Adobe InDesign is the preeminent page layout application for professional design work. It contains features for both print and electronic (ePub, interactive documents, digital magazine) publication.
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'Printers page' PDF layout in InDesign?
I'm doing the layout (first time) for a friends charity magazine, last minute as the usual girl quit just before it was due, so panic time there.
I'd saved the individual pages (as I'd been asked) as ...
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Using PhotoShop to create a magazine
My question:
Can I create a magazine exclusively using PhotoShop?
My understanding:
It should simply be a case of using CMYK and an adequately high resolution.
Other software:
InDesign is pretty ...
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When exporting PDF file from Indesgn, Why colors messed with one another?
I made a 10 pages file in In-Design, RGB space designed for web. Created some masters. After exporting (smallest file size as well as others too) to pdf the result gives me different tint of color on ...
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InDesign and advert size (PDFs)
I've learnt the basics of InDesign and created a 10-page magazine with some adverts in (stored as PDFs). My earlier question here was from a purely educational standpoint; not an actual printed ...
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How can I export only text with a distinctive character style from InDesign to a new document?
I had a catalog layout with 200 captions. They all have the same distinctive character style. I am searching for a solution to export only these caption texts with the distinct character style out of ...
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InDesign grep rule that applies to everything then stops if it reaches a certain character?
InDesign GREP rules can get a bit mind-bending. Suppose you want a paragraph style with a GREP style rule that applies a character style to everything except text after a certain character. Something ...
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ID CS6: Can I set an exact height for a cell style?
I am working in a table. I am creating cell styles for various kinds of cells.
I want to create what is essentially a spacer cell (unless there's some way to create padding-above like in CSS :) ) ...
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Components of a site that might cause imitation concerns
I'm new to the web design and web comic fields.
I'm a huge fan of The Oatmeal, and thought his tile layout was a good way to share the most amount of comics for given real estate.
So, following the ...
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Brochures font size
Hello This is may first question here. I was working with small projects. I have problem with the Brochures (Tri-fold).
At the Back Cover the content are only programme 2 fold and raffle entry 1 fold ...
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insert the same image on every other page
I am creating a booklet and want to include a small image on every odd page. To do that, use master pages, right? But here's the catch - I want to rotate and move the image just a little as the pages ...
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Acrobat X Custom Action to Save PDF as JPG (not export all images)
tl;dr Can I use Acrobat X Pro to batch process hundreds of multipage pdfs to Jpgs
This question is very similar to what I am after but I am wondering if there is a way to do it in Acrobat X Pro. I ...
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Unpixelated Screenshot images
I have some work to showcase: images which are screenshots of work which are online. However when arranging these screenshot images in Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, they all appear to be ...
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Vectors or 300 dpi TIFFs for printing?
I have worked with CreateSpace before and used AI vector images on the cover and interior PDF of a book, but the images all printed pixelated. After complaining, CreateSpace told me to only use 300 ...
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Is there a way to have instant spell check in InDesign?
Much like most word processors have spell check as I type, is there a way to have this done in InDesign?
I'm constantly forgetting to run the spell check before sending off proofs and I'm getting a ...
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How to create custom page number in a TOC in indesign cs6?
My pages in Indesign are somehow complex that they look like:
A3 - 66
where:
A: chapter letter
3: sub-chapter number (restarts it's numbering everytime the chapter letter changes)
66: page ...
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InDesign: How to restore text-frame position/size to be managed by the master page instead of the actual page?
I have some designer that moved slightly a text-frame and in order to be managed again by the master page we need to remove the page and create a new one inserting the content in it.
Is there any ...
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Add a background-color to a paragraph-style in inDesign
I am currently creating a book layout with inline code and code-blocks.
For those code parts, i would like to add a background-color. It should handle code similar to the way it is displayed on ...
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How to setup a duplex document printed both sides with page numbers in InDesign
I'm about to create an A4 business brochure magazine style of 8 pages and i was wondering how to setup my document.
I have two options. 1 would be creating an A4 document, facing pages with proper ...
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Set PDF “Initial View” in InDesign CS6?
When exporting a document from InDesign CS6 to PDF, is it possible to set the "initial view" of the PDF, so that the PDF opens up in "two up" (side-by-side) format by default?
I can do this in ...
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How do I get InDesign to import XML into table cells?
First, let me preface by saying i've read through James Maivald's Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML, but i'm still really confused.
I have an XML document that looks like:
<foo>
<bar>
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Small caps not appearing on Windows computer
I've made a document on inDesign CS5 on OSX containing a section typeset in Palatino small caps. These appear fine when viewing the exported PDF on a Mac however on a Windows computer some of the ...
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The way it's supposed to work with books in a team in InDesign is not coherent, then how to properly work?
Imagine this scenario:
User A opens the book
User B opens the book and make important changes
User B saves the book
User A closes the indesign and it's asked if wants to save the changes to the book
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Indesign auto column width size for table based on the data containing?
I have a lot of table that designers have to slighty adjust just to fit the content into the table. This takes a large amount of time in our process and I would like to ask if there is anyway to skip ...
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How to lock the position and size of a text-frame in InDesign CS6?
How to lock the position and size of a text-frame in InDesign CS6?
I would like to lock those properties in each page in Indesign. Sometimes the designers get wrong and drag and drop the text frame ...
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Can I set DPI per image/page as opposed to document-wide in InDesign?
I am making a book with some of my photography. I have not been blessed with the best camera in the world so my images range between 1100px squared to 2000px squared. The print size per image will be ...
