I thought I'd post these here since I've re-uped my subscription to ID magazine:
January 3, 2008
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Sorting Styles
QuoteAll styles in their panels (Object, Paragraph, Character, Table,
and Cell) are usually listed in the order they are created --
from first to last. You can instead sort them alphabetically by
choosing Sort by Name in each of the styles panel menu. But
you can also drag styles from one position to another, letting
you customize the order in any way that makes sense to you.
-- Sandee Cohen
Senior Editor, InDesign Magazine
Hey Sparky,
Love the tips but how about making a new post each time? The old ones are gone every time you edit and swap it for the new one. I was interested in the last one but never got around to trying it out and now it is gone.
No prob Joe, I can post post any one you want. I also posted the web site to access all of these I'm posting. I'll do it again.
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Place EPS Images without the "White Background"
QuoteIf you have legacy vector files saved in the EPS format (this includes Illustrator, FreeHand, and CorelDraw files), they may show up with
a white background when you place them into InDesign. There are many ways to fix the problem, but here's my favorite:
Choose Show Import Options when you place an EPS file and check the Rasterize the PostScript option under Proxy Generation. Don't
panic, you're not actually rasterizing the vector information; you're only changing how the preview appears.
From that point on, you don't have to select Show Import Options; InDesign applies the setting to all new placed images.
I prefer this solution because other methods require changing the file from EPS to AI. That's not always possible for FreeHand or Corel
files, and it can take a while to process a large library of legacy documents. My method also works with any platform and doesn't
require changing any other ID preferences.
-- Sandee Cohen
Senior Editor, InDesign Magazine
Did you miss a tip? Check out past tips here:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/22813.html
Thanks Sparky. I don't always get around to these right away. ;D
January 11, 2008
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Leading like Quark?QuoteUnlike QuarkXPress, InDesign applies leading as a character attribute. This means that you can have a paragraph with one
line at a certain leading and another with a different leading. One way prevent mis-matched leading is to make sure you
select an entire paragraph before changing any leading.
If you'd prefer that InDesign's leading work more like QuarkXPress, go to Preferences > Type and set the Type Option
for Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs. Now when you change the leading in one line, the change applies to the entire paragraph.
Warning: Even after making the change in Preferences, it's still possible to create paragraphs with mis-matched leading: for
example, when you copy text with different leading into another paragraph. So if you copy and paste text, your next step should
be to select the entire paragraph and set the leading.
-- Sandee Cohen
Senior Editor, InDesign Magazine
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More Detailed Previews in Bridge
QuoteYou can preview InDesign documents in Bridge, but most of the text may be greeked; that is, appear only as gray lines. You can create a bigger preview, with more details, from within InDesign by going to Preferences > File Handling with no document open. Under the section for Saving InDesign Files, change the Preview Size to Extra Large 1024 x 1024. From that point on, each document you save will have a more detailed preview, and most text will be visible in Bridge.
-- Sandee Cohen
Senior Editor, InDesign Magazine
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January 24,2008
Dragging Effects from Object to Stroke to Fill
QuoteIt's easy to forget to target just the stroke or fill when you apply an effect such as a drop shadow to an InDesign frame. But instead of deleting the effect and then reapplying it to the correct attribute, you can drag the little "fx" label in the Effects panel from Object to Stroke or Fill.
If you want to add the effect from the stroke to the fill, hold the Opt/Alt key as you drag. You'll keep the effect on the first attribute and duplicate the effect onto the second attribute.
-- Sandee Cohen
Senior Editor, InDesign Magazine
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Working with Layers
QuoteHave you ever had a long list of layers in the Layers panel and wanted to turn off the visibility for all except one? Instead of clicking madly up and down the list, hold the Option/Alt key and click on the layer you want to see. That layer will remain visible while the others are turned off. The same technique can be used to lock all the layers except the one you want to work on.
-- Sandee Cohen
Senior Editor, InDesign Magazine
Author, InDesign CS3 Visual QuickStart Guide
February 28, 2008
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Moving Gradients between Illustrator and InDesign
QuoteYou may know that the Adobe Swatch Exchange format (ase) does not support transferring gradient swatches between InDesign and Illustrator. But does that mean that InDesign and Illustrator can't trade swatches? Not at all.
