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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InDesign Spread Pagination
I have created an 8 page brochure with InDesign and exported a PDF for my print guy. At the moment the pages are exported as:
1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8
But for print he'd like them formatted like this:
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suggestions for ways to gain practical experience?
If this is not considered an appropriate question for this list (I couldn't quite tell from the FAQ), feel free to close it, but I could really use some specific, concrete advice. I passed the ACE ...
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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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Indesign: how to style a paragraph so that it will occupy no vertical space in the document flow (similar to “float” in css)
I am laying out a book that has line numbers on every fifth line. I want it to look like this:
line # text line text line text line text line text
text line text line text line text ...
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Why are imported PDFs blurry in InDesign?
I'm creating a magazine in Indesign and have pdf ads that I imported and placed all throughout the magazine. The pdf ads are crisp and clear in their original format, but when I place them in ...
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Indesign and syntax highlighting
I have a poster which I have made, it is basically lots of java code and looks like a wall of text.
I want to add syntax highlighting to this so that the code is more readable. I know that I can ...
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Insert a variable on many pages in Adobe InDesign to fill in when printing PDF
I have a "Name" field on many worksheet pages which I want automatically filled in with a particular student's name when printing. I know in InDesign I can just create a master page that those ...
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What are the best practices and techniques to fix rags?
What would be the best practices to fix the rags on a left aligned text for print.
Besides breaking lines and hyphenations, should you use tracking, and if so how much.
Also, how would you judged a ...
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Best way to send layouts with editable text to writers/editors who don't have design software
Here's a common design workflow problem, probably most relevant to in-house designers, but also to agencies who have a lot of non-design writing or research staff, or freelancers who work with ...
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Is there a way in Adobe Creative Suite to “share palettes/swatches” across programs?
I use a mixture of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to produce the vast amount of printed media I design at my current position and I find myself faced with copy/pasting color values from one ...
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What are the different applications in Adobe Creative Suite for?
So, I have never really been into design beyond a few wireframes and paper-pen sketches and have now now bought David Kadavy's book, Design for Hackers and am getting into design a little bit.
I am ...
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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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Adobe Illustrator vs Adobe Indesign for brochures
You may know me (not that I am worth knowing) from my first question. I am a noob in web design, graphic desgin, font theroy, color theory, guess all of the mixes that are crucial. My expertise ...
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How to create a new glyph = letter + ogonek in InDesign
I've got a font, which doesn't have polish diacritic chars which I need. I'm trying to construct them, by merging two glyphs - a letter and ogonek or acute accent, which are provided by my font.
I ...
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Right-aligned tabbing not working as expected in InDesign
Working on creating a table of contents. It's right aligned, and since the page numbers go into double digits, I wanted to have a tab in between the page number and the page title so I know that the ...
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Highlighting text in Adobe InDesign
I want to have inline code snippets in my InDesign document. Similar to how StackExchange does it, like this. So the gray background is perfect. Basically I just want to highlight certain text. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Adobe Indesign - Table of Contents with Data Merge content
I have about 100+ rows of content in a .csv and I'm bringing it into my Indesign template. That's working fine but I can't figure out how to integrate it with the Table of Contents.
Has anybody ...
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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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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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How to put a 'gap' between pages in a spread in Indesign
(sort of step 2 for this question but also technically a new question in its own right)
I have 4 pages side by side in a spread and i would like to put a small gap between them, to simulate how they ...
