Posts by Mike Rankin

A new free script can reveal at a glance where any style has been applied in your documents.

This is one post that’s sure to push your buttons. Or to get you pushing some of your own.

We spend so much time and effort to make things look perfect in InDesign. Now it’s time to make something look really bad. But in a good way!

Does your text mysteriously change size when you export from InDesign to EPUB? The way InDesign handles text scaling may be the cause.

Through the use of zero leading, you can make text in separate paragraphs appear on the same line. You can use this idea to solve some tricky formatting problems in a TOC.

Here’s a tip with zome “zip”: combine InDesign FX with Type on a Path to create a zipper effect.

Is there a way to combine the attributes of multiple cell styles in a table? And what does it really mean when a cell style ignores formatting?

Just in time for Halloween: here’s how to make (or find) a ghost lurking in your InDesign document.

When it comes to applying transparency to live text, Quark gives you finer control than InDesign. But there ways of working around this limitation. You just have to think outside the box, er, frame. Whatever. Read the post.

Here’s a little guide showing which InDesign preferences are document-specific and which ones are application-wide.