To get a gradient from Illustrator into InDesign, simply copy/paste or drag/drop an object that contains a gradient from Illustrator into InDesign. The gradient will automatically show up in the Swatches panel.
It's not quite as simple to get a gradient from InDesign into Illustrator. If you copy/paste or drag/drop an object from InDesign into Illustrator, the gradient will appear, but it won't be added to Illustrators Swatches panel. You'll need to ungroup and release a few clipping paths to coax the object to display the gradient in the Gradient panel.
You can add this unnamed gradient to the Swatches panel by first showing the options in the Gradient panel, then dragging the small gradient preview square from the Gradient panel into the Swatches panel. You now have a named gradient from InDesign in Illustrator's Swatches panel.
-- Sandee Cohen
Senior Editor, InDesign Magazine
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March 7, 2008
Select and Distribute Guides
QuoteGuides are objects, but they have a few special properties when it comes to selecting them. If guides are the only objects on a layer or document, hit Cmd/Ctrl-A to Select All the guides.
However, when there are any selectable objects (frames or rules) on the page or layer, Select All won't select the guides.
Once you have selected the horizontal or vertical guides for a page, you can use the Align panel's (Window > Object & Layout > Align) Distribute command to place the guides equally on a page.
-- Sandee Cohen Senior Editor, InDesign Magazine Author, InDesign CS3 Visual QuickStart Guide http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321503066/creativeprocom
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April 4, 2008
Fitting Text Frames to Content
QuoteThe command Fit Frame to Content (Object > Fitting...) automatically expands or contracts a text frame to fit the text within. But you can also use some nifty double-clicks to accomplish even more. Double-click the control handle on the bottom of the frame to force that side to expand or contract to hold the text. Double-click the control handle on the right side of the frame to force that side to expand or contract to hold the text. And finally, double-click the control handle on the bottom right corner of the frame to force both the bottom and right sides to expand or contract to hold the text.
-- Sandee Cohen, Senior Editor, InDesign Magazine, Author, InDesign CS3 Visual QuickStart Guide
Good stuff Sparky
This is great! Thanks!
just checked out all the tips
I just started using scripts, any tips on that sparky?
Forgive me if this seems elementary, but back in the day I had to do this manually and old habits die hard I guess. :old:
Had a customer send an Indy file with 3 different seps for Pantone 269. We use a custom spot 269 on our Nexpress for them so I started re-mapping them all to the custom name. Then found this in the ink manager:
1) In the Ink Manager highlight the sep you want to remap.
2) Click the Ink Alias drop down menu and select the sep you want to remap to.
3) Click OK.
4) Verify with Separations Preview.
The remapped colors still show up in the Swatches window but should disappear from the sep preview.
I love learning new tricks!
I agree, very handy. What I wish it would do, was map process colors to spots. Like say when a customer supplies a black only file in InDesign and wants it converted to a spot. It's an easy enough fix in Pitstop, but I'd rather just click a button before output. My Pressman here are a stickler for proper color names on the plates and play the game of actually printing black just to make a point. In addition, the customer more times than not, wants to see a color proof in the spot it's supposed to be printed in.
Pasted here, in light of these lobbing on people lately.
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TIP: Export Images from Word Files Did you know that Word's DOCX file format is a glorified ZIP file? Change the extension to ZIP, unzip it, and you'll find all of the document's original assets, including the images as individual files in a folder. More importantly, InDesign can access the original high-resolution images when you place a DOCX file, even if they're CMYK. The older DOC format converts all images to RGB PNG files.
- Bob Levine
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Quote from: frailer on November 04, 2010, 05:18:14 PMPasted here, in light of these lobbing on people lately.
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TIP: Export Images from Word Files Did you know that Word's DOCX file format is a glorified ZIP file? Change the extension to ZIP, unzip it, and you'll find all of the document's original assets, including the images as individual files in a folder. More importantly, InDesign can access the original high-resolution images when you place a DOCX file, even if they're CMYK. The older DOC format converts all images to RGB PNG files.
- Bob Levine
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Whoa.
Quote from: frailer on November 04, 2010, 05:18:14 PMPasted here, in light of these lobbing on people lately.
