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Gone fishing in InDesign CS5
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Last night’s InDesign User Group meeting in Perth was a great success. Michelle one of our members kept track of the number of new features covered during the 2hr InDesign CS5 show-and-tell session: 34 for the evening! Thank You Michelle for keeping track of the total and dotting the number down on your evaluation form!
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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 [...]
Where’s my scratch disk?
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
If you are an old time Photoshop user, you may remember that in past versions of Photoshop we had access to preferences setting that enabled us to select one or more drives as Scratch disk for Photoshop. Photoshop uses this Scratch Disk space as Viritual Memory. Preferably the drive allocated wouldn’t be the same drive [...]
Sort it please… (2)
Sunday, January 17th, 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.
Sort it please… (1)
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Digitip 094 – Adobe InDesign CS4, Sorting with Scripts.
Updated 23-Feb-2010 Added video
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 [...]
Colour my swatches…
Tuesday, January 5th, 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 [...]