Layout Posts

Making the Page Number and Pages Panel Numbers Match

July 2 2009 • 2:04 PM

What if you want your pages numbered 4A, 4B, and so on… both on the page and in the Pages panel?

Ease Your Print Production Folding Pain

June 28 2009 • 6:40 PM

Creating folds properly is one of the knottiest problems in InDesign print production. The FOLDRite Template Master plug-in for InDesign CS3 and CS4 can make them easily.

Acrobat.com Out of Beta; Free and Paid Web Conferencing

June 23 2009 • 10:21 AM

The web conferencing feature I wrote about earlier is out of beta and has free and paid options.

Interview with Adobe’s Michael Ninness

June 11 2009 • 12:00 PM

Adobe’s senior product manager for InDesign and InCopy was interviewed at length in the always-cool TechByter podcast. Check it out!

The Burns Effect: Using Anchored Objects in Nonintuitive Ways

June 4 2009 • 3:11 PM

Here’s a trick from Diane Burns that lets you make a text frame expand (or shrink) horizontally, depending on how much text you put in it.

Making a Vertical Line to the Side of a Paragraph

June 4 2009 • 12:28 AM

Need to draw a vertical bar along the left side of some text? Here are three techniques you should try!

Can I copy and paste images from Quark into ID?

May 28 2009 • 7:24 PM

Copy and pasting images might seem like a good idea, but there are other options to explore.

Jump to a Master Page

May 27 2009 • 11:22 AM

While it’s not obvious, you can use the Go to Page dialog to go directly to a master page.

InDesignSecrets Videocast #3: Power Zoom and Rotate Spread View

May 25 2009 • 4:49 PM

Two quiet and unassuming new features in CS4 really pack a wallop. Watch the videocast to see where to find them, when to use them, and what to watch out for.

Free Web Conferencing Built into InDesign CS4

May 24 2009 • 3:01 PM

Everybody loves “free”! InDesign CS4 offers a free web conferencing feature called “Share My Screen.”