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TIP: Export Images from Word Files Did you know that Word's DOCX file format is a glorified ZIP file? Change the extension to ZIP, unzip it, and you'll find all of the document's original assets, including the images as individual files in a folder. More importantly, InDesign can access the original high-resolution images when you place a DOCX file, even if they're CMYK. The older DOC format converts all images to RGB PNG files.
- Bob Levine
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I'd be shocked to find high res CMYK files done by one of my Word customers. :laugh:
Great tip though.
I was under the assumption that most graphics in Word were just copy/pasted from a web browser. :laugh:
Where exactly are these original high-res images? I'm pretty sure they don't exist.
Well, maybe you'll trip over some medium resolution images in a docx file one day. Maybe they'll be good enough for you. :grin:
You're nothin' but a dreamer, Frailer.
Quote from: gnubler on November 04, 2010, 10:16:36 PMYou're nothin' but a dreamer, Frailer.
An often self-confessed one... :laugh:
Quote from: Joe on November 04, 2010, 05:34:36 PMQuote from: frailer on November 04, 2010, 05:18:14 PMPasted here, in light of these lobbing on people lately.
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TIP: Export Images from Word Files Did you know that Word's DOCX file format is a glorified ZIP file? Change the extension to ZIP, unzip it, and you'll find all of the document's original assets, including the images as individual files in a folder. More importantly, InDesign can access the original high-resolution images when you place a DOCX file, even if they're CMYK. The older DOC format converts all images to RGB PNG files.
- Bob Levine
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I'd be shocked to find high res CMYK files done by one of my Word customers. :laugh:
Great tip though.
scary, but I'm up to checking one out , just to see how wrong they can be.
but, then again, you never know.
Oh, that reminds me, I got a new copy of Office 2011 for Mac yesterday.
you jealous?
Spent 3 hours with a client designing a adbook yesterday. 45 minutes of that was explaining the 2x3 72dpi image they want to use on the cover is not a good idea. Sorry to say in order to advance to another topic not involving alchemy I told him I would "photoshop it". :death:
Quote from: david on November 05, 2010, 07:15:18 AMOh, that reminds me, I got a new copy of Office 2011 for Mac yesterday.
you jealous?
No. I leave Office where it belongs - on the PC. Word to PDF, that's all I do.
Quote from: gnubler on November 05, 2010, 08:28:42 AMQuote from: david on November 05, 2010, 07:15:18 AMOh, that reminds me, I got a new copy of Office 2011 for Mac yesterday.
you jealous?
No. I leave Office where it belongs - on the PC. Word to PDF, that's all I do.
yeah, but this new version will cook Bacon!
Which new studies have shown will make you smarter (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1240932/Bacon-eggs-help-pregnant-women-boost-babys-intelligence.html?ITO=1490#).
it was my idea, well not really, but I play one on TV.
Quote from: gnubler on November 05, 2010, 08:28:42 AMQuote from: david on November 05, 2010, 07:15:18 AMOh, that reminds me, I got a new copy of Office 2011 for Mac yesterday.
you jealous?
No. I leave Office where it belongs - on the PC. Word to PDF, that's all I do.
I have Word on Mac... 2010. It works, and it's one more app that keeps me off a PC. For that I am grateful.
You can have Word and bacon. I avoid both at all costs.
You're anti bacon? You really are an alien. Everything is better with bacon.
:offtopic:
Quote from: Farabomb on November 05, 2010, 09:12:11 AMYou really are an alien.
Second person to say that this week (the other one was in real life). You do realize Mars probably used to be colonized by our ancestors. I'm one of their crossovers.
:offtopic:
When exporting a PDF from Indesign CS5, you will not get a progress bar indicating if and when the PDF file is done.
But wait, there is one!
Go to the Window menu, drag down to Utilities, over to Background Tasks. This will pop up you missing progress bar for your export.
Enjoy!
NIce - if only it would allow the window to close while it did it's job (as previous) in the background.
yeah, but that would be a step forward
Ahh new feature at least to me.
You can now place a INDD file into another as if it was a PDF when building forms, I am imposing a Xmas card from my 2X per year client that runs OS9 Ragemaker. Opened just file in INDD where CS3 was a little of a fight. Sweet.
Quote from: david on November 11, 2010, 10:09:57 AMWhen exporting a PDF from Indesign CS5, you will not get a progress bar indicating if and when the PDF file is done.
