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Error ???[Filename].indd? uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently
2007-10-04 18:02:00 Here is the full error: “The document ‘[Filename].indd’ uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system. We strongly advise you not to open the document. Do you want to open anyway?” The problem here is probably that you are opening the file with InDesign 2.0.x and the file was edited in InCopy ... More About: Plug-ins , Plug , Error
Awesome Free Font Of The Week: Disgusting Behavior
2007-10-02 21:20:00 Misprinted Type is the home of this week’s awesome free font and also a good reminder that it’s not the font that makes the design, but good typography. Stay creative with your awesome fonts. Do the unexpected. Keep it readable. Ask your Mom for feedback. Keep it real =) [DOWNLOAD FONT] More About: Behavior , Awesome , Free , Week , Font
Document?s Trasparancy Blend Space Doesn?t Match Destination Color Space
2007-09-29 04:39:00 When exporting a low-res (Smallest File Size) PDF from InDesign, you may get this warning dialog box: The document’s transparency blend space doesn’t match the destination color space specified in the Export Adobe PDF settings. To avoid color appearance changes in the PDF, click Cancel and change either the document’s transparency blend space, or the ... More About: Space , Color , Destination , Match , Document
Awesome Free Font of the Week: Cutty Frutty
2007-09-26 21:17:00 I think this is the closest thing to a Pirate font as is possible. This font looks great faded, with inner glow, over textures, or any combination. Just looking at it makes me thirsty for rum. [DOWNLOAD FONT] addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Findesignhelp.com%2Fawesome- free-font-of-the-week-cutty-frutty%2F'; addthis_title = 'Awesome +Free +Font +of+the+Week %3A+Cutty+F rutty'; addthis_pub = ... More About: Some
CS3 Summit is Coming to Chicago
2007-09-25 18:58:00 The 2007 Creative Suite Conference will be held in Chica go from October 15th-20th. In addition to InDesign; Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver and Flash will all be addressed. This is a huge event and I highly recommend attending to anyone who can make it. If you live in the area and aren’t ... More About: News , Summit
Converting an Image to Grayscale in Indesign
2007-09-24 18:44:00 Reader Robyn writes in to ask: Is it possible to convert an image to greyscale in InDesign? The not-so-simple answer is: sort of… Here are some potential solutions: Just print your document in grayscale. Under the printer options > output, choose Composite Gray . If you need a single image grayscale and not the entire document… Create a new InDesign Document Place just ... More About: Trick , Image , Vert , Indesign
Terminology: ?Short Panel?
2007-09-21 23:05:00 Have you ever wondered what the term “short panel” means when talking about print work? It is probably best described with a brochure. Specifically, a book-fold brochure as opposed to a z-fold brochure. With the book-fold, both of the outside panels fold in. If all three panels were exactly the same size, the panel that ... More About: Panel , Terminology , Short , Term
InDesign CS3 Spell Checker Not Working
2007-09-20 19:42:00 Adobe InDesign CS3 has a built in spell checker that checks your document against a built in dictionary. This is a great feature as it not only allows spell checking of the standard dictionary but lets you to add customized words to said dictionary or to use a legal or medical dictionary. It also supports ... More About: Working , Spell Checker , Indesign , Checker , Spell
Awesome Free Font Of The Week: Marcelle
2007-09-19 19:21:00 Marcelle is not only cool for because of it’s retro grunge script awesomeness, but also because it comes with an entire separate font loaded with cool “swashes” (the big curvy line underneath “Sports” below). [DOWNLOAD FONT] addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Findesignhelp.com%2Fawesome- free-font-of-the-week-marcelle%2F'; addthis_title = 'Awesome +Free +Font +Of+The+Week %3A+Marcell e'; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Some
Please Personalize Your Copy of InDesign to Continue the Setup Process
