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A matter of points…

Adobe InDesign Tutorial / Tip

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”. […]

Styles, styles and more styles…

Adobe InDesign News

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, […]

Creating Interactive PDFs from InDesign (6)

Adobe InDesign Tutorial / Tip

A story about Table of Contents and Bookmarks This is the 6th tip in a series of tips on Interactive PDFs. We’ve learnt in previous tips to create buttons, add cool roll over effects, add actions to buttons, create hyperlinks to pages and more. In this tip we’ll look at how we can create a […]