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In a flowing layout design in InDesign how I might full fill the spaces left at the end of the pages?
As you can see at the left, there is a lot of white space at the bottom of the page 1. My boss doesn't like it and forces designers to put "enters" (new lines) between the paragraphs in order to ...
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Indesign Print booklet error
I am using CS6, when doing print booklet 64page doc, it come up with error that i have differing page sizes. I have checked the document page sizes are all the same. Please help
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Best practice for InDesign document translation?
What are the best practice for translating documents in InDesign?
I guess there is some mechanism for import-export XML like Illustrator Variables to translate without using installed Indesign?
I'm ...
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Adobe Indesign master pages not aligning properly when loaded or synchronized
I have document DA with master page MB that is based on master page MA. In another document DB I load the master pages from DA. The master page MB is shifted down, the items shifted down are the ones ...
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I have a inline image aligned to the right in a master with one column. How to keep the image to the right with 2 cols master_
I have a master with only one column (A) and the picture it-s into the text frame. Now I need 2 columns but how to make the logo to stay on the right?
We found 2 solutions but are not very good:
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InDesign: I need a repeating image on every page, and paragraph styles with a variable aren't working
I have a lot of sub-chapters and each sub-chapter needs to have on each page an image. I was thinking of putting the image on the first page of the sub-chapter and set to paragraph style A. Then ...
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How to still keep the automatic In Design page shuffling while starting a new section on the left or right side?
I have a document in indesign and I would need to start a section on the left side, but indesign only allows me to do this if shuffling is manual. This means that if I need to add a page at the ...
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How to exclude a shift-tab character from a nested character style?
I have a paragraph that looks like this:
NN TitleA TitleB [alt-tab character to push to the right] [an image]
Then in the paragraph style I set the first word, which is always a number to ...
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How do I move the color picker in a straight line?
Sometimes, when I'm trying to design something using a monochromatic color scheme, I want to make sure I get exact shades and tints of a specific color, but I don't know how I can do that because I ...
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How can I give a name to an image in Corel with Eps format?
I want to export my images from Corel into InDesign. So I export it with a name that I want, but the problem is that when I export my image, Corel automatically adds a number sequence (eg. ...-1, ...
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“Paste Into” Tool Not Working
I can't figure out how to use the "paste into" tool, specifically to create what the image displays from this article:
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ID renumbering TOC
I need to create a master table of contents that incorporates
two 100-page documents. Each document has its own table of contents. So, the
master TOC would list both of the TOCs of the two documents ...
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InDesign: Is there any way to lock all the styles (paragraph and character) and master pages and keep all of them in a master document only?
I'm setting up a workflow for working in a book with various chapters and I don't want the designers to change the styles in one document in the book. I just want to be able to change the styles in a ...
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Is there a way to record an action that sets guides to a 3 or 5 grid for a variable doc size?
I'm looking to record an action that will set guides in a 3x3, 5x5, 3x5 and 5x3 grid on my canvas in equal partitions, but I want it to be able to work for any document size.
I'm interested in doing ...
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Resetting InDesign's “Document modified outside of book” warning
This feels more like a Super User question than Graphic Design, but I figure someone here will be more likely to know the answer.
Using InDesign 5, I have a "book" collection that I use to keep a ...
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How to make to tables in InDesign to flow horizontally (in other words be side-by-side and not one after the other like normally happens)?
How to make to tables in InDesign to flow horizontally (in other words be side-by-side and not one after the other like normally happens)?
I would need to put 2 tables like this:
|----| |----|
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How to present logo concepts to a client using Indesign
I'm an amateur graphic designer, however I do know the importance of presentation in any product or service.
I was wondering if there are any preset Indesign templates or rules of thumb on how to ...
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How to make Indesign tables of contents interactive, with clickable jump links in the exported PDF
I couldn't find any simple resource saying how to make Adobe Indesign tables of contents interactive, so that each item in the electronic version of the exported PDF is a live hyperlink / cross ...
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Inserting a new column in InDesign changes the paragraph style by adding a + to the name. Why?
When I add a new column to a table in InDesign CS6 and I click into a new created cell it has a + in the style name. When I hover over the style it shows: "Overrides(alt+click to clear): (align: flush ...
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Text Style in InDesign and Adobe Illustrator?
There is something similar to Microsft Word Text Styles, in Adobe InDesign and Illustrator?
For example I choose: "Style 1", for many paragraphs, and then I can change the font of all of them at ...
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InDesign: Resetting character style after end of paragraph
Is there a way (a setting or a shortcut) in InDesign to reset a character style to None after the end of a paragraph?
Paragraph styles have the option for Next Style, but this does not apply to ...
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How to keep manageable pages after turning off page shuffle?
I've seen this tutorial http://philippaberrysmith.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/how-to-get-page-numbering-to-start-where-you-want-it-in-indesign-cs5/ but after turning off the page shuffle option when I ...
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Is possible to share a text variable across documents of a book in indesign CS6?
I have a text variable for paragraph style A. The book is like this: "ch1_00", "ch1_01", "ch1_02".
"ch1_00" contains the chapter cover, and I want to put here the text variable based on the words ...
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Weird color distortion when using an effect on top of an image in InDesign
In Adobe InDesign, I have placed a pink image that I brought in from Photoshop. The below screenshot is how the pink looks like in Mac Preview (I'm on Mountain Lion).
I wanted to add some lines to ...
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How do I make non-printable template instructions in InDesign?
I'm trying to create a business card template for my work and I wanted to add text to the file giving instructions on how to use the template.
How do I create text that won't print once the file is ...
