Posts Tagged with ‘tatechuyoko’

Mike encounters a strange Story Editor symbol from the Far East, uncovers its identity in a snippet of IDML, and emerges slightly jealous of Illustrator users. And craving sushi.

I know we don’t usually talk about actual physical products on this blog — we tend toward the immaterial, software world. But I’m sitting here in my office, after having scanned a few hundred pages of stuff I don’t want cluttering on my desk anymore… and I just have to give a shout out about [...]

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• New Zealand ID Conference Recap
• Interview: Mike McHugh describes his Camera Raw in InDesign tip
• “Pangram” Quizzler Winner–and Answer!
• New in the InDesignSecrets store: “Sphinx” t-shirts!
• Getting a Grip on GREP
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fixed Column Width
  

An old student of mine named Mark e-mailed me yesterday, worried that the 2-color newsletter he just sent off to his commercial printer as a PDF would have the same problem as the prior issue he sent them: The 100% black elements, including all the text, had separated out to a mix of the four process colors.

Mark guessed that the cause was that he “had somehow changed the Preference setting for ‘Appearance of Black:’”

Lee wrote:

I’ve wished for a “hide selection” feature in InDesign for years, but so far, no go. There is, however, a reasonable alternative: New Window. We’ve talked about New Window in passing during podcasts and in a few posts, but I want to emphasize the wonderful power of this feature. New Window (which you can find by choosing Window > Arrange > New Window) lets you get a new view on the same document…

Gatefold spreads contain more than two adjoining pages and are commonly used for large brochures or ad designs. To create a gatefold spread in InDesign, select a page (single-sided document), or a spread (facing pages document) by clicking their respective thumbnails in the Pages panel. Then choose Allow Selected Spread To Shuffle from the Pages [...]

Tim Cole is not just good, he’s good for you, too. Case in point: the Senior InDesign evangelist
wrote up a wonderful little transparency trick on his Backchannel blog, showing how you can put an image inside editable text, or even make text fully transparent while an effect (such as a drop shadow) remains visible…

Every so often I just have to put my foot down and say “no.” No, you can’t do this, or no, you can’t do that. One question we often hear is, “can I assign an F-key keyboard shortcut to a paragraph or character style.” The answer is no, no, no. The only keys you can [...]

Acrobat 9 was announced on June 2, as David pointed out in a posting earlier this month. Since Acrobat 9 is due to be out “by July 2008,” according to the Adobe press release, I wanted to do some postings about some Acrobat 9 features that will be of particular interest to InDesign users. The [...]

Have you ever opened an InDesign document and wondered, geez, why am I seeing all this highlighting?

Okay, maybe not THAT much highlighting! But even a single unexpected instance can be disconcerting if you don’t know the cause, as Alex e-mailed