blog and podcast are a great addition to her recently published book.
“Bleed ? what’s bleeding? Uuuuhhhh why can’t you print my Powerpoint designed ad in your glossy magazine? Just grab the logo of our web-site it should be good to go… What???? Colour can be illegal????”
Web-reference: From Design Into Print - blog/podcast (Sandee Cohen, 2009)
Web-reference: From Design Into Print - the book (Sandee Cohen, 2009)
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Unmerging Table Cells
By Cari Jansen | May 3, 2009
There are number of applications out there that enhance InDesign’s Table Style feature. Be it by adding features to InDesign’s Table Style panel, such as the Typefi Designer plug-ins do that are part of Typefi Publish client-software used to build InDesign templates for automated page-composition, or by adding separate functionality such as Woodwing Smart Styles.
When building so called prototype or “base” tables that form the source for formatting tables in InDesign using these tools, there is generally a rule that states that the prototype table may not contain merged cells. This is to do with the fact that no information regarding cell formatting of the ‘merged cell’ is recorded as part of the prototype and can result in new tables once formatted with these styles displaying unexpected results, if they are build with merged cells.
To build our table designs however, we generally do work with merged cells, for instance for header rows, so we can visualise end-results better.
A quick way to unmerge ALL cells in a table, regardless where they appear, is to select the entire table and then choose Table > Unmerge Cells command.
Doing this before defining your prototype, will also display any formatting issues that might require cleaning up, prior to defining the styles.
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