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Fix the ?Please insert Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 to continue installatio
2007-07-19 19:24:00 This error will sometimes pop up when you’re attempting to reinstall a CS3 product. It generally happens after you’ve had an unsuccessful installation and are trying to install again. This can occur when Installing InDesign CS3 or any of the CS3 collections. Although the error is pretty confusing the solution is nice ... More About: Adobe , Bugs , Ends , Lease , Toolkit
Create a Color Theme With Adobe Kuler
2007-07-17 17:55:00 There are a whole bunch of color theme generators out there, but Adobe themselves makes one of the best. Kuler has a full set of fun tools for creating and manipulating themes. Even better, you can browse popular themes created by others. Even better BETTER, you can export the color theme as a swatch library ... More About: Color , Theme , Create
Change Text Frame Shapes in InDesign
2007-07-17 15:20:00 Circles not fancy enough for you? Luckily InDesign gives you lots of control when creating text frames so you don’t have to be confined to text boxes. One great way of manipulating the shape of text frames is to use the patherfinder tool. The pathfinder tool allows you to combine shapes in ... More About: Change , Shapes , Text , Frame , Chang
Make Circular Text Frames in InDesign
2007-07-16 16:49:00 Text boxes are great. They allow better layout and work nicely to group text into objects. The normal Text Box works great for 95% of any layout you’re going to do, but what about that other 5%? Well, that’s what this week’s articles are on; text frames and how to liven ... More About: Tutorial , Text , Make , Frame , Ames
Begin an InDesign Document with a Left Handed Page
2007-07-14 20:00:00 They are many reasons you might want to begin an InDesign document with a left handed page. For example, you are putting together printer spreads for a cover design. You need four pages: a Front Cover, Back Cover, Inside Front Cover, and Inside Back Cover. You are going to want spreads, but when you create ... More About: Tutorial , Page , Left , Document , Handed
Awesome Free Font Of The Week: BEBAS
2007-07-14 00:00:00 From the bowels of DaFont , arguably the best free font site on the world wide interwebs comes this awesome specimen of a font: BEBAS. Bebas looks it's best at large font sizes as it doesn't hold up as well with readability when it's small. But large, oh baby, does it look ... More About: Awesome , Free , Week , Some
Awesome Free Font Of The Week: BEBAS
2007-07-13 20:40:00 From the bowels of DaFont , arguably the best free font site on the world wide interwebs comes this awesome specimen of a font: BEBAS. Bebas looks it’s best at large font sizes as it doesn’t hold up as well with readability when it’s small. But large, oh baby, does it look clean and nice. It’s very ... More About: Awesome , Free , Week , Some
Create Proper Name Index Entries in InDesign CS3
2007-07-13 00:00:00 When making an Index in InDesign CS3 you may run into some into some problems. The biggest problem is trying to Index a book, which I highly recommend not doing in CS3. We?ll save that for another time as this article is about what you can do, not ... More About: Create , Prop , Trie , Rope
Create Proper Name Index Entries in InDesign CS3
2007-07-12 20:01:00 When making an Index in InDesign CS3 you may run into some into some problems. The biggest problem is trying to Index a book, which I highly recommend not doing in CS3. We?ll save that for another time as this article is about what you can do, not what you can?t. In InDesign ... More About: Bugs , Create , Prop , Trie
Quark to InDesign Conversion
2007-07-12 00:00:00 Thinking of converting your Quark files over to InDesign? Do it soon, as Quark seems to be on the way out and has no incentive to make it easy on you. Quark has been feeling the sting of superior InDesign for years now and they don't intend to go ... More About: Conversion , Version , Indesign
Free Tech Support for Adobe CS2 ends this week
2007-07-12 00:00:00 Adobe's long standing support policy has been to give free tech support for current products + 90 days. Basically you have free support while you own the most current version and then you get a grace period of 90 days, after the release of the next version of the ... More About: Adobe , Tech , Free , Support , Week
Windows: InDesign CS2 starts when you double-click on an InDesign CS3 file
2007-07-12 00:00:00 If you uninstalled InDesign CS1 or CS2 after installing CS3 you have probably ran into a problem with file associations. A file association problem causes a different application to be launched when you double click on a document instead of the intended one. A common problem is having InDesign CS2 ... More About: Windows , File , Double , Click , Indesign
Overprint Preview Wacking out PDF?s
2007-07-12 00:00:00 Have you ever sent someone a PDF you exported from InDesign and when they look at it, it looks completely wrong, but when you open it, it looks completely perfect? We could do a whole series about this, but here is a good first step: Have them turn on the the ... More About: Preview
