Continuing the Long Documents series with the same book files used in Episode 33, this installment covers how to create an automated, dynamic Table of Contents for an InDesign book. Along the way, I emphasize the unique and critical relationship between an InDesign Table of Contents and Paragraph Styles, without which none of this would […]
read moreJust before the holidays, Adobe did the unexpected and released a public beta of Photoshop CS3. One of the most notable features of the new version is a totally revamped interface. While Adobe has not announced the fact, it is widely expected that this is not just for Photoshop alone but will be the new […]
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For those of us who just live for “what’s coming next,” you might have fun peeking at Adobe’s new icon and color branding for their applications. John Nack posted a fun piece, including a color wheel of icons, perhaps as a holiday treat to us all. Apparently, gone are the butterflies and pastels. Now we’ve […]
read moreOne of the things I like most about InDesign’s table of contents feature is that it’s document-wide rather than simply story-wide. That means that any text in any text frame can be included in a table of contents — even text in a nonprinting text frame. With this in mind, you can add “tags” to […]
read morePeter wrote:
I am working on a building signage project, and one of the challenge is to layout hundreds of room identification signs at the same size, but all the room numbers / room names and pictograms are different, and we need to keep them at precisely the same position. We have an Excel database of all the information, but are just wondering if there is a faster way to do this kind of layout in either Indesign or Illustrator.
What you’re talking about is database publishing: Taking data from a database or spreadsheet and making it pretty in InDesign…
read moreOur friend Russell Viers, who runs the very funny and informative site Yabb-Adobe-Doo, has posted a wonderful InDesign tip in comic format. The tip has to do with an “easter egg” — a hidden and undocumented feature inside InDesign — that lets you create “Christmas lights” and apply them to any path as a custom stroke style. Plus, as a bonus, the comic strip features another friend and colleague, Scott Citron! Laugh out loud. Joe Bob says Check it Out.
And, as an extra bonus for reading this post, we’ll give you a hint about some other…
read moreP-hall wrote:
“Whenever I save a file as a Template and place it on a server for clients to use, they find that double-clicking on it just produces a copy of the file.”
You have discovered an unseemly truth about InDesign’s templates: They’re one of the few truly poorly implemented features in the program. On the Macintosh, […]
Recently, Zak Williamson of Adobe put out the call to InDesign users to please send in any crash reports. Zak is the Technical Director of the “Text Technology Team” (go, Text Technology Team, go! this is your year!) at Adobe Systems.
In his post to the InDesign Talk listserv, Zak said, “I’d like to encourage everyone to send this information if you encounter a crash. We do look at the logs. They are very helpful.” I’m thinking that perhaps now is the time when Zak and his teammates can make sure any bugs that may have caused the crash aren’t in the upcoming InDesign CS3, due out in spring of 2007.
read moreWithin Photoshop, a shadow set to Multiply blend mode will darken what’s underneath it. The Multiply blend mode is sort of like what happens when you sandwich two slides together and hold them up to a light: The strengths of the colors in the slides are combined. (I confess I think of them as being […]
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