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Publisher to InDesign

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 […]

Paragraph Rules Trick

Paragraph Rules Trick

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.

Unicode Values

Unicode Values

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 […]