There’s nothing wrong with your monitor. This is NOT a video episode. In this week’s show, there’s more to talk about than to see as I discuss re-creating old layouts — specifically QuarkXPress layouts — in InDesign, and I talk you through my method for creating and using a “tracing” of your old file to […]
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InDesignSecrets-015.mp3 (14.2M, 26:33 minutes)
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• Our Adobe On-Demand seminars are now available for downloading (URL below)
• InDesign and Creative Suite Conferences information (ditto)
• Listener Mailbag: Find/Change Unicode characters
• Apply Paragraph styles via Find/Change without losing local formatting
• Default text and image frame backgrounds in QuarkXPress vs. InDesign
• […]
Add depth and interest to an InDesign layout using the “cheap tricks” demonstrated in this episode, which uses a magazine feature to demonstrate what I called “Poor Man’s Lighting Effects” in Episode 4. In the process of building this example, I put a lot of other features to use including dropshadows, transparency, layers, step-and-repeat, object […]
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InDesignSecrets-014.mp3 (13.6M, 25:03 minutes)
• Listener Mailbag: Creating lines for forms (custom underlines, anchored graphics, nested styles); Moving custom Workspaces between computers
• Secrets of creating interactive PDFs in InDesign
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Lock Zero Point
Show Notes:
David’s PatternMaker plug-in from Teacup Software
Where are the custom Workspace .xml files?
Mac OSX: [userhome]/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version […]
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InDesignSecrets-013.mp3 (11.7M, 23:29 minutes)
• Listener tips: Keyboard shortcuts; Understanding the “Gravity” option for text on a path
• InDesign’s “paste formatting” tool: the Eyedropper — tips, workarounds, discoveries
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Justify Text Next to an Object
Happy Pi day! As noted in the show, this episode was recorded on March […]
There are no simple questions when it comes to InDesign. I prove that in this week’s episode in which answering a listener’s simple question about how to align an object to the page leads me to demonstrate three possible ways to do it and introduces the concepts of math operations InDesign can perform for you, […]
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InDesignSecrets-012.mp3 (16M, 30:12 minutes)
Special Edition! Anne-Marie takes her turn as solo host with this follow-up to her e-seminar for Adobe, “Adobe Bridge: Your Creative Hub.” After a quick overview of Bridge, she reviews what Bridge offers InDesign users specifically, and answers some of the InDesign/Bridge questions asked during the session.
Links Anne-Marie mentions […]
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InDesignSecrets-011.mp3 (7.9M, 14:57 minutes)
Special Edition! David flies solo here with answers to tons of questions he received from the audience (but didn’t have time to get to) during his recent e-seminar for Adobe, “InDesign for QuarkXPress Users.”
Links David mentions during this Q&A podcast:
http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/indesign/main.html
http://desktoppub.about.com/od/indesignplugins/
http://www.gluon.com/product-proscaleid.html
View the recorded seminar in your browser: Adobe’s Creative Suite […]
At last, the thrilling conclusion of the Style Sheets Trilogy. The final installment on this topic demonstrates some additional flexibility you can build into your style sheets to account for the unexpected by using samples of nested styles I’ve created. Also, for good measure, you’ll find out what a right-align tab is, and learn how […]
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InDesignSecrets-010.mp3 (9.5M, 18:20 minutes)
• Listener E-Mail: How to make page 1 start on the left side, 2-sided printing in InDesign
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ink Manager