2007-09-18 19:34:00 The serial number you provided is not valid. Please check your serial number and re-enter it. This error happens on Windows machines after you’ve already installed the program (InDesign CS2 or CS3). It actually has nothing to do with an invalid serial number but rather with your permissions to write to a certain folder. ... More About: Setup , Copy , Process , Sona , Conti
Hebrew text in InDesign CS3
2007-09-17 21:20:00 Unicode fonts are not supported in InDesign. Any language that reads right to left will not work properly in InDesign. If you place it from a text editor that does support Hebrew it will then be reversed and read left to right. For native support of Hebrew you will need InDesign 5 ... More About: Text , Brew , Indesign
Quark Conversion Results in ?Corrupted Boxes? in InDesign Document
2007-09-15 04:04:00 One of the many (many) bugs that can result from converting a layout document from Quark XPress to InDesign are so-called “corrupted boxes”. The effect can be that InDesign treats these boxes as if they weren’t there. Then when you go to print you get the error: “The pages selected to print are all blank…”. Here are ... More About: Results , Bugs , Document , Conversion , Result
InDesign CS3 Book Indexing Bug
2007-09-13 22:46:00 As many people have discovered; InDesign CS3 does not index books properly. It will drop out some listings when created or updated and isn’t always obvious about it. This only seems to affect indexes of books and not documents. While Adobe is aware of the issue there’s not telling when it will ... More About: Book , Bugs , Xing , Indexing , Indesign
Awesome Free Font Of The Week: Agit Prop
2007-09-12 02:01:00 Didn’t you hear? Russian fonts are back in style. Especially if you get all 3D and nasty with them. [DOWNLOAD FONT] addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Findesignhelp.com%2Fawesome- free-font-of-the-week-agit-prop%2F'; addthis_title = 'Awesome +Free +Font +Of+The+Week %3A+Agit+Pr op'; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Prop
Selecting Paper Quality on Any Printer
2007-09-11 18:22:00 Reader Kayla wrote in last week with a question about how to select Paper Quality on her Ricoh printer, as she was having trouble finding that selection. The confusion here is that Paper Quality is not an InDesign specific printer option, meaning that you won’t find it in the InDesign printer options when printing. Paper ... More About: Tutorial , Printer , Sele
Book to Document Script for InDesign CS3
2007-09-10 23:49:00 The beauty of (java) scripts is that you don’t need to be able to write them or even fully understand their inner workings in order to benefit. Just as you don’t need to be a mechanic to drive to the store you also don’t need to be a programmer to run a script. ... More About: Scripts , Book , Script , Document , To Do
Borderless Printing in InDesign CS3
2007-09-07 18:43:00 If you want to print to the edge of the page without any white space then you’re going to want to do borderless printing. The first thing to do is to make sure your printer is capable of borderless printing, many are not. If you’re sure your printer is capable of borderless printing ... More About: Printing , Indesign
Adobe InDesign Freezes When Loading: Initializing the SING Gaiji System (Wi
2007-09-06 16:14:00 If Adobe InDesign CS3 is freezing when you start the program while displaying ‘Initializing the SING Gaiji System ’ then we can help. This error pops up when you have a problem with your Sing plug-in. Most people don’t ever use their Sing plug-in but it sure does keep a lot of people from starting up ... More About: Bugs , Stem
Invalid Value for Parameter When Converting an InDesign File to PDF Using A
2007-09-05 21:51:00 Error: Invalid value for parameter ‘using’ of event ‘exportFile s’. Expected PDFExportPreset, but received “Standard”. This error occurs when you attempt to create a PDF from an InDesign CS3 INDD using acrobat. Technically this is an acrobat error but it only affects users of InDesign. Some work-arounds for this issue include printing to PDF from within ... More About: Meter , Vert , Vali , Indesign
InDesign Font Size in Parentheses?
