Posts Tagged with ‘tatechuyoko’

In the last few days I’ve been playing around some the interactive features of InDesign. I created a few buttons with effects and text and because there’s no way to test these features within InDesign, I attempted to export a PDF with all of the appropriate settings: Acrobat 6 compatibility, Include Interactive Elements and Embed [...]

One of the more common effects people need to create is also one of the least obvious to accomplish: Centering text along the top of a circle or ellipse. Here’s a quick way to do it:

Make a circular frame with one of the Ellipse frame tools.
Select the frame with the Selection tool so you can [...]

I love it when I learn how to do something that can’t be done. Even if it’s a workaround — a kludge, a hack, or whatever you want to call it. I walked into Mike McHugh’s images session at The InDesign Conference today for 2 minutes and saw him present something I didn’t think was [...]

I’m at The InDesign Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, and trying hard to ignore the overwhelming sense of jetlag and exhaustion after canceled flights and other horrors made my trip here a little less pleasant than it might have been. But Martinho da Gloria picked me (and Sandee Cohen and Barry Anderson) up at the [...]

Even if you set the proxy icon (that reference point thing on the left side of the Control panel) to the center point, you still won’t be able to resize or scale an object from the center with the Selection tool — even if you hold down Command/Ctrl to scale the contents along with the [...]

Ray asked:

I originally responded to Ray with a “sorry, no.” But then a little script caught my eye! Marc Autret (a.k.a. Amar Cutter) posted a little script on his French site BlogNot! called SwapItems. I wonder if you can guess…

David (not me!) writes: I have created a 230-page document that has rows of photos and captions, and somewhere along the way without my noticing, the layout of all the content got shifted, such that all all left pages have their content too close to the center spine, and the same with the right page. Is there some global way to restore a larger margin near the spine and take away space from the outer edges of both right and left pages?

You have run into a sad fact of life: If you’re working with a facing pages document (one that has left and right, or verso and recto pages) and you add or remove an odd number of pages at the beginning or in the middle, all the subsequent pages get messed up. Curiously, it doesn’t always happen… it depends on your page layout, what’s touching margin guides, and so on. But when it does happen, it’s ugly!

Fortunately, there’s a script that can help…

I’ve gotten a few questions recently about typing page numbers in InDesign documents that have sections, or in documents that are part of a book. For example, let’s say you use the Section & Numbering Options dialog box (in the Pages panel menu) to set the first page of your document to start on page [...]

Abbe wrote: I like to use InDesign’s auto-numbering feature, but don’t see a way to decimal align the numbers when they reach double digits. When my numerals exceed 9, I stop using the feature and start setting tabs. Am I missing something?

You are missing something, but it’s very easy to see why — it’s not at all obvious how to do this. Here’s a sample of a numbered list…

Looking for help moving from QuarkXPress? Don’t hit F1.
It’s no secret that many InDesign users are QuarkXPress converts; more and more of them every day. There are plenty of books and training videos that make the transition as easy as possible but sadly, the one area that lacks much in the way of help is [...]