InDesign Photo of the Week
When you spend as much time around InDesign as we do, sometimes the funniest things catch your attention. For example, during the recent InDesign conference in Auckland, a small cohort from the show (including Sandee Cohen and myself) wandered over to the nearby Media Design School for a tour. They have a great set up there, and we met lots of friendly people. (I kept hoping to find at least one unfriendly person in New Zealand, just to prove that there is one, but I failed.)
But when I wandered into one of their empty seminar rooms, I had to pull out my iphone for a quick snapshot. They obviously taught InDesign in this room, and had been on the subject of paragraph and character styles when the teacher had left this on the classroom whiteboard:
I think I will now forever think of the “plus” symbol in the Styles panel as the “naughty” sign. Something naughty this way lurks…
If you capture any fun InDesign-related images (screen captures of InDesign gone terribly wrong, shots of documents too-obviously created with InDesign, or anything funny that you think we should see), feel free to send them to us at info at indesignsecrets.com.
By the way, as you can probably tell, I love phrases such as “…of the week.” Legal disclaimer: I have no intention of posting one of these each week! Holy mackerel, no. ;)
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Not a photo here but a mail from a reader of my site in 2002. He received an InDesign file made in Germany, and the German designers named the master pages (cover, toc, news, tv pages,…) with german words. When he opened the InDesign file in his French version of the application, he wrote to me to share his surprise “why master pages’ names were not translated in French”.
Style Sheets? Hmmm… isn’t that product Q???
Now that is what I’d call “Naughty” with or without the “plus” (+) ;)
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a small COHORT from the show…had to look that up, i’ve never seen it used that way. talk about erudite! i’m impressed!
@Lauren: Hm. Cohort? I think that’s the word I was looking for. See onelook definition.
This is the problem with the institutional mindset nowadays.
We shouldn’t be labeling the text “naughty” just because it is exhibiting a tendency toward independence and non-conformity with some arbitrary “style” imposed on it against its own wishes. It’s not naughty; it just has some character of its own! (Maybe it even has some paragraph of its own!)
Now, does anybody know where I can get some good mixed overrides around here?