Creative Suite Posts

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 [...]

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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InDesign is used in ways you may not expect, including interactive design wireframing

Most designers are unlikely to be aware of dimension limits in the applications they’re using until they try to create a document that exceeds those limits and are greeted with a message like this:

That message is pretty straightforward. InDesign can only create a 216″ document. Let’s just scale it to 50%.

We’re good to go, right? [...]

Are you feeling limited or even trapped by the measly 1,000 or so spot colors available in the Pantone spot color libraries? Good news: Pantone has recently introduced a brand new spot color system, the Pantone Goe system. The Goe system adds 2,058 new colors for the color starved designer. The original Pantone Matching System [...]

Problems with auto-activation? Join the club.

Sometimes finding something as simple as a serial number can require a trick

Question: What is the secret of getting numbers to align correctly in  numbered lists in CS3? If you want numbers to align on the decimal or  align right, simply choosing “Align right” in the Bullet or Number  Position area seldom does the job. It takes a lot of fiddling. Is there any logic  going on [...]

If what I see on the User to User forums is any indication there seems to be some confusion out there concerning upgrades. Let’s get the definitions out of the way which will hopefully save some folks a bit of grief when deciding what to buy.

Upsell. An upsell allows the purchaser to buy a new [...]

As much as I love the Paragraph Composer in InDesign, its omnipotent control over how lines break is sometimes maddening. If nine out of ten lines in a paragraph have perfect breaks, and you want to make it ten out of ten (without actually editing the text), forget it! The Paragraph Composer will thwart you [...]