Comments on: Little Things Mean A Lot in CS3

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:05:07 +0000

Dan, here’s a post with some information about scaling in CS3.

By: Bilgin

Bilgin — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:14:55 +0000

In indesign CS2 you could switch through open documents using the Ctrl+~ key (on Win anyway).
And Ctrl+Tab was invaluable when you want to choose the selection tool whilst editing.

It took me quite a while to get used to the new ESC shortcut to activate the selection tool. In CS2 it would have undo’ed your text changes.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:35:00 +0000

I might be missing something, but in CS2 I could lock the dimensions of an image and then enter a desired size. The image and graphic frame would scale together. Now in CS3, when I follow the same procedure, only the graphic frame scales. Not the content?

By: lik™

lik™ — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:33:05 +0000

At least on the german keyboard layout uses Command-< to switch thru open documents – OS X-wide, not only in InDesign.

I have a severe problem with CS3 (german): my font Minion Pro (OTF) which I use perfectly since years with OpenType capitals dows not appear in CS3 with the capitals AT ALL. InDesign just makes it small letters no matter what I do.

In CS2, same document: perfect.
CS3: small. Does anybody have an idea why or does anyone have the same problem?

Thanks for the ESC-the-textobject-tip, great (so we get rid of this annoying »v« letters in texts). I must add that the best way to do this IMHO is still how FreeHand does:

it simply get by itself when you klick out of a textbox so it changes to the black pointer. Doubleklicking the textbox again and you are in write-mode.

Keep up the great work here!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:48:28 +0000

Alan, are you sure? That doesn’t work on my machine. I use Command-` (the key next to the 1 on a US keyboard) or Command-Shift-` to move through open docs.

By: Alan G

Alan G — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:41:35 +0000

Speaking of little things, no-one’s mentioned the fact that control/command-tab now cycles through open documents, a la Photoshop. Am I the only person who finds this a welcome addition to the workflow?

By: Niall Funge

Niall Funge — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:44:52 +0000

Some great tips and comments here.

Eugene, hope you’re keeping well. Don’t know if you heard I left and Gar is now in charge. Glad to hear you are now using Indesign CS3. I have to agree with you about the usefulness of variable text.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:55:47 +0000

Vikki, sure, go ahead. Just be sure to include attribution and gushing praise for InDesignSecrets.com (and that you’re reprinting with permission).

By: Vikki Phillips

Vikki Phillips — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:11:29 +0000

Hi Anne-Marie. I work for a company called Mac&Beyond, I’m putting together our newsletter and was wondering it i could use some of your tips in our hints and tips section?
Thank you.

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:36:03 +0000

Doesn’t it say “Dimensions”?

When you relink to replace one graphic with a different source file, you can keep the image dimensions of the file that’s being replaced or you can display the incoming file in its actual dimensions.

Choose InDesign > Preferences > File Handling (Mac OS) or Edit > Preferences > File Handling (Windows).

Choose Relink Preserves Dimensions if you want images to appear at the same size as the images they’re replacing; deselect this option to have relinked images appear at their actual size.

On a more positive note, NOTES is an excellent tool. I love it, I can place markers in my text that I want to ask authors about, when each query is answered, I can find and insert and all that. Or if I remove text that I’m not sure about I can simply add the text to a note, it puts in a marker, then if I need to insert it I can convert the note back into text. This is excellent, as many a time, I would have boxes after boxes on the pasteboard and not sure where I got it from as text moves, but boxes don’t (unless you anchor them of course). NOTES RULE