Posts by Sandee Cohen

Releasing Inlines

January 19 2012 • 8:28 PM

How to move an inline graphic out of the text flow.

Adding notes to non-text objects

November 29 2011 • 11:22 AM

How to use the Scripts Label panel to add notes to objects

The strength of a loaded cursor

October 10 2011 • 8:15 AM

It happened. InDesign crashed. One moment I was working happily, and the next InDesign was gone with a message about quitting unexpectedly. (On Windows this would have been that InDesign had stopped working.)
I restarted the program. As expected, InDesign restored the document I had been working on. But there were a few surprises.
First, not only [...]

Creating Proper Primes

August 29 2011 • 9:03 AM

How to type feet and inch marks and then use GREP styles to automatically format them as prime and double prime characters.

What’s the use for Horizontal and Vertical Scale on text

August 19 2011 • 11:07 AM

Turns out those fields for adjusting text’s Horizontal and Vertical Scale can actually come in quite handy!

ID Preflight captures an obscure Illustrator error

April 6 2009 • 6:14 AM

I’m not saying this is wrong, but InDesign’s new Preflight feature works a little more advanced than I thought it would.
I have an ID document with the Preflight setting for images to reject any color images with resolution under 250 ppi.
I placed an Illustrator file with a glow into the ID file. Now glows automatically [...]

Adobe extends pricing deals on CS4!

March 2 2009 • 6:18 PM

Just got this press release from Adobe.
What it means is that those who have CS2 or CS1 or even Macromedia Studio will be able to upgrade to CS4 with the special pricing.
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Adobe today extended its introductory pricing offer for Adobe Creative Suite 4 until April 30, 2009. With the launch of Creative Suite 4 in [...]

Transcribing sound files (YES!) and then getting the text into ID (How?)

January 25 2009 • 4:51 PM

I apologize for this post as I only know half of what I want to know, so I’m posting this as an open-ended question for some brilliant person to come and finish the technique. But first, the background.
Did you know that Adobe Sound Booth CS4 now has a terrific transcribing feature? This means you can [...]

Putting SWFs into InDesign documents

December 28 2008 • 4:12 PM

I can’t tell you what a long and sad story this is. But bear with me.
Billions of years ago, (around the time of Acrobat 5) I wrote a book with two friends all about the interactive features in Acrobat PDF files.
One of the coolest things we demonstrated was how you could add SWF movies from [...]

Adobe Pulling out of Macworld?

December 16 2008 • 4:14 PM

I can’t guarantee this varacity of this report, but AppleInsider has reported that Adobe will not have a booth at Macworld Expo this year.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/12/05/more-names-pull-out-of-macworld-09-jobs-still-not-announced
The story says that Adobe is pulling out due to slow sales of Creative Suite 4.
Sad news if true.