But wait, there is one!
Go to the Window menu, drag down to Utilities, over to Background Tasks. This will pop up you missing progress bar for your export.
Enjoy!
Yeah, this was covered a little while back. Well hidden, hey! I have it at the bottom of my windows as part of my Workspace. Our know-all dezinger was sending 0KB files because she had no idea it was still Exporting. :laugh: Until I set her to right. :grin: I then received my quota of the single yearly compliment, which I languorously bathed in for the rest of the day. :sarcasm:
Quote from: Chilbear on November 11, 2010, 03:09:40 PMAhh new feature at least to me.
You can now place a INDD file into another as if it was a PDF when building forms, I am imposing a Xmas card from my 2X per year client that runs OS9 Ragemaker. Opened just file in INDD where CS3 was a little of a fight. Sweet.
and object layer visibility works with these placed indds - found this one the hard way with some toolbag who built their varnishes on a bunch of indd files then placed them in another.
Guess I'm the only one who visually looks at each and every PDF I generate? I couldn't imagine not at least looking at them before sending them off to wherever. Maybe it's a volume thing - on an average day I probably make fewer than 50 PDFs for various purposes, but I look at them all.
If you knew this lady, you wouldn't even ponder that. :rolleyes:
Quote from: gnubler on November 11, 2010, 05:17:27 PMGuess I'm the only one who visually looks at each and every PDF I generate? I couldn't imagine not at least looking at them before sending them off to wherever. Maybe it's a volume thing - on an average day I probably make fewer than 50 PDFs for various purposes, but I look at them all.
Yeah I don't understand why anyone wouldn't at least take a glance at the PDF. I have had fonts blow out and image framing in the past so I check every single PDF. Once when created, and then again if it is attached to an email right before sending.
Quote from: gnubler on November 11, 2010, 05:17:27 PMGuess I'm the only one who visually looks at each and every PDF I generate? I couldn't imagine not at least looking at them before sending them off to wherever. Maybe it's a volume thing - on an average day I probably make fewer than 50 PDFs for various purposes, but I look at them all.
You probably are. I know none of my customers do.
Quote from: gnubler on November 11, 2010, 05:17:27 PMGuess I'm the only one who visually looks at each and every PDF I generate?
I do. :shrug:
Quote from: ratintrap on November 11, 2010, 07:33:58 PMQuote from: gnubler on November 11, 2010, 05:17:27 PMGuess I'm the only one who visually looks at each and every PDF I generate?
I do. :shrug:
Yeah, but that's why you're here...a cut above. Just a fact. :shrug:
Quote from: boosted29 on November 11, 2010, 05:34:17 PMQuote from: gnubler on November 11, 2010, 05:17:27 PMGuess I'm the only one who visually looks at each and every PDF I generate? I couldn't imagine not at least looking at them before sending them off to wherever. Maybe it's a volume thing - on an average day I probably make fewer than 50 PDFs for various purposes, but I look at them all.
Yeah I don't understand why anyone wouldn't at least take a glance at the PDF. I have had fonts blow out and image framing in the past so I check every single PDF. Once when created, and then again if it is attached to an email right before sending.
Exactly. All of my PDF/Distiller presets have the "Launch Acrobat" (or whatever it is) once the PDF has been generated. I don't have use for a progress bar because when the file is open in front of my face and it looks good, that's enough indication. I can't recall one time where I have not looked at a PDF I made before sending it off elsewhere. It's like brewing beer for someone you want to make friends with, but not tasting it first yourself to make sure it's not absolute shit.
Quote from: frailer on November 11, 2010, 08:34:55 PMQuote from: ratintrap on November 11, 2010, 07:33:58 PMQuote from: gnubler on November 11, 2010, 05:17:27 PMGuess I'm the only one who visually looks at each and every PDF I generate?
I do. :shrug:
Yeah, but that's why you're here...a cut above. Just a fact. :shrug:
Thanks. :embarrassed:
anyone have a trick to create a grid that prints real quick?
not sure if illy would be better
Quote from: Tracy on January 18, 2011, 10:58:47 AManyone have a trick to create a grid that prints real quick?
not sure if illy would be better
A table with grid lines?
