Posts Tagged with ‘Anchored objects’

When it comes to applying transparency to live text, Quark gives you finer control than InDesign. But there ways of working around this limitation. You just have to think outside the box, er, frame. Whatever. Read the post.

How you can make a table of contents with thumbnail images (and avoid a horrible crashing bug)

Keith is feeling ignored by InDesign today. Discover four situations where InDesign, like a headstrong teenager, ignores your wishes.

Beware of this bug that can make anchored objects fail to print or output to PDF in CS5.

Have you ever tried to apply an effect to selected text and realized that you couldn’t? It is time to find a way around this limitation.

“Oh, why can’t InDesign behave more like a normal program, like Word?” she said, only semi-sarcastically. For example, how can you get your images to move with the text flow?

Here’s a trick from Diane Burns that lets you make a text frame expand (or shrink) horizontally, depending on how much text you put in it.

Need to draw a vertical bar along the left side of some text? Here are three techniques you should try!

Recently Jerry asked,
“I’m using InDesign to lay out a book in which I would like to emphasize sentences or parts of sentences throughout the book by extending the line length beyond the boundaries of the rest of the paragraph.
Any ideas on how this could be achieved?  I’d really appreciate your help.”

Three different methods come to [...]

How can you make a grid of images reflow automatically around a page when you add or remove one image? It’s easy with this trick.