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Need a place to vent about InDesign, or Adobe in general? Here’s a new resource … and Adobe is listening.

Splitting a frame into a grid of smaller frames isn’t that hard… once you know the secret!

David explores two fun tricks that make the Pencil tool a bit more useful

Need to see a report of all the styles used in a document, including their individual specifications down to the last Keeps option? Check out this free script from Dave Saunders.

Find/Change is not just for text or object attributes. A frequently-overlooked feature, Change to Clipboard Contents, is your key to quickly inserting hundreds of repeated inline graphics, replacing their text placeholders.

One of InDesign’s great little capabilities is that it’s so simple to just place a PDF file. But like everything else in life, it’s just not perfect.

Once in a while an error alert will pop up saying “Failed to Open the PDF” That’s hardly a very specific or helpful error especially since you’re not trying [...]

InDesign has a lot of panels… you don’t want to see them all at the same time!

Making a vertical line in a table without using tables requires some tricky text maneuvering

About a month ago I got a file from someone that showed text that was rasterized during flattening.

It didn’t take long to figure out why the text had been rasterized and I fixed the file easily. Turns out that someone had turned on the preference for Text Wrap Only Affects Text Beneath in Composition Preferences.

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What do you do when Print Booklet starts unexpectedly adding pages?