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Auto number: previous and current page numbers in si...

Auto number: previous and current page numbers in single frame

Digitip 027 – Adobe InDesign CS A little while ago one of my customers (a Pica Award winner), presented me with a graphic design in which a facing pages document had no pagenumbering on the left hand page, yet double page numbering on the right hand page (indicating the left-page number and right-page number). The […]

Shapes magic – nested shapes

Shapes magic – nested shapes

Digitip 026 – Adobe InDesign CS (Revision 1.0) 1+1 = 3. The following shape magic tip has been added thanks to creative thinking by Paul from Snap. In searching for a method to create the following effect, AND have the ability to resize the shape without affecting its contents, the nested shapes came up as […]

Printing to Adobe PDF (OSX)

Printing to Adobe PDF (OSX)

Digitip 024 – Adobe Acrobat 6 / Adobe InDesign CS Revision 1.0 This tip has been added by popular request. On installation of Adobe Acrobat, the Adobe PDF printer is added to the list of printers in your printer utility (Applications/Utilities folder). This printer can be used to output files to PDF directly as if […]