Questions about Adobe InDesign, the preeminent page layout application for professional print and electronic design.
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InDesign: How do I automatically style body text differently depending on the prior paragraph style?
in indesign, I have a paragraph style line number
and another style body text
when a paragraph of style body text is preceded by a paragraph of style line number, I would like to style that body ...
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2answers
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Leading error in Text box in InDesign, do you know of a way to fix it?
I am creating this text box in InDesign CS5 and on the last row of a paragraph I get a bigger leading for no reason. If I select the text and check the leading setting it is the same for all rows in ...
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1answer
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How to put 4 pages next to each other in Indesign
I'm trying to setup a large presentation spread with 4 panels. They will be hung next to each other so its important that I see all of them next to each other while i design the layout.
Facing pages ...
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What are the basic rules for designing a book (novel)? [closed]
I promised my friend I'd design a book for him he's releasing for free and I could use the help of you guys.
I'm going to use the latest InDesign. The book should be in .pdf format and is intended ...
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Design solutions/ideas/examples/sugestions for good looking cropped images in a product booklet
I am doing this booklet for some chairs and I have a problem.
The problem is that I have small images, but the booklet is intended for A4 print.
I will post 2 images to explain my problem.
What I ...
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2answers
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How can I prevent Export/Printing of an InDesign document if placeholders are still in place?
Pretty straightforward, as in the title.
Our University paper's staff sometimes doesn't have the manpower to even Search for Lorem Ipsums, and often times other basic omissions occur, like updating ...
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1answer
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Why doesn't Size/Resolution in InDesign match the PDF?
I am working in InDesign and I need to create a PDF file.
The problem is that if I have a 200px x 200px box in InDesign when I save it as PDF the box appears larger...
I am a bit confused about ...
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1answer
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Is there a standard “magazine” size for printing?
I'm thinking of printing a informational project in magazine size, however I have a hard time finding what the standard size for magazines is?
There is no default size for this in InDesign and from ...
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Haltone pattern within InDesign [closed]
One of QuarkXpress features I used a lot in the mid-nineties was the ability to apply an halftone pattern to any bitmap import. It was unbelievably effective when printing black&white graffiti ...
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1answer
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Apply different master page
I'm formatting a simple book (novel) document. I have basically two master pages, one is for basic pages (a large text field and a page number) and the other is for the first page of a chapter, with ...
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Is it possible to split the view in InDesign?
I want to look at two parts of an InDesign document simultaneously. Is it possible to "split" the view in one window so that I can see the two parts together in one window?
edit: In CS5 at least, I ...
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1answer
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Is there an InDesign to XPS workflow other than printing to an XPS “printer”?
The book I'm designing was requested originally in PDF format, and that's how it's set up in InDesign. So far, so good, and it's about 90% complete at this point. We've already jumped through a fair ...
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2answers
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Indesign RGB color space
Is there a way to set the colorspace to sRGB in indesign?
I remember doing this in indesign cs3 years ago and i can't recall how to do this for cs5.
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1answer
592 views
Use data merge of indesign using console or through an API
I am trying to evaluate Adobe Indesign for my needs. In this regards, I asked
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6164612/generate-a-catalog-for-print-and-web
I looked at the tutorial posted in the ...
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1answer
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Indesign exports A4 document as US Letter .pdfs
When exporting a document created in InDesign which has A4 selected under File > Document Setup > Page Size into a .pdf by using File > Export > Adobe PDF (Print) format and use the default 'High ...
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1answer
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How to apply text effect in InDesign but not have it effect text stroke?
I need to apply an inner shadow effect to some text in InDesign, which works fine. But I also need to apply a stroke to the text, but the effect is also being applied to the stroke ( unlike in ...
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How do I spec a character with no keyboard shortcut?
I am working on a corporate standards book for a client. Client works with two design agencies, my office and Other Agency. Both agencies play nicely together.
In one particular file, Other Agency ...
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2answers
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Setting object style in InDesign
I'm trying to somehow set InDesign object style for images that I add into text frame directly so they flow along with text when I edit content. My document is of technical nature so it has a single ...
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2answers
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2answers
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InDesign drag/drop [closed]
So I created an annual report for my company with InDesign CS4. My assistant designer/editor also has InDesign CS4 on her machine. I create an InDesign package and save it on the network drive so she ...
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2answers
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InDesign: Threaded text with different master pages
I have two master pages, "2-col Master" and "4-col Master". I start out with a 4-col page and insert text. InDesign will insert the remaining pages (each with 4-cols) until the text is complete. How ...
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1answer
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InDesign: base an item's width off another item?
I am taking a bunch of text snippets and creating boxes that are .2 inches wider than the text snippet to use as a background for it. I have hundreds of these to make. I can't think of a way to ...
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1answer
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Typing single quotes in InDesign
Every time I type character ' InDesign converts it to ›; why? How do I fix it?
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Restart indesign ruler at every page
In indesign 5, I have created several A4 pages after another. However the ruler stretches over the three pages, see picture below, and I would rather see them "restarting" at every page, i.e. ever ...
