Comments on: Fooling Around with InDesign

By: andrew Peppin

andrew Peppin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:25:50 +0000

…indesign drives me mad enough without some damn idiot coming along, i know much deeper tricks to get back at those, so to see how they like it….

By: Simon Kemp

Simon Kemp — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:57:51 +0000

Having been inspired by Fritz post and the numerous options posted in the comments I decided to have some fun with the dozen or so
Designers who are fortunate enough to have been upgraded to CS4 in our Studio.

I manage a Start-up script which adds a Menu item to other script. I figured I could use this to have a little fun.

On Start up, InDesign first displayed an alert asking if they wanted to “Purge the Network?” and were given a choice of Yes or No. Either button then displayed “The Entire Network has Now Been Deleted!”. A further click displayed the “Gotcha” message which led to very audible sighs of relief followed by groans and then rude words.

Or so was reported to me as I did not come into work until after most victims had suffered near heart faliure.

I was immediately taken into the boss’s office and given the biggest roasting of my 7 years employment for causing total chaos in the studio with the IT Director being called in and my boss made to look a total fool. After leaving the office, trembling and returned humbly to my desk, my boss, who had followed me out, called to me…

“Simon!, April Fool.”

The entire office erupted having all been in on the revenge and I have been red-faced for the remainder of the day.

I take heed of most of the advice offered on this excellent resource but next year…

I have booked the day off.

Simon Kemp

By: Darren Ketteringham

Darren Ketteringham — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:57:46 +0000

David,

Thank you! (I was looking under menus>view)

mwahahaha!

Now deployed (for evaluation purposes)

By: E Fitz Smith

E Fitz Smith — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:34:56 +0000

Evil & funny – in theory.

By: Beach

Beach — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:58:39 +0000

Love it, Fritz!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:35:47 +0000

@Darren: It’s in the Product Area: Panel Menus. Look for Pages: Rotate Spread View.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:40:35 +0000

My goodness, there’s a lot of evil minds in the InDesign community…and I love it!

By: Darren Ketteringham

Darren Ketteringham — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:59:34 +0000

Nye,

Of course, you can do that directly in InDesign CS4 now. In fact you could assign a keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Spacebar for LOLs) to >Rotate Spread>90° CCW)

Edit: actually, it looks like you can’t assign a shortcut to Rotate Spread unless I’m missing something. Damn and blast!!!!

By: Nye Hughes

Nye Hughes — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:29:50 +0000

On a Mac: System preferences>Displays>Rotate>180 degrees

By: Sean Larkin

Sean Larkin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:39:12 +0000

good stuff..

I’ve done: swapping the M and N keys on my boss’s keyboard;

removing all the keys from a coworkers keyboard except for an expletive or two;

apparently no one in my office knows about the Universal Access preferences in the Systems Preferences area, because I’ve applied one of those at a time on people, (such as the inverted colors, the zoom, black/white), and they can never figure out what the problem is….

small sticky note under the mouse..

i’m sure there’s more, but am not remembering them at the moment…