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InDesign CS3 - Exam Prep Guide
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Was talking to a colleague in the US this morning and she mentioned that the Exam Prepraration Guide for InDesign CS3 has (finally) been released.
If you’re not yet an Adobe Certified Expert and are interested in becoming a member of a growing group of Adobe Certified Experts, you can start reviewing this guide, study and sit […]
Using Scripts in InDesign, CornerEffects
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Digitip 067 - Adobe InDesign CS3
The following tip will take you through Script installation, running scripts, assigning a keyboard shortcut to a script and reviews the sample script “CornerEffects.jsx”.
Automatic Frame Resizing with AutoFit
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Digitip 066 - Adobe InDesign CS3 / Typefi AutoFit
The following tip gives an another example of how the Free Typefi’s Autofit plug-in - downloadable from www.typefi.com can be used with InDesign. In this tip you’ll learn how text is run into a Header-Text Frame and a Body Content Text-Frame that are threaded to eachother. As the […]
Scaling Effects
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Digitip 062 - Adobe InDesign CS3
Last week, the InDesign Talk list had an interesting discussion about scaling effects in InDesign. As far as I can tell from some tests I’ve just run, it is only the Drop Shadow Effect that doesn’t scale. All other effects seem to scale appropriately.
Ins and Outs of Stroke Alignment
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Digitip 061 - Adobe InDesign CS3
For those of us setting Ads in InDesign the introduction of the feature that can set Stroke Alignment on border objects to “Align Stroke to Inside” in InDesign CS was welcomed with open arms. Gone were the days of borders vanishing into the Pasteboard gray…
Publisher to InDesign
Friday, December 7th, 2007
It’s quite exciting to see that more and more Microsoft Publisher users are making the jump across to Adobe InDesign. If you are a Microsoft Publisher user and have lots of old Publisher files and would like to convert to InDesign without having to recreate your files in InDesign, Markzware’s PUB2ID plug-in for InDesign can […]
Adobe Swatch Exchange
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Digitip 060 - Adobe InDesign CS3
The Adobe Swatch Exchange file (.ase), enables sharing of swatches between InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Generally people will use these .ase as means of loading entire colour lists in the various applications. However, it is possible to make colour lists saved as .ase files permanently accessible as colour libraries, without […]
I’m back
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
There’s been a bit of a draught in my posts over the past few months and I know from emails I’ve received you’re all missing my posts. Many different reasons for this basically, most of which come down to simply not having had the physical time to work on my web-site. Not just because of […]
Typefi AutoFit Plug-in for InDesign
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Typefi Systems on Friday announced the release of a Free Plug-in for Adobe InDesign called Typefi AutoFit. The Plug-in is now available for download and works with CS3 and CS2. This snazzy plug-in enables you to set Text Frame Growth behaviour as more text is inserted in Text Frames as well as relationships between Frames, […]
Round Corners and Text Inset
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Digitip 059 - Adobe InDesign CS3/ Typefi AutoFit
At the InDesign Conference, a gentleman in the audience asked “when I set a text inset for Text Frame, and apply different insets for Top, Left, Right and Bottom, I loose this functionality when I apply a Corner Option to the frame, it turns to Inset”.” Is there […]