When using the Colour Panel in InDesign or Illustrator you have control over each component colour channel when working in RGB or CMYK enabling you to mix specific hues of reds, purples, oranges etc. Sometimes you’ll arrive at the colour you’re after but just need to go deeper or paler. If this has you fiddling […]
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Today I want to look at a very simple, yet very powerful, way of making global formatting changes to InDesign documents. Need to change every key-line in a 64 page document to 0.25pt thickness? Easy! Want to change the inset spacing of all text boxes to zero? No problem! Read on to find out how… […]
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If you’ve printed documents from InDesign or exported them to PDF you’ve, no-doubt, come across the Marks and Bleed settings in the print/export dialogue box. Here we configure the amount of document bleed and which of the various marks to include. There is one often overlooked setting here which can cause problems in certain print […]
If you have to generate PDF files for Print you may occasionally get a request from a print supplier asking to ‘remove the fonts’ from your PDF. If this has you heading back to your InDesign or Illustrator file to Outline all the text then stay tuned, all is not lost! Firstly, let’s look at […]
InDesign has a lot of paragraph settings that you can use, and here are some of the ones that I really like and store in my stylesheets… 1}} If you are dealing with more than one language within your document, do not forget that InDesign can set a particular dictionary to specific paragraphs via your […]
When laying out your page, occasionally you may come across the need to make sure another box (image or text) needs to be placed near a specific piece of text, and that it tracks that text. This means that when the text moves, the other box moves with it. Now, you can just draw your […]
One incredibly useful, but often overlooked, feature in InDesign is the ability to place one InDesign document into another as an Image Link. Go to File>Place… and you’ll see in the file browser that InDesign files can be selected indicating they can be imported/placed within a layout. This is a real advantage when placing artwork […]
Today I want to look at a simple method for optimising content styling in InDesign. This technique combines Paragraph and Object Styles so I will assume some familiarity – if you’ve used Paragraph Styles before then Object Styles are pretty easy to pick up. InDesign includes a set of panels aimed at storing the formatting […]
Whilst doing some research the other day I came across a thread on a related issue on the Adobe forums. The poster of the problem happened to mention ‘pasting’ some Illustrator artwork into InDesign and was advised that you should always ‘place’ into InDesign. In fact there are cases where it’s perfectly acceptable to copy […]