Indesign Secrets

Adobe informed its trainers today that people who are InDesign CS2 Adobe Certified Experts (ACEs) have until May 31, 2008 to take and pass the InDesign CS3 re-certification exam and thus remain current with their ACE status. (Otherwise they lose their certification and have to “start over” with the the full exam, which is more expensive, longer, and can only be taken at a proctored location.) The new date is a full month past the original deadline of April 30, 2008.

Have you ever needed to break the news to a kid that there is no Santa Claus? Seen the tears well up in their big brown eyes? You can relive that unique experience with new InDesign users. Just ask them to select some text, and then go to the Language menu (in the Control or Character panel) and click.

Almost everyone who has used InDesign has encounted the dialog box shown below. It means that one or more of the fonts in the document you just opened are missing. You have a choice here: You can ignore the problem by clicking OK, or you can fix the problem now. Clicking OK will not change […]

We’ve just learned that in the next “dot” release of InDesign (version 5.0.3.1.r42), Adobe is removing all support for printing. The File > Print command will be replaced with File > Export to AIR and the various print-based PDF Presets will be removed, in favor of three new presets, including one for PDF/X-6 (which, as […]

Our colleague Tim Cole has passed along some news regarding the InDesign CS3 Certification and Re-certification exams in his blog. As was reported here earlier, a new version of the recertification exam has been posted with revised questions (and some questions have been removed).
Other news: (1) Those who passed the earlier recertification exam for InDesign […]

Luke wrote: I wondered if there was any way of stopping InDesign from hyphenating text between frames? As it stands, I usually finish a book by running through it and fixing these, but it would be great if it could be done automatically.

Yes, many publishers and art directors dislike hyphenating words from one page to the next. The good news is that it can be prevented easily and automatically, but you need to upgrade to CS3 for this feature. The trick is to turn off the Hyphenate Across Columns checkbox, which you can find by choosing Hyphenation from the Control panel menu, or in the Hyphenation pane of the Edit Paragraph Styles dialog box…

Hot off the newswire… I just received this note from someone at Adobe:
“We have written and re-posted the InDesign CS3 recertification exam, rewritten the practice questions on the prep guide, and this week we are going to temporarily take down the InDesign CS3 certification exam and revise that too. The new recertification exam is listed […]

In the continuing soap opera revolving around whether InDesign CS3 is compatible with Apple’s latest operating system version, Leopard, a new chapter has been added, but the serial continues. On Monday, February 11, Apple released the latest update to Leopard—10.5.2. While it included a very large number of bug fixes and enhancements, it does not […]

InDesign CS3 has a wonderful docking system for panels, but it does have some room for improvement. One frustration is how to get a panel or a group of panels to dock along the left side of the window. The problem is that the pesky Tool panel gets in the way! Here’s the trick:
Pull the […]

If you’re interested in becoming an ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) in InDesign, you should know that the CS3 exam was released a few weeks ago. Those of us who are InDesign CS2 ACEs have until April 30, 2008 to take and pass the CS3 recertification exam.

If the practice test questions in the Prep Guide are any indication, the exam has taken a turn for the worse in regards to clarity and accuracy.