Posts by Cari Jansen

Why would you not want to use blank lines in your layout?

Consider this part 2 in the series ‘working with text on a tinted background’!

Unthreaded text frames, filled with a colour and a single line of capitalized text that is both horizontally and vertically centered.

Back in InDesign CS3 Text Variables were introduced. Amongst a number of things we can use them to automatically generate running headers at the top of book or report pages, by placing a text variable placeholder on the master page that automatically inserts text formatted with a pre-allocated paragraph style.

This blog-post gives an example of how InDesign CS5.5’s new Linked Story feature can be used.

Smart Guides were introduced in InDesign CS4. By now most of us have probably encountered them, those green and pink smarties that pop-up when we are moving objects around the page or resizing or transforming objects. But have you encountered the blue ones yet?

InDesign CS5 really helps us keep our balance (and sanity). Working with vertically justified column text in the past (InDesign CS4 and earlier) has been a painful balancing act.

Although most of us today will use InDesign’s table and table styles features to distribute ‘tabular’ data across the width of the page – instead of painstakingly trying to align and set tabs – I am for some reason compelled to write about tabs today I hope it makes them feel part of InDesign again after I’ve been deserting them for a bit

Thanks to some Page tool magic, we van use this simple technique to create vertical master page and document spreads in InDesign CS5.

In my previous post, I wrote about the Page Tool. Not only can you use this tool to resize pages, you can also use it to reposition pages and their content. Anyone who designs artwork that is going to be wire-o bound for instance, would probably like to be able to a) design the document pages as spreads and b) be able to break-up these spreads when the time has come to deliver finished art PDFs to the printer.