Posts by Rufus

Spot Colors and Transparency Flattening in InDesign CS3

By: Rufus
May 3 2007 • 10:15 AM

I was preparing a demo on transparency flattening and to my great surprise there are some very interesting news in InDesign CS3. What I wanted to show was the “White Box Effect” which Steve Werner described very well in this post. The problem happens when transparency is flattened over an object with a Spot Color. [...]

Cast Shadows in InDesign

By: Rufus
March 26 2007 • 12:55 PM

Greetings InDesign users! My name is Rufus Deuchler and I am a graphic designer, trainer and consultant currently living in beautiful Florence, Italy. I am very excited about this opportunity that has been given to me to contribute to InDesign Secrets, and this is my first post.

I was reading Sandee’s post about the Free Transform [...]