Quote from: Tracy on January 18, 2011, 10:58:47 AManyone have a trick to create a grid that prints real quick?
not sure if illy would be better
Step and Repeat a rule with a hairline (0p0.25) ?
:laugh: thanks :oops:
Quote from: digital@sig-1.com on January 18, 2011, 11:43:58 AMQuote from: Tracy on January 18, 2011, 10:58:47 AManyone have a trick to create a grid that prints real quick?
not sure if illy would be better
Step and Repeat a rule with a hairline (0p0.25) ?
thats what i did!
I use paragraph rules, two text frames stacked, and rotate the second frame 90 degrees.
Ill try that next time, the table trick wasn't so exact as I like, or i need work on it.
thanks!
Quote from: gnubler on January 18, 2011, 12:33:42 PMI use paragraph rules, two text frames stacked, and rotate the second frame 90 degrees.
is that +90 or a -90 rotate?
:laugh:
(didn't want you to be the last post, gnub... oops sorry, you weren't this time, nvm.)
Quote from: david on January 18, 2011, 01:42:21 PMis that +90 or a -90 rotate?
I dunno...do you lean left or right? CONFESS!
why yes
This one's a freebie-view. You don't have to be a lynda(dot)com subscriber to view.
Differences between CS4/CS5 (http://www.lynda.com/tutorial/59968) Don't feel obliged to place an Adobe rant here. Just have a look if you want. :cheesy:
I do love the multiple functions of the Selection Tool in CS5.
There is my two cents.
Yeah, there's a shedload of non-print features. If I was 25, I'd be making a bigger effort to keep up with SWIF file embedding etc etc... But I'm not. :old: Hoo well... :shrug:
I'm 35 and I don't care anymore. You must be really old. :hello:
Quote from: gnubler on March 02, 2011, 10:34:32 PMI'm 35 and I don't care anymore. You must be really old. :hello:
:whip: keeps you young, didn't you know?
What, whipping? :laugh:
Quote from: gnubler on March 03, 2011, 07:56:13 AMWhat, whipping? :laugh:
...'n other stuff. (Thinks: 'I've allowed myself to be drawn into off-topic irrelevancies; how does this happen?' :rolleyes: )
Quote from: Syphon on March 02, 2011, 07:41:02 PMI do love the multiple functions of the Selection Tool in CS5.
There is my two cents.
Yep, used it today. Should have been in a few versions back.
Just a tip that I'm sure most of you know.
Had to use this last week when I did a project Inluding a 9x12 folder, letterhead, business card and envelope.
With the page size tool you can setup 4 different page sizes for each and keep the whole project in one file then export the pdf's as needed.
I know it's pretty old news but it's one of the best things about the CS5 upgrade that I've worked with.
Funny how none of our clients have sent us jobs in this format though.
Funny how my customers think a business card size is 8.5 x 11.
Quote from: gnubler on May 03, 2012, 02:40:33 PMFunny how my customers think a business card size is 8.5 x 11.
I thought that was so the Publisher file created, jpeg placed art would look good at 3 1/2 x2
the multiple page sizes thing is a neat concept but seems to be a total disaster for actual production. I don't need to be figuring out what page what component is on, what's so hard about it being separate files? We document and process lots as separate and it would not make any sense whatsoever to have a pdf with multiple page sizes.
This came in my InDesign Tips email. If you have a doc that's actin' up a' ornery, this may give some clue as to history. (for those who may not know about it...)
Hold Cmd+'About InDesign' (from menu)
Quote from: frailer on July 19, 2012, 04:29:18 PMThis came in my InDesign Tips email. If you have a doc that's actin' up a' ornery, this may give some clue as to history. (for those who may not know about it...)
Hold Cmd+'About InDesign' (from menu)
Dang, that history goes all the way back to when the designer's parents had their first date.
I do like the 'Converted from QuarkXpress' though. :laugh: Adobe covers the base...
Got an email from quark last week
convert your pdfs to quark :laugh:
Oh I saw a job posting that had all the programs needed for the job
quark was listed but said it wasn't a deal breaker :laugh:
Quote from: Tracy on July 21, 2012, 05:52:19 PMGot an email from quark last week
convert your pdfs to quark :laugh:
Oh I saw a job posting that had all the programs needed for the job
quark was listed but said it wasn't a deal breaker :laugh:
I got that email too. All I could think of is "why would anyone do that to a perfectly good PDF"? :laugh:
Quote from: Tracy on July 21, 2012, 05:52:19 PMlisted but ... it wasn't a deal breaker :laugh:
Sometimes understatement says it louder.
