InDesignSecrets Podcast 062
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- News: 5.01 Update, New CS3 books, Keyboard Shortcuts Plug-in, London UK User Group
- Great source for freebies: Adobe Exchange
- Hot Button Posts of the Week: Custom Page Sizes; Transform Individually
- Which letter/number isn’t used? Quizzler Winner and Answer
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Miter Join/Miter Limit
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Links mentioned in the Podcast:
InDesign 5.01 Update: Mac or Windows, 5.01 ReadMe PDF
New books: Real World InDesign CS3; InDesign CS3 Visual QuickStart Guide; Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production; InDesign CS3 Video Training Book; A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML; Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3
Free Keyboard Shortcuts Plug-in from DTP Tools
London, UK InDesign User Group
Adobe Exchange Beta
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I thought that the miter limit number meant that the number would be x times the stroke width before the join became a bevel. So a value of 3 would mean the point length would be 3 times the stroke width.
Yes, that’s it. I’m very impressed you knew that off the top of your head!
From the Real World book:
“The value you enter in the Miter Limit field sets the distance, as
a multiple of the stroke weight, that you’ll allow the corner to extend before InDesign applies a beveled join to the corner. If, for example, you enter “2” in the Miter Limit field, InDesign will
flatten corners when the stroke weight of the corner is equal to or
greater than two times the weight of the stroke.”
The default value is 4, I believe, meaning you’ll get some fairly spiky corners before it gets to a-bevelin’.
If there’s one thing I hate it’s seeing things that I don’t know about. As soon as I saw the miter limit, I think I first came across it in January 2002 when I was at college. I asked the lecturer what it was for. He didn’t know. It left me frustrated. I just had to know what it was and what it did. So I looked it up and read it and I rarely forget what I read.
And in Illustrator, it’s evident that there is a “x” beside the box where you input the figure. So that was my first clue. I just have to know how things work and what they do.
Thanks for posting that Anne-Marie, and thanks for pointing it out Eugene. Another good example of “It’s in the book, but not necessarily always in my head.”
I love your podcast! Do you have plans to make it a video podcast someday. You guys rock! Every time you explain something about InDesign, it sticks in my head unlike the other guys. Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Mr. Aman, yes it does stick in your head, the internet wasn’t around for me in 2002, when I learnt about this, books on the subject were scarce, and access to the internet wasn’t great at all, let alone the content on the internet, InDesign wasn’t a forerunner in the market in 2002.
I just wish I could construct my posts as elegantly as others, I’m not hostile and don’t want to be construed as that either. I come across as needy, but i’m not, I’m just enthusiastic….