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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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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'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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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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InDesign and transparency flatteners location
I have InDesign CS5 on Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard, and created a new transparency flattener style called test1 as a preset.
I'm interested to know, where is my custom preset stored on Mac OS X; ...
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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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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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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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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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Strange annoying 1px line when I save a PDF from InDesign
I am creating a PDF file from InDesign and sometimes(90% of the times) when I export my work from InDesign into a PDF file a strange annoying 1px line appears(view immage) at the edge of the ...
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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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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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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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InDesign CS6: How should I structure pages of lists?
I'm having several different parts of a publication I'm doing where I'm presenting essentially a list of compound data. Examples are contact specifications (data points are [Name,Phone,Email]), recent ...
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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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Folder to put fonts for Illustrator CS6 without having to install fonts in system
I remember there used to be a folder I could just put fonts in and they would work for Adobe InDesign. I thought it was a folder called fonts in the same directory the InDesign document was. I tried ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Indesign adding white strokes to stroked text when exporting to pdf
I am working on a very basic InDesign project (my first one), and have one trouble that is progressively driving me crazy.
I need some bold text, and so have added a 0.25pt black stroke to my 10pt ...
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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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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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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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Encyclopaedia-style InDesign running headers, where pages have many, one or zero headings
So, you can have a heading running on each page that varies automatically based on the most recent heading (or, occurrence of any other paragraph style) by putting text with InDesign text variables ...
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Endnotes in InDesign: Closest thing to a pain-free, flexible workflow?
It's an age-old complaint: up to and including CS6, InDesign supports footnotes, but not endnotes. Documents, books, reports etc aren't going to stop needing endnotes because Adobe don't support them. ...
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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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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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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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InDesign CS4 or CS5: How do I export tiles to a PDF?
Let's say I have a document which is 30 inches by 30 inches. My printer is 11x17. I need to print tiles.
Let's also say that the printer is attached to a computer which doesn't have InDesign, but ...
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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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Printing from InDesign has correct margins, but not from Acrobat using exported PDF
I have half-US Letter (8.5" x 5.5") documents I print out in booklet form from Adobe InDesign CS5.5 on a Brother 9970CDW color laser. Works great.
Problem is InDesign doesn't allow you to print ...
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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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How do I create a billboard that is larger than Indesign CS5's maximum document size?
I am making a billboard with this dimentions : 2.19m x 6.09m
However, indesign's maximum document size is 5486.4 mm (5.48m)
How do I increase this document size or is the another way to handle this ...
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I can't group all elements (NONE LOCKED) when adapting A4 to A3 in Indesign CS 6
I'm resizing and have changed the doc setup to be A3 from A4. I then selected all elements (none locked) and grouped them.
Then, when attempting to hold shift and drag them to fill the page, two ...
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Creating a book using InDesign [new to this!]
I'm learning about InDesign (using versions CS5.5 and CS6 - depending on which computer I use), and whilst I am competent at using it at a basic level - creating INDDs, creating joboption files for ...
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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 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 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 ...
