New Australian InDesign Blog and Tutorials
By Cari Jansen | August 27, 2008
Sydney’s Neil Oliver has started his very own InDesign blog called “Creative Mentor “, for all things to do with InDesign.
Neil writes short tips & tricks and records tutorial movies as well. Great to see you online Neil!
Web Reference: Creative Mentor (2008, Neil Oliver)
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How do I create fractions in InDesign?
By Cari Jansen | August 25, 2008
InDesign out-of-the-box, does not contain a ‘Make Fraction” command, like other applications such as QuarkXPress have, so if you’re a Quark converter (Welcome a-board by the way!!!), how do you go abouts creating fractions in InDesign?
So how can setting fractions be made easier? Well, there are a number of options available. Let me take you through five different methods…
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How to. Create a Button that links to First Page of my PDF
By Cari Jansen | August 24, 2008
Digitip 074 -Adobe Acrobat 9
Modified: 24 August 9:40pm (slight rewrite, addition Leonard’s comment)
Q: I received an email last week, that in a nutshell phrased the following question: How do I create a button on all the pages of a PDF document that, when clicked, links back to the first page of my PDF?
A good enough incentive to finally write up another digitip. Due to time constraints no screenshots this time, but instead a step-by-step list of instructions that will provide the answer to this question.
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CMYK, RGB, HSB, LAB, Pantone…
By Cari Jansen | July 24, 2008
Thank you very much to those of you who attended this afternoon’s “colour alphabet soup” Adobe Seminar :)
Please find below the links to the web-references I provided on the start slides as well as some additional book references and a link to the Adobe Swatch Exchange file that contains lots of “clean” CMYK colours. Feel free to distribute and share with your friends Read more »
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Grokking Grep for Geeks Only?
By Cari Jansen | July 23, 2008
Kris Coppieters, with the “work-in-progress” Grep Grokker GREP Tutor, has added another contribution for those of use out there wanting to learn Grep. Bedankt daarvoor Kris!
Web-reference: GrepTutor (2008, Rorohiko)
Web-reference: Grep-it-and-sort-it (2008, Cari Jansen)
Web-reference: Grep examples, downloadable InDesign file, with some of the GREP samples I used during last year’s GREP session at the InDesign Conference in Melbourne (2008, Cari Jansen)
Topics: GREP, adobe, indesign | 1 Comment »
Australia’s 4th InDesign User Group Chapter in Perth
By Cari Jansen | July 21, 2008
Yep, you heard it first. Tuesday, 30th September is the official launch meeting for the 4th InDesign User Group Chapter in Australia.
As the Chapter Representative, I’m really happy to make this announcement. User Group Membership is Free and we’ll organise four User Group meetings a year, with the first meeting held on 30 September 2008, with Mike McHugh, Creative Systems Engineer for Adobe Systems as the guest speaker for the evening.
Mike knows InDesign inside out, and will show you some of the hottest tips & tricks. It’s a session not to be missed.
User Group Membership is Free, but do register for the Perth meeting, as seats are limited, and the number of registered members is growing as I type this…
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Stray points removal in Illustrator and InDesign
By Cari Jansen | July 14, 2008
Adobe Illustrator has had a Stray Anchor Points remover for some time. In Illustrator CS3, you can remove stray points by selecting Object > Path > Clean up… The Clean Up command allows for deletion of Stray Points, Empty Text Paths and Unpainted Objects. InDesign on the other hand doesn’t contain such a command.
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10.5.4 + 5.0.3 = fixedalot
By Cari Jansen | July 1, 2008
“Mac OSX 10.5.4″ + “Adobe InDesign 5.0.3″ = “fixedalot” . Over the past days Apple’s released 10.5.4 and Adobe’s just released the InDesign 5.0.3 update for Mac and Windows. The 5.0.3 updater incorporates all amendments made in earlier updates.
According to the 5.0.3_Update_ReadMe.pdf, the Navigation Services issues (Mac OS X Leopard) that cause unexpected quits in InDesign are fixed with Apple’s 10.5.4 update: “likelihood that InDesign CS3 will crash when running Leopard 10.5.4″ is “significantly reduced”. The “cmd+h” shortcut issue, that should Hide InDesign is not resolved, but a work-around is provided. Workarounds are also listed for those who continue to experience Nav Services issues after 10.5.4 install.
The ReadMe file further lists the technical problems that have been resolved as part of the 5.0.3 update and earlier updates. If you’re only interested in reviewing resolved issues between 5.0.2 and 5.0.3 update, than look for the following issues in the ReadMe file:
- Documents [1731306] [1695888] [1700420] [1643336] [1659185]
- Export Graphics [1724891] [1732168] [1661862] [1662873] [1638336]
- Import Graphics [1644041] [1651695] [1650786, 1644867]
- Import Text [1749116]
- Layout [1614266] [1811170] [1623701]
- Performance [1747301] [1650771]
- Text [1732224] [1657162] [1708140] [1767073] [1740534] [1722038] [1717899] [1650869] [1640798] [1651698] [1700938]
- UI [1666168]
- Developers (debug update) [1810456] [1733459] [1745419] [1679664] [1700335] [1642976] [1567330]
Web-reference: InDesign 5.0.3 update - for Mac OS (2008, Adobe Systems)
Web-reference: InDesign 5.0.3 update - for Windows (2008, Adobe Systems)
Web-reference: 5.0.3_Update_ReadMe.pdf (2008, Adobe Systems)
Web-reference: About 10.5.4 Update (2008, Apple Inc.)
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Typefi AutoFit short video added
By Cari Jansen | July 1, 2008
As promised at last week’s Melbourne InDesign UserGroup, I’ve added a new short Typefi AutoFit video to the Typefi Systems web-page from which you can download this free InDesign plug-in. The video covers soft-bottom frames and bulding of multiple relationships as part of a more complex design element.
Web-reference: Typefi AutoFit (2008, Typefi Systems)
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Nostalgia
By Cari Jansen | June 28, 2008
John Nack back in February posted this digitized VHS video from the Adobe archives to YouTube. Maybe I’m getting old or I’m in the mood for some nostalgia … but I’d love to see more of these old VHS movies converted and shared. This one is a promotional video delivered by John Warnock introducing Adobe Illustrator.
Did I see that right? A total of five menus and about a dozen tools?
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