Headings rule…
By Cari Jansen | October 18, 2009
Digitip 092 – inDesign CS4 – Paragraph Rules trick
I’ve used paragraph rules from my early days when working with that other page-layout application back in the late 1980s (yes, I’m THAT old!). I used them to create the horizontal lines in tabular tables before table styles were invented (I was the “annual report girl” in my production days), and I have used paragraph rules for a long time as a way to create ‘reversed out’ text.
Text with shaded backgrounds
So yes, paragraph rules have been around for some time in various layout applications indeed…
The following tip shows you how you can use paragraph rules in InDesign to create a shaded tint behind a title and heading paragraphs. It shows you how you can work with a single paragraph style to apply shading behind single and double line paragraphs.
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Catching up on some blog-post reading
By Cari Jansen | October 18, 2009
Spent the morning reading blogs and watching some youtube videos, and wanted to share a few great ones with you guys ‘n girls.
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Event – Connect09
By Cari Jansen | September 22, 2009
Coming to Sydney for the first time: Connect09 - focusses on marketing consulting and research for the graphic communications industry.
Whether you’re looking at:
- growing your business
- developing new services
- acquiring new clients or increasing customer loyalty
Connect09 provides you with an opportunity to learn from the experts and give you an insight into generating positive and long-lasting outcomes for your organisation.
Event Information & Registration: www.connectaustralia.com.au
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Adobe Systems – Australia, Fundraiser Cancer Council
By Cari Jansen | September 21, 2009
Sadly many people’s lives have been affected by cancer in one way or another. Some of us are survivors, others might have lost loved ones to the disease. Once a year Adobe’s Australian team is involved in a fundraiser event. This year all proceeds will go to the Cancer Council Australia, which in turn aims to actively partake and fund cancer research, prevent and control cancer, and provide information and support to those people affected by cancer.
The Adobe “Daffy Dills”-team is trying to raise at least A$20,000 for the Cancer Council Australia this year and organising:
- an Adobe Master Class (minimum $100 donation required) on 30 September in Sydney: Learn from the best in the industry! @ Adobe Offices in Sydney.
More info: www.daffydills.com/BookingRetrieve.aspx?ID=47437
You’re already an expert but would want to contribute?
- Signup for the Sydney Relay for Life,. Adobe’s organised 8-teams.
More info: www.daffydills.com/Relay
And if you happen to be somewhere else in the country, then your donations could be either towards a Raffle (and you can win some Adobe software!) or Just a Donation.
- More info: www.daffydills.com/Raffle
- More info: www.daffydills.com/donate
On behalf of the Adobe team and the Cancer Council: Thank You for your support.
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Server Update
By Cari Jansen | September 15, 2009
This week my domain host is transferring domains to a new server. Last time they did this my site was down for 3 days… so I’m warning everyone in advance this time 
Fingers crossed they get it right this time around
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Publishing for Accessibility – Perth IDUG
By Cari Jansen | September 11, 2009
On Wednesday, 30 September 2009, Perth IDUG celebrates its first anniversary and is hosting a meeting with the theme Publishing for Accessibility with InDesign.
Info & Registration:
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/938/
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AutoFit plug-in for InDesign CS4 released
By Cari Jansen | August 16, 2009
Typefi announced on Friday that the very cool AutoFit plug-in, a FREE plug-in for InDesign has been released for InDesign CS4. With this plug-in you can turn text frames into soft-bottom / soft-top frames that automatically grow as more text is inserted. Additionally an added tool in InDesigns toolbar allows the setting of relationships between frames, lines etc. So that when one object grows, the others follow
See the following tips for some AutoFit tutorials:
Web-reference: AutoFit plug-in (2009, Typefi Systems)
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The Quick Refine Soft-Edge Mask Tip
By Cari Jansen | July 21, 2009
Digitip 091 – Photoshop CS4 – Refining your Mask…
Modified: 13 September 2009 – Added “Note”.
Super quick tip. A practical example. I’ve been writing Technical Documentation the past weeks, and am processing an awful lot of screenshots. Sometimes they are kind of big and I really only want to focus on one part, but would love to see a fading edge and I crop the images so they don’t take up too much room. Photoshop CS4’s Mask panel helps be produce the desired effect.
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Introducing GREP Styles (4)
By Cari Jansen | July 9, 2009
Digitip 090 – InDesign CS4 – GREPpin’ ahead or GREPpin’ behind
The following tip is the 4th tip in a series of tips on GREP that I’m working on. It’s one of my personal favourites. Probably because I’ve worked with so many people in my carreer who set those Ads you find in your letter box twice a week. The local supermarket product advertising material is what I’m talking about.
Because of the amount of GREP styles involved in creating this Paragraph Style, I won’t add screenshots for each step, but instead provide you with step-by-steps on how to get to the end result.
Let’s start working.
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Introducing GREP Styles (3)
By Cari Jansen | July 6, 2009
This is the third in a series of tutorials I’ll be writing up about GREP styles. The previous GREP Tutorial is about applying a different style to figures.
In this tutorial we look at how we can convert text typed in Capital Letters to Small Caps.
Let’s get started.
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