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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 [...]
Paragraph Rules Trick
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Digitip 057 - Adobe InDesign CS3
During the “McHugh, Cohen, Jansen”- final session at the 2007 InDesign InDesign CS3 Conference in Melbourne, I demoed the following paragraph rule trick as method to place a special tint effect behind a heading.. The tip uses both a custom made gradient and stroke style for its colouring.
InDesign CS3 Conference
Friday, August 31st, 2007
First of all, thank you to everyone who attended the GREP and XML sessions for InDesign CS3 I presented at the InDesign Conference in Melbourne yesterday and today, also thank you for all the kind compliments.
As promised yesterday I would upload the actual InDesign document I used for the GREP session. The web-link below will [...]
Unicode Values
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Digitip 056 - Adobe InDesign CS3
Unicode values are the unique numerical value assigned to literal characters. In InDesign you’ll see them predominantly used for Find/Changes or Scripting.
How can I find the Unicode Value for a particular character? Other than visiting the official Unicode web-site and accessing the Character charts, how would we find those Unicode [...]
The importance of Save As
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Digitip 055 - Adobe InDesign CS3
This tip really isn’t Adobe InDesign CS3 specific. But is extended to anyone working on complex InDesign documents for hours on end.
After a long day’s work
InDesign’s Info Panel displays document information including file size when no artwork is selected on pages. The following screenshot was taken after about 15 hours [...]
PageMaker to InDesign CS2 conversion
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Believe it or not, I’m actually and Adobe Certified Instructor for PageMaker 7. The last time I taught PageMaker was about a year ago. Yep, there are still PageMaker users out there…
Adobe Sample Scripts overview PDF for download
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Back in October 2005, I submitted an article for InDesign Magazine providing an overview of the TextCleanup Script that ships as part of the Adobe Sample Script files with InDesign CS2 and the Creative Suite bundle that was published in the Oct/Nov’05 edition of the magazine. I’ve always included a section on Scripts in the [...]