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Adobe Releases InDesign 5.02 Update
2008-01-28 22:24:00 Adobe released the InDesign 5.02 update on 1/22/08. You can download the update for the Mac by clicking here or for the PC by clicking here. There was a bit of a delay between the release and my posting about it, maybe next time Adobe won’t rudely put out an update on my ... More About: Adobe , Update , Indesign
InDesign CS2 Classroom in a Book. Chapter 13: Using XML
2008-01-23 21:18:00 My “new” iMac is having some DVD issues so I decided to go the download route in order to install my CS3 applications. Wishing to forgo Adobe.com I checked out their FTP site to see if InDesign CS3 was available there. Unfortunately, no. No, it’s not. Fortunately I did stumble upon ... More About: Tutorial , Book , Chapter , Indesign
What do you want to see in InDesign CS4?
2008-01-22 00:50:00 InDesignCS4.com has a simple question: What do you want to see in InDesign CS4? I’m a simple man. I actually wouldn’t mind seeing less features. As well as, of course, stability and reliability. More About: Update , Indesign
Awesome Free Font of the Week: African
2008-01-18 02:09:00 Heres you’re weekly dose of free fontage. This font is called “African ” by Allen Walden, enjoy. [Download Font ] More About: Awesome , Free , Week
Adobe Photoshop PSD files inside InDesign PDFs: What happens?
2008-01-16 22:23:00 Adobe InDesign allows you to place Adobe Photoshop (.psd) files directly into page layouts. But what happens when you export that layout to a PDF? Does it retain any of the Photoshop file characteristics? Here’s the deal: As long as you use PDF v1.4 or higher, it uses the same transparency model as Photoshop, so it ... More About: Adobe , Adobe Photoshop , Inside , Files
InDesign CS3: Black Prints as Gray
2008-01-15 21:10:00 Mark recently wrote in with a problem he was having in InDesign CS3. The color black printed out slightly more grayish than he was anticipating. He is using Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) but the problem and solution are the same on Windows XP and Vista as well as when using InDesign CS or CS2. Mark’s ... More About: Black , Prints , Gray , Indesign
InDesign CS3 and Macworld 2008
2008-01-11 03:32:00 It’s that time of year again, Macworld time. It’s a fun and exciting time in the desktop publishing world, especially as this world is increasingly becoming a “Mac World”. Mac’s have long reigned supreme in the world of graphics, typography and layout and with each passing year the excitement continues to grow. As a lead up ... More About: News , 2008 , Indesign
Print to Web - Is it worth it?
2008-01-08 23:47:00 There is a pretty interesting conversion going on over at Print Planet about Print to Web. It’s not specifically about InDesign, but I figure many of you InDesign folks out there may be interested in this. In a sense, print to web is kind of ANTI-InDesign, since it’s basically just form data that gets plugged into templates ... More About: News , Worth
Applying an Arc to Text
2008-01-04 22:20:00 Shannon, a different Shannon from yesterday strangely enough, writes in ands asks, “Seems like a simple task, but how do you apply an arc to a text? I’m trying to wrap text around my co. logo and I can’t seem to figure it out.” Unfortunately I don’t have the logo but I’ll still answer ... More About: Tutorial , Text
What are InDesign CS3 IDLK Files?
2008-01-03 23:04:00 InDesign Help reader, Shannon, recently wrote in with a question about files with an IDLK file extension. Her problem ended up being a bit complex and somewhat specific to her permissions/network but I thought it would be beneficial to all to briefly go over what IDLK files are and what they aren’t. IDLK files are ... More About: Files , Indesign
Kind of Awesome Free Font of the Week: Bad Hangover
2008-01-02 22:24:00 For those of you who did a little too much imbibing over the holidays. Download Font by clicking HERE More About: Awesome , Free , Week , Hangover
Can You Run InDesign CS2 on a Mac Pro?
