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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 [...]
Perth InDesign User Group now on Twitter
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Yep, Perth IDUG is joining the social media network. You can follow us on @IDUG_Perth and also follow me personally @carijansen
Hope to see you all online! Things are buzzing right now!
Cari
Reminder – InDesign User Group Perth
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
There’s still time to register for the InDesign User Group meeting (Tuesday 16 February) in Perth.
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/1350/
The InDesign User Group is a networking and learning platform for anyone using Adobe InDesign, be it as a teacher, student, graphic designer, marketing & pr professional, publisher, editor, hobbyist etc.
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 [...]