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InDesign CS5 known issues

Friday, May 7th, 2010

want to know if an issue you are seeing in InDesign CS5 is known?
Check out InDesign CS5 known issues on http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/840/cpsid_84016.html

Contributor on InDesign Secrets

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Anyone who loves InDesign in the world, will know of InDesign Secrets, a project started out of love for InDesign by Gurus David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion. Both are super InDesign evangalists. So I’m super happy to announce that as of today I will be a contributing author on InDesign Secrets. You can now read [...]

Vertical Type from Illustrator to InDesign

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

In my previous post I provided a solution for setting type vertically in InDesign. Illustrator in contrast to InDesign actually has a Vertical Type tool, and the close integration between the two applications means we can opt to set our type in Illustrator instead and bring it into InDesign as a graphic.

GREP it vertically in InDesign

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

“How do I set vertical type in InDesign?” was a question that landed in my email box today. In all honesty, setting vertical type in InDesign does require the opening of ‘the box of tricks’. I’m writing this tip in two parts. The first part (found below) will show you a pretty quick and dirty [...]

Bridging that gap in InDesign CS5

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

How cool would it be if you can change the layout of a grid of images, and immediately see the result? It would definitely make designing a job much easier… As designers we want to see the changes we are making dynamically… InDesign CS5 bridges another gap designers have been encountering… with its new Gap [...]

Celebrating Adobe Creative Suite 5

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

If you’ve ever seen one of those bouncy balls that just don’t stop bouncing… that’s me… today April 13, 2010… The official launch day for Creative Suite 5 in the Asia Pacific region.
This new release is truly amazing…  it reduces design boundaries, helps you work faster and will most certainly be a critical facter in [...]

Upset about overset text in InDesign?

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

You’ve worked hard on an InDesign layout, and are about to send a PDF to the editor for review, and this Warning dialog appears, telling you there is overset text on page 1.  Whether there are 1, 2, 3 or more overset text frames on the page in question doesn’t matter to this warning dialog.

So [...]

Moving Adobe software…

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

It’s something we all do… moving our Adobe software licenses around from one computer to another, and if you’re lucky enough the reason for the move would be the arrival of a faster, shinier, new computer. This post will hopefully provide you with some tips and tricks on “what to do” when you want to [...]

A little mad with excitement…

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

As some of you might have noticed over the past days, I’ve been doing some house-cleaning in a virtual sense over this wonderful Easter break.  This hasn’t been without a reason. Easter for me this year marks the start of something new and fresh.
The creative, print and publishing industries are bubbling with excitement. A whirlwind [...]

April 13, CS5 Launch Asia Pacific region.

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

13-days, 10hrs to go… till the CS5 launch in Asia Pacific. Be sure to attend the Asia Pacific event on April 13 and be amongst the first to see a new features overview. 2pm Sydney time. Register now to attend.
Web-Link: http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ap/

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