This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 37
People use InDesign to set type in all directions: left to right, right to left, top-to-bottom, and even inside-to-outside (that’s used mostly for transcendental texts, of course). But however you set text and graphics, there’s always more to learn. Here’s some links that can help:
- If you speak Hebrew or are living in Israel, here’s a great Hebrew-language InDesign site you should know about. Feel free to post a link to your favorite non-English language InDesign site below.
- Many InDesign Magazine articles have been republished at creativepro.com and are available to anyone. There’s some excellent stuff here:
- How-To: Solve Layout Dilemmas with Tables
- Transparency: No Longer the Forbidden Fruit
- How-to: Take Object Styles Where They’ve Never Gone Before
- InDesign Tutorial: Preflight Files in CS4
- Whip up a few tasty treats using InDesign?s text wrap features
- Ten tips for creating an InDesign file that prints perfectly
- Analyze Images in InDesign Documents
- Making eBooks from InDesign, Part 1
- Making eBooks from InDesign, Part 2
- ?If you missed the comment on the forums about it, check out this interesting font manager, built as a panel inside InDesign CS5.
- Want to know more about the new (and great) MultiFindChange add-on? Check out this little movie made by IDS contributor Cari Jansen.
- This was an amusing tweet image by contributor Mike Rankin about eBooks and InDesign.
- Do you use Acrobat Portfolios? If not, why not? Here are some free customized portfolio templates you can use.
- If you have ever wanted to learn more about resolution, you should watch this great videocast by the excellent Mike McHugh.
- If you’re using CS5, or you’re thinking about upgrading, check out this short “5 hidden gems” movie by Brian Wood.
- Do you use WordPress? Here’s a new program (in beta) for moving wordpress content to InDesign!
- How is InDesign Magazine made? Listen to editor-in-chief Terri Stone talk to Deke McClelland and Colleen Wheeler on the Martini Hour.
- Print is far from dead! Learn more about print and printing press problems.
Happy InDesigning!
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(Although I’ve been mentioned only once — perhaps I should advertise my Dutchness more :) )
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Interesting tip on the Anchored Object for Page Geometery! But it does involve anchoring objects. Which can be time consuming.
I recently stumbled on something that seems to work – use Object States in CS5 to have many different locations for images on a page. This question was recently asked on the Adobe Forums. The user wanted to know if size and location of an image could be used in Object Styles – sadly size and location is a big problem. They had say a 1/3 page advert, 1/4 page, 1/2 page and full page, and they changed each issue.
One interesting way to achieve this was to create Object States for each type of advert, then it was just a matter of one click.
The only thing you have to do is make sure that when you File>Export>PDF (print) to Include Interactive Elements (Appearance only).
I’ll have to read through the rest of these articles later… some interesting stuff.
Thanks
Aha! So that’s what Anastasiy has been working one!
Very nice.
Great post – I always think that I’ve got enough knowledge in InDesign but then something like this shows me what I’m missing out on! Thanks for taking the time to share!
My favourite non-English language InDesign site is of course my own blog: http://www.indesign-blog.de It’s in German.
Shameless plug ;)
Thank you very much for mentioning my Hebrew site for InDesign Middle Eastern Version.
Everyone is most welcome to join, to read and download my tips and some tutorials, it’s all FREE.
Best regards to all,
Shlomit Heymann