Whilst InDesign is generally pretty stable I do sometimes come across people who have an issue with InDesign crashing repeatedly. There are a few things you can do to stop this, other than simply reinstalling InDesign. RESTART THE MACHINE OK it sounds kind of obvious, but one thing you could do it restart the computer […]
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Some time back I was training an advanced InDesign course, and one of trainees had come across a problem and asked me for advice. The problem she had come across was, whenever she imported Excel documents into InDesign, the dates switched formats. What was happening was that the date was formatted within Excel as an […]
If you’re the kind of person who can’t stand unbalanced text, you might recall the days when it took a fair bit of manual adjustment to make text columns line up evenly. Fortunately InDesign CC 2014 (actually it’s been in here since CS5) has a nice balance columns checkbox which is found in the Text […]
There are a lot of InDesign tips that can save you time, make you more performant and improve the quality of the content you produce. It’s hard to pick out just five, but I think these are probably a good starting point for most people: TIP 1: SET DEFAULT COLOUR SWATCHES AND PARAGRAPH STYLES IN […]
Recently I blogged about exporting to html5 from InDesign using the in5 plugin. Looking through the various options that this plug-in gave me was an output option to something called the Baker framework. This was not something I had come across before, so I thought I would look it up and see what it was all about. The […]
Having done a lot of HTML5 work in recent years, I was looking for a quick way to export my information from various applications that I use all the time. Today I am going to show you how to export from InDesign to HTML5. Exporting to html is easy, unfortunately the current export command is […]
InDesign has always been an excellent application for generating forms but, until now, adding the form fields themselves had to be done in Acrobat Professional, a process that could be time consuming, especially if you were creating complex forms. InDesign CS6 now includes built-in form field support, making form creation much easier and faster. In […]