Script page links fixed
By Cari Jansen | January 2, 2008
I’ve just uploaded the scripts again. An oversight on my part - I forgot to upload the scripts to the server -. Which means they’ve not been available. Thank you Eric for dropping me an email to let me know.
I hope all’s working well now.
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Scaling Effects
By Cari Jansen | January 1, 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.
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Ins and Outs of Stroke Alignment
By Cari Jansen | December 31, 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…
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Site Revision
By Cari Jansen | December 30, 2007
It’s almost becoming an annual event… a site revision.
This one is a major upgrade. Now working with Wordpress and totally database driven content. Rather than building everything from scratch I’ve done what most Wordpressers do… used an existing Wordpress theme and made my own amendments to it.
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Publisher to InDesign
By Cari Jansen | December 7, 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 come to your rescue.
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Adobe Swatch Exchange
By Cari Jansen | December 2, 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 the need to load the entire content of the library in your InDesign swatches panel. Let me take you through the “how-to”-steps….
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I’m back
By Cari Jansen | December 2, 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 a busy work schedule, but also as I’ve been busy organizing everything for the finalization of a house I’ve been building and the resulting move to a different location.
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Typefi AutoFit Plug-in for InDesign
By Cari Jansen | September 3, 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, Lines etc. These relationships in turn cause all related objects to grow accordingly. It’s a cool little plug-in definitely worth installing with your version of InDesign.
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Round Corners and Text Inset
By Cari Jansen | September 1, 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 anyway around this?” The answer is “Yes, but you’d need to apply a little trick AND use the AutoFit plug-in for InDesign that Typefi Systems has just released”.
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Paragraph Rules Trick
By Cari Jansen | September 1, 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.
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