InDesign Text Walker Error
2007-07-12 00:00:00 'Cannot load Spelling Service.framework because it requires Text Walk er.' The text walker error is an interesting one. Mostly it's interesting because what it usually means is, 'put the application back in it's folder'. If you ever happen to get the Text Walker error then 90% chance it's because ... More About: Error , Indesign
Exporting to PDF results in four plates
2007-07-12 00:00:00 With the release of CS3 many people have been having issues where their PDFs result in 4 plate separations when they are expecting just one or two. This is usually due to two main reasons, those preferences you set years ago when you first got CS2 and then forgot ... More About: Results , Late , Result
InDesign CS3 to CS2 conversion
2007-07-12 00:00:00 Here's the scenario: you're an early adapter and got your little hands on a brand new copy of CS3 two months ago. You play with the new features, make a great document and send it to your printer. Then you get the call, you're document can't be opened ... More About: Conversion , Version , Indesign
Repair a damaged InDesign Document
2007-07-12 00:00:00 A damaged document can wreck anyone's day. Especially if said document is your only copy and you need to send it to the printers yesterday. Yes, its nobody's fault but your own that you didn't save multiple copies and didn't save a copy to disk but reflecting on ... More About: Document , Damage , Repair , Indesign , Damaged
InDesign Won?t Open Pagemaker Files in Vista
2007-07-12 00:00:00 That's right, it just won't. Just as Adobe had tons of fun when Mac changed to the Intel chip and everyone expected CS2 to work perfect without reading the system requirements, there are a few hangups with Vista . Like most things involving Vista this is a Microsoft issue ... More About: Open , Files , Indesign
InDesign Will Drop A Cap In Yo Paragrass
2007-07-12 00:00:00 Sorry. The dropcap feature in InDesign is quite cool though. If you didn't know about this feature, you might have just created a small text box with the large letter in it, placed it at the upper left of a paragraph, and text wrapped around it. That's fine, but that's a ... More About: Agra , Drop , Indesign
Windows: InDesign CS2 starts when you double-click on an InDesign CS3 file
2007-07-11 18:29:00 If you uninstalled InDesign CS1 or CS2 after installing CS3 you have probably ran into a problem with file associations. A file association problem causes a different application to be launched when you double click on a document instead of the intended one. A common problem is having InDesign CS2 launch when you are double ... More About: Windows , File , Double , Click , Indesign
Free Tech Support for Adobe CS2 ends this week
2007-07-10 15:17:00 Adobe’s long standing support policy has been to give free tech support for current products + 90 days. Basically you have free support while you own the most current version and then you get a grace period of 90 days, after the release of the next version of the product. CS3 was released ... More About: News , Adobe , Tech , Free , Support
InDesign Text Walker Error
2007-07-09 17:06:00 ‘Cannot load Spelling Service.framework because it requires Text Walk er.’ The text walker error is an interesting one. Mostly it’s interesting because what it usually means is, ‘put the application back in it’s folder’. If you ever happen to get the Text Walker error then 90% chance it’s because you, or somebody else, pulled ... More About: Error , Indesign
Overprint Preview Wacking out PDF?s
2007-07-08 19:44:00 Have you ever sent someone a PDF you exported from InDesign and when they look at it, it looks completely wrong, but when you open it, it looks completely perfect? We could do a whole series about this, but here is a good first step: Have them turn on the the Overprint Preview in your PDF ...
InDesign Won?t Open Pagemaker Files in Vista
2007-07-06 15:48:00 That’s right, it just won’t. Just as Adobe had tons of fun when Mac changed to the Intel chip and everyone expected CS2 to work perfect without reading the system requirements, there are a few hangups with Vista . Like most things involving Vista this is a Microsoft issue and not a third party ... More About: Open , Files , Indesign
Quark to InDesign Conversion
2007-07-05 16:23:00 Thinking of converting your Quark files over to InDesign? Do it soon, as Quark seems to be on the way out and has no incentive to make it easy on you. Quark has been feeling the sting of superior InDesign for years now and they don’t intend to go down without a fight. ... More About: Conversion , Version , Indesign
Exporting to PDF results in four plates
More articles from this author:2007-07-04 20:09:00 With the release of CS3 many people have been having issues where their PDFs result in 4 plate separations when they are expecting just one or two. This is usually due to two main reasons, those preferences you set years ago when you first got CS2 and then forgot all about. Reason 1: You ... More About: Results , Result 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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