InDesign Every Fortnight: Speedy Text Navigation
Continuing with my series of InDesign tips every two weeks, here’s a quick tip to help those of you working with threaded text. As always, Windows users need to substitute the CMD key with CTRL and if you’re on a U.S. Mac keyboard, substitute Alt with Option. Navigating Threaded Text Frames If you work on publications, then you probably have stories that begin on one page, and then continue on other pages elsewhere – sometimes separated by … Read entire article »
Interactive Wizardry Using only InDesign CS5
Check out this fantastic digital publication with a lot of interactivity (use your mouse when exploring the pages and you will find a lot of gems!) that was created only using InDesign CS5. It has been a popular piece on the Adobe site since it posted a few weeks ago and is really worth a look. You can even download the source files to examine exactly how it was done and learn from it. http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/customers/ … Read entire article »
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InDesign Every Fortnight: Five Essential ID Shortcuts
InDesign Fortnight proved quite popular, and although I can’t do an InDesign Tip every week (the other apps will feel all left out) what I’ve decided is to run another feature – InDesign Every Fortnight – and every two weeks there’ll be an ID tip here. To get you started, here are five essential shortcuts every InDesign user should know – they’re simple but effective! Use cmd-6 (ctrl-6 on Windows) to shift ‘focus’ to the first … Read entire article »
InDesign Fortnight 10: Libraries
Well, here we are at the end of this InDesign Fortnight feature – I hope you’ve gained some useful stuff over the last two weeks and if you’d like to see something like this again, let me know! We’re going to finish up with libraries, and this video should give you a good start – I hope you enjoy it. Enjoy this tip? Become a fan on Facebook. You can find out much more about InDesign, meet other … Read entire article »
InDesign Fortnight 9: Super-powered Styles
Here’s one that can be used if you’ve got any strictly repeating structure and one of the tricks that I love presenting – it’s so much formatting applied with just one click. I’m using a document containing some soccer fixtures – it has everything we need in the way of structure (which is essential here – any variation will cause this to break) and if you want to download a copy (in IDML format) via this … Read entire article »
