Comments on: Stockholm Day 2

By: vectorbabe

vectorbabe — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:04:26 +0000

Wow, whipped it up right in front of us!

Yes, I think we all have to agree that ANY tip we come up with, Branislav has already done!

By: Richard Rönnbäck

Richard Rönnbäck — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:55:38 +0000

While I did credit Branislav for the transparency trick I couldn’t credit him for the second, as I whipped it up just moments before showing it!

My original plan was to show how items stored in a library can do the same (of course) but knowing that snippets are just a description of objects and their properties it occurred to me that a snippet should work the same way as library objects do, and the minute before I got up on stage I tried it and thought “that’s even better”

I should have figured out that Branislav would already done it

// Richard

By: Branislav Milic

Branislav Milic — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:15:36 +0000

Guys, the most important thing is not who pulls the plug first on a tip, the most important question is : when will this #!@&”‘# XPress die !

Dave, again you stunned me with the way you see things in ID.

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:50:23 +0000

It just came to me that you can use a variation of Branislav’s trick to put a vertically-oriented graduated fill “into” some text without having to worry about the fill wanting to extend the whole height of the text frame.

I just did this for a headline (in this case, I’m assuming that the text is on a white background):

1. Define a paragraph style that calls for the text to be set in the Registration Color. Give it a Rule Below that is colored Paper and is (say) 24 points set at -20 offset (so it extends 4 points below the baseline.

2. Create a rectangle that is 24 points high and the width of your columns. Give it the graduated fill, oriented at either 90 or 270 degrees as needed.

3. Paste the rectangle into the first insertion point of the paragraph and set its anchored object options so that it exactly sits over the paragraph rule.

4. And, the coup de grace: choose the transparency setting Lighten for the rectangle.

5. Finally, make an object style for the rectangle that includes the fill, transparency and anchored object settings, and make a paragraph style for the head.

Dave

By: Gerd Kalesse

Gerd Kalesse — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:24:01 +0000

Hi Sandee
How about telling us all how Branislav’s text image tip works.
I would really appreciate that. Thanx.
Gerd
P.S. To whoever sorts out problems with this website. It seems difficult for submitted comments to actually register!!!

By: Gerd Kalesse

Gerd Kalesse — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:20:06 +0000

Sandee
how about telling those who do not know “Branislav’s editable image-text tip” works how it is done. I sure could use it.
Thanx a lot

Gerd

By: vectorbabe

vectorbabe — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:02:23 +0000

My DEAR BRANISLAV!!!

I apologize completely!

While Richard gave you credit for his first tip, I don’t believe he credited you for the Paste Remembers Layers with Snippets tip.

Your brilliance amazes me, even when I don’t know it is you doing the brilliance!

By: Susan Thompson

Susan Thompson — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:33:39 +0000

I remember Branislav showing this trick in London last year.

By: Mikael Lundén

Mikael Lundén — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:37:04 +0000

I thought that tip about doin snippets and remember layers was originally Branislavs tip actually…
Mikael, attendee at the Indesign CS2-conference