Donate a day’s wages for the people of Haiti…
By Cari Jansen | January 19, 2010
Who follows in my footsteps and donates a day’s wages to an organisation helping out the people of Haiti?
I’ve donated today’s wages to Médecins Sans Frontières who are hard at work in Haiti.
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Sort it please… (2)
By Cari Jansen | January 17, 2010
Digitip 095 – Adobe InDesign CS4, Sorting with Scripts.
This is the second part of a two part write-up about sorting paragraph and table text in InDesign and covers the sorting of table data, thanks to a great script developed and provided freely by Peter Kahrel.
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Sort it please… (1)
By Cari Jansen | January 17, 2010
Digitip 094 – Adobe InDesign CS4, Sorting with Scripts.
You’ve spend a few days working on some great layouts for a customer. Lots of bulleted lists and tables, and when you receive the first proof back, many of the lists and tables have a note on them: “can you please sort this in alphabetical order”? I won’t ask you what your first thought is when you read this scenario. But my response to my customer would be: “Not a problem, I’ll have an amended proof for you this afternoon, that will have things sorted as requested”.
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Long Live InDesign!
By Cari Jansen | January 8, 2010
Perth InDesign User Group meeting
16 February 2010. 5:45pm – 8:30pm
The Perth InDesign User Group invites you to become a Member (Free) and attend its Long Live InDesign! meeting on Tuesday, 16 February 2010.
In a belated celebration of InDesign’s 10th birthday, our theme for the evening will be to focus on making Long and Beautiful documents with InDesign.
We will be taking a look at some very cool tips and tricks for working with Longer InDesign documents. Learn how to use InDesign’s Book feature, automatically add new pages to documents, work with more than one Table of Contents in document, pick up some tips and tricks on how to bring in content from Microsoft Word and Excel, and be introduced to InDesign Table Styles.
To finish the evening we’ll be showcasing some great designs “Made with InDesign”.
Event Registration
Although InDesign User Group (www.indesignusergroup.com) membership is absolutely free, you must REGISTER for this event, as seating is limited (max 90), so be sure to pre-register soon!
For registration and more information: http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/1350/
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Colour my swatches…
By Cari Jansen | January 5, 2010
Digitip 093 – Adobe Creative Suite 4. Building a swatch set from an image
Updated: 5-Jan-2010: Added Video Tutorial at end of transcript
During our InDesign Trivia night at the Perth InDesign User Group in December, we had some fun with colours in InDesign.
Here’s one of the scenario’s we used: So you’re working on a layout in InDesign, and although you know you can use the Eyedropper tool to pick up colour from a placed image for use in InDesign, you’ve got the sudden urge to build a series of colour swatches based on the colours found in one of the images used in the layout.
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Happy New Year everyone!
By Cari Jansen | January 1, 2010
bonne année – gelukkig nieuwjaar – felice anno nuovo – happy new year – feliz ano novo – gott nytt år - godt nyttår – ein gutes neues jahr – lokkich neijier
I know it’s been a little quiet on my site the past months. One of my new year resolutions is to make more time for those things in life I enjoy doing the most and a successful outcome of that will without a doubt be more posts and tutorials on my blog! There a stack sitting on the back-burner… so keep an eye out for them the coming weeks 
Wishing you all a great, creative, happy & healthy 2010 together with friends & family.
Cari
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Perth InDesign User Group Meeting tonight.
By Cari Jansen | December 1, 2009
It’s not too late to register for tonights InDesign User Group Meeting in Perth. It will be a fun Members Request & InDesign Trivia evening.
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/989/
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Headings rule…
By Cari Jansen | October 18, 2009
Digitip 092 – inDesign CS4 – Paragraph Rules trick
I’ve used paragraph rules from my early days when working with that other page-layout application back in the late 1980s (yes, I’m THAT old!). I used them to create the horizontal lines in tabular tables before table styles were invented (I was the “annual report girl” in my production days), and I have used paragraph rules for a long time as a way to create ‘reversed out’ text.
Text with shaded backgrounds
So yes, paragraph rules have been around for some time in various layout applications indeed…
The following tip shows you how you can use paragraph rules in InDesign to create a shaded tint behind a title and heading paragraphs. It shows you how you can work with a single paragraph style to apply shading behind single and double line paragraphs.
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Catching up on some blog-post reading
By Cari Jansen | October 18, 2009
Spent the morning reading blogs and watching some youtube videos, and wanted to share a few great ones with you guys ‘n girls.
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Event – Connect09
By Cari Jansen | September 22, 2009
Coming to Sydney for the first time: Connect09 - focusses on marketing consulting and research for the graphic communications industry.
Whether you’re looking at:
- growing your business
- developing new services
- acquiring new clients or increasing customer loyalty
Connect09 provides you with an opportunity to learn from the experts and give you an insight into generating positive and long-lasting outcomes for your organisation.
Event Information & Registration: www.connectaustralia.com.au
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