CS4 Posts

Style Highlighting

May 20 2012 • 1:26 PM

A new free script can reveal at a glance where any style has been applied in your documents.

Center that vertically… (Framed)

December 19 2011 • 1:50 AM

Unthreaded text frames, filled with a colour and a single line of capitalized text that is both horizontally and vertically centered.

How to Make Your Own Custom InDesign Panel

July 25 2011 • 1:50 PM

You can design and create your own working InDesign panel in 5 minutes!

Water FX

April 24 2011 • 6:42 PM

Water, water everywhere. Three-quarters of the planet is covered with it. Sixty percent of you is water. And with the help of a blending mode, you can add a drop or two of H2O to your designs.

Option-Dragging Back to Default Formatting

February 28 2011 • 10:06 PM

Did you ever try option-dragging an object to make a copy of it using the Direct Selection tool? If so, you may have witnessed this weird phenomenon.

Tab Tab Tab…

February 14 2011 • 11:17 PM

Although most of us today will use InDesign’s table and table styles features to distribute ‘tabular’ data across the width of the page – instead of painstakingly trying to align and set tabs – I am for some reason compelled to write about tabs today :-) I hope it makes them feel part of InDesign again after I’ve been deserting them for a bit :)

How Frame Fitting Options Affect Paste Into

January 5 2011 • 7:24 AM

If you’ve ever been confused or frustrated with the results of pasting a graphic from one frame to another, this one’s for you.

Locking Objects For Easier Aligning

November 2 2010 • 6:07 PM

A quick tip on how to make any object the “key object” when aligning.

Updated Free Live Preflight Profiles for CS4 and CS5

September 23 2010 • 3:58 PM

The free preflight profiles available from VIGC have been improved and expanded.

A Little GREP Gripe

September 16 2010 • 6:50 PM

The ability to use GREP in a Find/Change is pretty sweet, but there’s at least one limitation that could leave a bad taste in your mouth.