Comments on: Waah! I miss my PageMaker Pasteboard!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:29:22 +0000

Thanks Claudia. It’s a pretty rare need for me to tile that way so I guess it’s no biggie. Alternately maybe a keyboard shortcut can be assigned to the view, although i don’t see a way to do that for toolbar-specific elements.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:15:13 +0000

Aaron,
the only (slightly) more petite way I can think of is to dislodge the Application bar and move it out of the way. However, unlike other panels, the App bar won’t collapse to a demure little button. You may just have to deal with it

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:07:22 +0000

@Claudia, Thanks for that. I don’t use the Application bar so I didn’t even know that option existed. Is there a way to get the same feature on the control bar so I don’t eat up valuable screen real estate?

By: Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:05:02 +0000

Aaron, it isn’t a menu item: use the Arrange Document icon in the Application bar just under the menu bar; it’s the last little mystery icon on the right.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:26:58 +0000

@Bob, I don’t see that option in the Window/Arrange area. There’s only Cascade, Tile, or Consolidate (tabs in one window). Where is it?

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:21:36 +0000

@Aaron, use the two up view to see them vertically.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:57:10 +0000

I know I’m a little late coming to this article, but Claudia, I see no option in CS4 to ‘Tile Vertically’; there’s only ‘Tile’ and it arranges windows horizontally, much to my disappointment.

By: John Neumann

John Neumann — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:21:45 +0000

I migrated from Quark to InDesign about a year ago. In Quark, I kept a large page with many text boxes and logos I used daily so I could keep pasting out of it all day long. When I finally discovered Snippets for InDesign, I was very pleased with how organized my “messy space” could become. I wish something similar to Snippets was available for Illustrator.

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:59:01 +0000

Snippets are not appropriate in all circumstances. I’ve just done a job where I made considerable use of my “AggregatePasteboard” script (Gerald linked to it above).

In this case, my client had provided a Word document with (in the one case) content that had to be merged with existing content and (in the other case) corrections to content. I placed the Word document on the pasteboard and then worked through the document page by page either merging content or making corrections.

Each time I moved on to the next page, I ran the script to bring the place Word document along with me. Granted, I could have cut/paste, but it was much easier to run the script (which was but a couple of keystrokes away — Cmd-A to fire up my script that presents a list of recently run scripts: the one I wanted was almost always at top of the list, so all I then had to do was hit Return and there were the corrections for this page, right where I needed them.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:07:19 +0000

I totally agree–I love Snippets! But I was just trying to comfort someone who longed for the old PageMaker days. They’ll get over that