2007-09-04 21:04:00 When you group objects and then scale them you will then end up with 2 sets of font sizes. One will be your original font size and the one in parentheses is your new font size, after scaling. This can get a bit confusing and, in my opinion, it’s best to do away ... More About: Font , Size , These , Parent , Indesign
Awesome Free Font Of The Week: The King & Queen
2007-09-02 16:23:00 This week’s font could be really cool on wedding invitations* or restaurant menus*. It could really work in unison with a much smaller uppercase sans-serif. It’s just nice to see a grunge take on a script/calligraphy style font. Not that is hasn’t been done before, but this is very well done. You will find that ... More About: The King , Awesome , Free , Week , Queen
InDesign Crashes when Generating an Index
2007-08-30 19:49:00 If InDesign crashes every time you attempt to create an index then follow the solutions below in order to resolve the problem. Check to see if the document you’re attempting to index was ever a Pagemaker file by checking the document history in the component information window. If the document was ever a Pagemaker file then follow ... More About: Index , Crashes , Indesign
View InDesign Document History
2007-08-29 23:01:00 When troubleshooting problems with an InDesign document it can help to know what program created it, what plug-ins were used in it’s creation and it’s history of being saved. Since you may not have created every *.indd file you use you can rely on InDesign Component information to find this out. With a document open hold ... More About: History , View , Document , Tory , Indesign
Sync InDesign CS3 Pantone Color Values with PhotoShop
2007-08-28 21:49:00 In InDesign CS2 and CS3 you can choose to use LAB values for spot colors rather than cmyk values. Setting this as a default will help you to manage color between InDesign and Photoshop and better ensure that spot colors remain consistent. To do this follow the steps below. Open InDesign and make sure ... More About: Color , Values , Sync , Tone
InDesign Freezes at startup: Initializing the SING gaiji system
2007-08-27 19:28:00 The Sing Gaiji system is involved in Asian characters and fonts. It allows for additional glyphs that aren’t primary to a font set. For a better explanation of what the Sing Gaiji system is refer to the article on it at Adobe.com. If InDesign freezes at startup and what is displayed on the screen ... More About: System , Startup , Stem , Indesign
Fixing Broken File Paths in Bulk in Adobe InDesign
2007-08-25 14:36:00 A reader writes in: Our office computers use mapped network drives to access public folders. After a recent server crash, the marketing drive was moved to another computer on the network using the same file structure, but all InDesign files still link to the old location. Is there a way to change the name of ... More About: Adobe , File , Bugs , Broken , Xing
InDesign CS2 Crashes When Exporting to PDF
2007-08-24 18:44:00 One of the biggest problems people have with CS2 is that it’s not fully compatible with the Intel Macs. It’s not really Adobe’s fault as the Intel Macs were released after CS2 and the Intel Macs don’t actually meet the system requirements for CS2. CS2 is actually running through emulation Software called Rosetta and ... More About: Crashes , Indesign
Missing Plug-ins LILO.APLN and CELLSTYLES.RPLN
2007-08-23 17:40:00 Error: The document “document_name.indd” uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system. Do you want to open anyway? This happens when you try opening an InDesign CS3 document in InDesign CS2. The plug-ins referenced with this error are “Lilo .apln” and “CellStyles.rpln”. This error window is followed by a second one: Cannot Open File Cannot open ... More About: Missing , Plug-ins , Plug , Missi
Awesome Free Font Of The Week: Libel Suit
2007-08-22 22:17:00 Here is another really nice one from font-haven DaFont : Libel Suit [DOWNLOAD FONT] addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Findesignhelp.com%2Fawesome- free-font-of-the-week-libel-suit%2F'; addthis_title = 'Awesome +Free +Font+Of+The+Week %3A+Libel+S uit'; addthis_pub = '';
Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2, Quick Fix
More articles from this author:2007-08-22 02:06:00 We’ve written a few articles up over the last month on the pesky issue of being asked to “Please Insert Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 to Continue Installation“. Recently we’ve had a reader write in with an alternate suggestion that I feel is worth sharing. Alan noted that the installer is looking for installation media that doesn’t ... More About: Quick 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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