We’re happy to report that the Mac OS 10.4.8 update apparently fixes the terrible measurements problem Mac Intel/MacTel users have been experiencing with InDesign. Branislav Milic first reported this on his French InDesign site a couple of weeks ago (based on the prerelease beta of the Apple Mac OS update), but now that 10.4.8 has […]
read moreSometimes the relationship between creative professionals and their printers is not the best. My recent blogs point out some of the tensions. For example, Bob Levine wrote in my Creating PDF: Export or Use Distiller blog, “Send[ing] pre-flattened PDFs may be the safest choice when you have no idea of the printer, but as the […]
read moreI’m doing some of the publicity for my seminar in New York and Seattle and I thought it would be nice to have some postcard-size handouts. I could mail the cards to friends as well as distribute them at the New York InDesign User Group meeting in October. Very reasonable, yes? Well here’s my disaster […]
read moreI love being able to add footnotes in CS2 — I just click where I want a footnote and choose Type > Insert Footnote. The footnote text appears at the bottom of the text. I know that I’ll get 10 comments about how
the footnote feature is limited and doesn’t do everything it should (such as […]
Here are some recent Adobe InDesign tech support documents you might find helpful:
Zapf Dingbats font prints incorrectly to PostScript printers (InDesign CS or Illustrator CS on Mac OSX)
Troubleshoot system errors or freezes in InDesign (CS2 on Windows XP)
InDesign lists an incorrect file name for graphics placed in a Word file (CS, CS2)
Stories reflow in unexpected […]
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Wade wrote:
One thing that has always frustrated me is that InDesign cannot transform an object by reflection (as Illustrator can). You can move, scale, rotate, and shear, but reflect does not exist. I have found a way to do it, by grabbing a middle side handle of the frame and dragging it across the object to the other side, but this is a manual process and requires the use of a guide to ensure that the new frame size is identical to what it was originally. Any other, easier ways?
Wade, here’s a much easier solution — one which almost no one ever thinks of, but is obvious after you do it once:
read moreInDesign’s table cells are odd little things. They look like empty spaces surrounded by enclosing frame edges, which are what empty text frames look like, right? And you can click inside then with the Type tool and add text, just like text frames.
But, unlike normal text frames, you can’t click on table cells with the Selection tool and get resize handles, and more to the point, you can’t make an individual cell show a “normal” text frame’s inport and outport boxes (those little guys upper left and lower right that you use to thread one frame to another). In fact you can’t select a table cell with the Selection tool at all — you always use the Type tool, that’s InDesign 101. (Or maybe 201).
So if you need to text to automatically flow from one cell to another, but you can’t thread the cells together, what should you do?
read moreIn last week’s post I discussed how using InDesign’s Export Adobe PDF feature and PDF presets make it quick and easy to create a PDF for a particular workflow—commercial printing, a desktop printer or the web. But you may work with a printer who insists that you shouldn’t send them directly-exported PDF files. Instead, they […]
read moreDave wrote us,
read moreHow do you change a Pantone color name in InDesign? We’re trying to change the name and it’s locked.
