Comments on: InDesignSecrets Podcast 042

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:36:00 +0000

Another vote to keep the colour palette! It’s handy if you have it open before you edit a colour node of a gradient in the gradient palette. I find it an easy way to create a custom gradient, while live-previewing the result.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:08:43 +0000

Max, you can turn on Optical Margin Alignment for a whole story and then turn it OFF (cs3-only feature) per paragraph. But you can't turn it on in a paragraph style. I think we talked about InCopy back in ">Episode 4. But I don't recall what we said about it! Anne-Marie has also written about it a couple of times (including a "why you want to use it") for InDesign Magazine. And, of course, Adobe has their InCopy site here.

By: Max Steinmetz

Max Steinmetz — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:03:32 +0000

Hello to Dave, Anne-Marie, and everyone else. This is my first time posting or asking a question so I hope I don’t sound too niave . Is there away to include the use of the optical margin alignment into paragraph styles? I love this feature now that I am aware of it (thanks for taking my blinders off), and I’d like to incorporate it more into my workflow (i’m in CS2 because of my work flow… on a PC… I work for very uniformed people – but i have CS3 at home).
-Max

PS. Could you do a podcast on 10 reasons to incorporate InCopy for Idoits, Dummies, and bosses with budget authority?

By: Tom Reed

Tom Reed — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:01:37 +0000

Anyone else think it might be a good idea to kill the Navigator and just absorb any lingering useful Navigator features into the Page palette (especially now since pages can display realistic thumbnails)? This idea came up during one of David’s presentations at the recent NYC ID conference.

Tom

By: Will A.

Will A. — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:01:23 +0000

I love the transform palette. I use it to help me scale and rotate objects. I think it is a wonderful feature that was carried over from Illustrator (which is the greatest vector program ever!). Maybe the most useless is the script label window, just because I don’t know what to do with it. Thanks for letting me comment the your show rocks!

By: Martin F

Martin F — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:25:14 +0000

Is there a distinction between ‘palettes I never need to use’, ‘palettes whose functionality can be better accessed elsewhere’ and ‘palettes that have unique features and are poorly implemented’. In the last category I would nominate the Hyperlink palette – it doesn’t behave as you expect it should and it does that badly.
But then I’m now a slightly guilty use of the Navigator palette – partly because my PowerBook trackpad and button never seem to behave properly with magnification etc/

By: vectorbabe

vectorbabe — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:38:56 +0000

I would agree that the Paragraph palette is redundant (not useless) except for the fact that the “Justify with last line aligned right” command is not available anywhere else.

By: Fred Goldman

Fred Goldman — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:01:17 +0000

In the flyout from the control pallete you can filp vertical and horizontal.

By: Barb Oakes

Barb Oakes — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:07:24 +0000

Well, will we be in for a discount without all these “useless” palettes?

By: José Ramos

José Ramos — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:30:50 +0000

I have to say that I agree 50% with you David on the transform palette being completely useless, except for this one VERY useful thing in it’s drop down menu… “Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical”.

Until these commands get placed somewhere else, I will be forced to have this palette open all the time.;)