CS3 Posts

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

A year or so ago, I mentioned that CS3’s Welcome Screen had a dynamic area that could change from time to time. Well, it recently changed for (as far as I know) the first time. Suddenly, Adobe felt compelled to put a little notice about CS3.3 and Acrobat 9 in the welcome screen. I think [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been using transparent PSD files from Photoshop since the release of InDesign 2.0. I still remember the first time I used one and experienced a feeling of wonderment I’d never felt before when laying out a page. I felt free from the rigors of faking backgrounds with full page TIF files or drawing clipping [...]

Oh, woe is us! It appears that the CID font mess never really left us. Some of you may remember that when InDesign CS came out, all heck broke loose because it started to write its fonts in its PDF files using something called CID encoding. We don’t need to get into the technical details [...]

Mac users can skip this one.
There have been scattered reports in the InDesign Windows User to User forums from of CS3 crashing when opening files from either Bridge or Explorer. Apparently the folks at Adobe have found a workaround but not an exact cause or fix.
As explained in this TechNote article, the workaround, besides not [...]

Gatefold spreads contain more than two adjoining pages and are commonly used for large brochures or ad designs. To create a gatefold spread in InDesign, select a page (single-sided document), or a spread (facing pages document) by clicking their respective thumbnails in the Pages panel. Then choose Allow Selected Spread To Shuffle from the Pages [...]

Abbe wrote: I like to use InDesign’s auto-numbering feature, but don’t see a way to decimal align the numbers when they reach double digits. When my numerals exceed 9, I stop using the feature and start setting tabs. Am I missing something?

You are missing something, but it’s very easy to see why — it’s not at all obvious how to do this. Here’s a sample of a numbered list…

For me, the Adobe/Macromedia merger has finally borne fruit today, with the announcement of Acrobat 9. While CS3 had a few nods to the fact that the two company’s programs would play together (barely), this new version of Acrobat makes it clear by integrating the Flash (SWF) format into the PDF viewer.

The demos I’ve seen [...]

Anyone visiting Adobe’s website for the next five weeks or so looking for product demos is going to be greeted with a one sentence statement:

Product trials are unavailable until July 1. We apologize for any inconvenience. For additional details, please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

The reason according the referenced FAQ is a bug [...]