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A Pasteboard Primer

Sandee Cohen

Everything you need to know about InDesign’s pasteboard

Back in the days of traditional mechanical layout, art directors and designers would use any area on their desks outside the artboard to store little bits of paper containing type, images, and so on. When they ran out of space on the drawing table, these folks would use any free spot in their work area to store extra stuff they might need later on.

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Sandee Cohen
Sandee Cohen is a New York City-based instructor and corporate trainer in a wide variety of graphic programs, especially the Adobe products, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat. She has been an instructor for New School University, Cooper Union, Pratt, and School of Visual Arts. She is a frequent speaker for various events. She has also been a speaker for Seybold Seminars, Macworld Expo, and PhotoPlus conferences. She is the author of many versions of the Visual Quickstart Guides for InDesign.
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