:lmao:
BTW, you guys in NA pronounce it Quoork. We, however, pronounce it quaa-ark. It's the sound of an Aussie crow, flying overhead with its plaintive cry.
A much-loved (now deceased) variety show host here from the 70s, Graham Kennedy, was banned from the box for a period for uttering it, as a crow would, to express something else. Innocent times, I guess...
From webster's online:
Quark:
any of several elementary particles that are postulated to come in pairs (as in the up and down varieties) of similar mass with one member having a charge of +2⁄3 and the other a charge of −1⁄3 and are held to make up hadrons
Ahm just sayin.
Maybe Quark 10 will be renamed Hadrons 1.0
Quote from: frailer on July 21, 2012, 07:03:37 PMQuote from: Tracy on July 21, 2012, 05:52:19 PMlisted but ... it wasn't a deal breaker :laugh:
Sometimes understatement says it louder.
:lmao:
BTW, you guys in NA pronounce it Quoork. We, however, pronounce it quaa-ark. It's the sound of an Aussie crow, flying overhead with its plaintive cry.
A much-loved (now deceased) variety show host here from the 70s, Graham Kennedy, was banned from the box for a period for uttering it, as a crow would, to express something else. Innocent times, I guess...
Quark
sounds like a duck with a speech impediment
Quote from: pspdfppdfx on August 22, 2012, 02:41:43 PMMaybe Quark 10 will be renamed Hardons 1.0
fixed for ya mate - you're welcome
lol
Especially now that they've Re-re-revolutionized printing. Again.2
Quote from: pspdfppdfx on May 03, 2012, 07:28:41 AMJust a tip that I'm sure most of you know.
Had to use this last week when I did a project Inluding a 9x12 folder, letterhead, business card and envelope.
With the page size tool you can setup 4 different page sizes for each and keep the whole project in one file then export the pdf's as needed.
I know it's pretty old news but it's one of the best things about the CS5 upgrade that I've worked with.
I digress back to my own post here to cite a couple of more examples with this tip.
We have 2 Kamoris here, a 26 and a 30 inch. I set up a ctp template here with 2 different master page sizes and on certain jobs, we can easily bring in imposed PDF flats on the same file for each press. A big job may run on 2 different presses so it's very convenient. We don't use preps much except for bigger books.
Also, I get called upon to make up black and white ads for a clients magazine which could be 1/4 page, 1/2 page etc. like maybe 5 or so per issue. I just make them in 1 file and change the page size for each and whack out the PDFs as needed.
I really like this feature.
Funny how none of our clients have sent us jobs in this format though.
A couple of neat tricks in here:
5 Hidden Gems in Adobe InDesign CC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oZj6QfiS70#ws)
Quote from: pspdfppdfxhd on August 25, 2012, 02:04:31 PMQuote from: pspdfppdfx on May 03, 2012, 07:28:41 AMJust a tip that I'm sure most of you know.
Had to use this last week when I did a project Inluding a 9x12 folder, letterhead, business card and envelope.
With the page size tool you can setup 4 different page sizes for each and keep the whole project in one file then export the pdf's as needed.
I know it's pretty old news but it's one of the best things about the CS5 upgrade that I've worked with.
I digress back to my own post here to cite a couple of more examples with this tip.
We have 2 Kamoris here, a 26 and a 30 inch. I set up a ctp template here with 2 different master page sizes and on certain jobs, we can easily bring in imposed PDF flats on the same file for each press. A big job may run on 2 different presses so it's very convenient. We don't use preps much except for bigger books.
Also, I get called upon to make up black and white ads for a clients magazine which could be 1/4 page, 1/2 page etc. like maybe 5 or so per issue. I just make them in 1 file and change the page size for each and whack out the PDFs as needed.
I really like this feature.
Funny how none of our clients have sent us jobs in this format though.
That along with a nice word spacing section was swiped from Freehand, cause we all know you could never do that in Illustrator, would take sales from InDesign :)
Gawd, I despise companies that get a patent on Garamond (without bringing to court prior work).