2007-12-17 15:13:00 YES. You can. But remember that if you have (or ever have) installed InDesign CS3 on that machine before, you need to uninstall it (using the official uninstaller) before you can install CS2 successfully. More info at PrintPlanet. Good luck. More About: Indesign
Awesome Free Font of the Week: Relato Sans
2007-12-13 18:59:00 This is a complete OpenType font (that means it includes a bunch of alternate characters and glyphs, in other words, awesome). DOWNLOAD FONT More About: Awesome , Free , Week , Font , Some
Problems with ONYX Postershop 6.5
2007-12-06 18:31:00 Reader Malcom writes in to ask: When greyscale or bitmap images placed in InDesign CS2 or CS3 (mac) are printed to ONYX Postershop 6.5, the images invert to negative. This doesn’t happen in Quark. I can get around it by reversing the image to a negative in CS2, however, this doesn’t work in InDesign CS3 as the images don’t ... More About: Bugs , Problems , Onyx
Don?t Think of InDesign as a Ferrari, Think of InDesign as a Swiss Army Kni
2007-12-05 16:49:00 We recently had a reader write in with a question about an InDesign feature and ended by saying that he really didn’t want to switch to InDesign because it’s kind of like “going to the grocery store in a Ferrari ”. It was a pretty funny analogy, but I want to try to dispel that myth a ... More About: Army , Swiss , Swiss Army , Indesign
Different Page Sizes in the Same InDesign Document
2007-12-03 18:13:00 Reader Joanne wrote in to ask how she might be able to create a folded document with one half being portrait and the other being landscape. Technically, these are the same page size, just different orientations. If you want to work on them both “right side up” technically they will be different page sizes ... More About: Page , Document , Diff , Indesign
Leopard, Helvetica, and InDesign
2007-11-29 17:43:00 If you are an Adobe Indesign layout artist who has upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard , you have likely experienced a problem or two with Helvetica. We had some warning before we went into this that Helvetica was to become a system font in Leopard. That means that the operating system is going to take ... More About: Bugs
Awesome Free Font of the Week: Fontin Sans
2007-11-27 18:27:00 Gotta love these free fonts that come in a complete family and are very nice and professional. [DOWNLOAD FONT] More About: Awesome , Free , Week , Font , Some
Installing InDesign CS3 on Leopard (Mac OS 10.5)
2007-11-15 23:46:00 Two weeks ago we posted an article on InDesign CS3 Leopard Compatibility. While the amount of outright bugs in InDesign CS3/OS 10.5 is minimal I think it’s a good idea to discuss possible problems people may have. First off I would highly recommend not upgrading your OS if you have any mission critical work that ... More About: Indesign
Manage Fonts in InDesign CS3 (Windows XP)
2007-11-14 20:48:00 InDesign users tend to use more fonts than the average bear. Fonts are a key component to good design, whether it be web design or print work. Because of this its important to actively think of font use and have a variety of fonts at hand. Here at InDesign Help we encourage ... More About: Windows , Tutorial , Windows Xp , Manage
Simulate Overprint on an InDesign PDF Export
2007-11-08 22:02:00 If you are using overprinted objects in InDesign and need to export a PDF, it is best to “lock in” that overprint so that anyone opening the PDF will see it correctly. If you don’t do this, and the person viewing the PDF doesn’t know to turn on Overprint Preview, things can look horribly wrong. Here ... More About: Trick , Export , Indesign
InDesign CS3 Leopard Compatibility
2007-11-01 19:42:00 The long awaited Mac OS 10.5 operating system is finally out and by most accounts it’s rocking. This, alas, is not a rave of Leopard , but a list of bugs found when Apple OS X interacts with InDesign 5 (CS3). The good news is that it appears to work and Adobe has even ... More About: Bugs , Compatibility , Indesign
Awesome Free Font of the Week: Vintage
2007-10-31 01:09:00 [DOWNLOAD FONT] More About: Awesome , Free , Vintage , Week , Font
Missing Printing Options? Reinstall Printer Drivers.
2007-10-21 21:53:00 If you are attempting to print from Adobe InDesign and something just isn’t right, perhaps you are missing some options you think should be there but aren’t, your first stop should be to download and install the latest printer drivers from your printer’s manufacturer’s website. Not only is it a good idea to keep your ... More About: Drivers , Options , Printer , Missing , Printing
Awesome Free Font of the Week: Asenine
2007-10-19 18:02:00 I really like thin weight fonts with some style. Helvetica Neue UltraLight is a go-to standard, but it’s good to have some options. [DOWNLOAD FONT] More About: Awesome , Free , Week , Font , Some
InDesign 5.0.1 Update: Fixes Stuff
2007-10-17 02:21:00 Adobe has released the 5.0.1 update for InDesign CS3. It weights in at 49.1 MB and includes a number of highly sought after fixes: Fix for indexing bug, that has plagued the land. Fix for .indd files placed within layouts causing banding. No longer crashes when deleting a swatch used in a transparency effect. Wow, hadn’t heard of ... More About: News , Stuff , Update , Indesign
Removing the White Background in Placed Images
2007-10-15 17:37:00 Reader Kirsty writes in: I have placed some images into my document which have a white background, is there anyway to change the background so it blends with rest of background image? It would be nice if you could just select the image and tell it to overprint. Since that is kind of like “multiplying”, the white ... More About: Images , White , Trick , Background , Ages
Controlling Your Color Profiles On Import
2007-10-13 01:26:00 If you are placing and Adobe Photoshop document into an Adobe InDesign document, you have a variety of options (should you choose to use them), including managing the color profile. All you need to do is make sure the “Show Import Options” dialog is checked when choosing your file for importing (Command-D). Within this dialog box ... More About: Color , Trick , Profiles , Profil
Richer, Better Printing Pantone Gradients in InDesign
2007-10-09 18:12:00 If you are creating a creating a gradient in InDesign from two Pantone colors that will be printing on a printing press, there are a few problems you may run into. One is banding, which happens especially often if an object with transparency is placed over this gradient. Your best bet is to do some ... More About: Trick , Printing , Gradient , Tone , Adie
Scale Multiple Objects Without Grouping
More articles from this author:2007-10-05 04:48:00 If you want to rescale a number of objects in your document it’s usually easiest to group them up so you can just grab a single handle and resize as you please. But what if those objects span across multiple layers? You can’t group them because they will all bunch up on one layer. The ... More About: Objects , Scale 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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