For a few years now, I’ve been one of the presenters of Adobe online seminars for print service providers and those who do print production. The seminars are about 90 minutes long, and are free. They are focused on teaching about the applications in the Adobe Creative Suite, and workflows and techniques useful to all […]
read moreLike many InDesign users, Terry V. is not fond of Word’s hyperlinked text. He writes:
read moreTo me it is a major annoyance that when I import a Word file, all the hyperlinks are in boxes with blue underlined text. Word automatically makes hyperlinks clickable and gives these this hideous layout to make sure your eye doesn’t miss this ugliness, hoping that I click on it so the color changes to another ugly color.
Two attributes of table cells have a long history in the web design field: “cellpadding” (equivalent to InDesign’s “cell inset” or “text frame inset”) and “cellspacing,” which is the amount of space in between the cells. This HTML Code Tutorial page has a decent explanation of the two, with illustrations.
As far as I know, no page layout program with a Table function has a cell spacing feature, including InDesign. So whenever I hear someone ask
read moreMichael wrote: I’m using the Baseline Grid to keep the lines aligned between verso/recto pages, but with my keep options turned off I get orphaned/widowed lines every once in a while. Turning on Keep Options fixes the orphan/widow problem, but makes it so that every once in a while I get one page one or two lines shorter than than the one next to it. While the orphans & widows are typographically annoying, I think the uneven page endings look careless and unprofessional (especially when the difference is two lines).
There’s a third option that I tried: If I set the master text frames to be “vertically justified”, the top and bottom lines always line up, and I can set the keep options to get rid of widows and orphans. The problem with this is that it ignores the leading and gives uneven baselines across the spread, which looks odd when printed out. So my question is this: What do I do?
You know that old one-liner: “Fast, good, or cheap: pick any two”? It’s kind of like that. Unfortunately, there is no great answer to this, but here’s one thing you might want to try…
read moreContinuing with the very long series on long document features after a long break, this episode finally tackles the feature that is the bane of many an InDesign user’s existence: Indexing. This first of two indexing installments covers the basic principles of indexing as they apply to InDesign, including some up-front advice about what to […]
read moreA person on the Adobe InDesign User to User Forum posed this question today: “I usually outline the fonts when I’m making PDFs to send to clients as proofs or to send to the printer. Is it even necessary to outline the fonts? I was always under the impression that if you don’t and the […]
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P.M. wrote:
In the swatches palette, what’s the difference between “white” and “paper”? And how come we can’t delete the [paper] [black] [registration] swatches?
Many InDesign users — especially those who are converts from QuarkXPress — wonder why there is no “White” color in the Swatches palette. Some go so far as to make their own 0% […]
An Adobe engineer has revealed that, unknown to almost all of us, InDesign CS and CS2 have a hidden capability to add a color swatch while editing styles. Imagine this: You’re in the Paragraph Styles palette defining a new paragraph style for a subhead in your publication, and you’d like to color the text a […]
read moreTeacup Software, makers of a bunch of cool plug-ins for InDesign, just released their TypeFitter plug-in free to InCopy users. If you work in an editorial department using InCopy and you need to get text to fit some allocated space, you should definitely take a look at it. Here’s their recent press release:
Teacup Software releases […]
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