Questions tagged [adobe-indesign]
Questions about InDesign, Adobe's page layout application for professional print and electronic design. Ask anything related to designing projects in InDesign.
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How to create a document with alternating (left and right) master pages without working in spreads?
I am creating a large pricelist with multiple (15) master pages (for example, pages 1–10 have Master A and 10–20 have master B and so on). The end result will bee a saddle-stitched booklet that the ...
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Should I design business cards in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop?
Basically what the question says, what are the pro's and cons to using InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop for business cards?
Or is there something else you prefer to use?
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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 Indesign,...
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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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Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign - placed image different dimensions and resolution
The same problem over and over again - why do images placed in Id/Ai show different size than in PS?
I've made image in PS of about 2000x1500 pixels at 300 PPI.
Then made Ai document of 2500x1600 ...
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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 in-...
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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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How to hide half of a character in InDesign?
Let's say I have a movie with rating 2.5 and I should write this rating with specific star character which is ✪ (272A, http://jrgraphix.net/r/Unicode/2700-27BF). Is there some way I could use ...
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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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How to make 4 pages spread
I'm trying to setup a large presentation spread with 4 panels. They will be hung next to each other so it's important that I see all of them next to each other while I design the layout.
Facing pages ...
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Is there a way to align bullet point indent in InDesign paragraph styles?
I've come across this quite a few times now. Whilst working on a long document with several areas with bullet points, it's obviously more efficient to style the bullet points using Paragraph Styles. ...
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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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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:
8-...
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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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InDesign CS5: Placeholder for "number of pages in a document"?
Much as I loathe Microsquish's Word, it does allow you to insert into a header or footer the automated text "Page X of Y."
When using InDesign, it's easy to set up the "Page X" part on a master page....
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How to have full bleed between two facing pages Indesign
Aloha all,
I'm working in InDesign CS5.5 on a master plan document.
I want the final document to be 11x8.5 landscape with facing pages, spiral bound to allow document to lay flat with full bleed. I ...
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How do I print my book using Indesign cs6 and have the pages come out in the right order?
I am trying to print my 4" x 6" book from InDesign CS6 to my home printer. The book has about 100 pages, a perfect bound book with a few front pages and a table of contents.
I want to print the pages ...
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Why is my PDF size from my InDesign Export still large?
I'm doing class project that is a four-page, seven-image document with very little text. The project must be submitted as a PDF under 300 KB. However, when I export the document under the smallest ...
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How configure color in InDesign for a specific printer?
In my work recently was bought a Brother MFC-L8850CDW printer, CMYK tonels. But no matter what we do, when a document or a PDF made in InDesign is printed, the output colors on paper have a huge ...
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Long term client wants working files
As a independent graphic designer, I've developed and produced a yearly catalog of machine parts for a long term client beginning about 20 years ago! The catalog began at about 100 pages, and now is ...
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InDesign – Overprinting white at a Guangzhou printshop
I'm just about to send a CD-booklet 134mmX122mm (34pp)for print in a Guangzhou printshop – and the language barrier makes it a bit difficult to get all points across; I'm wondering about what I need ...
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InDesign CS5 tables: Can I automatically fit rows or columns to the size of content?
You know how Excel has the function "Autofit," where you select a whole row or a whole column and it resizes the entire thing to the height or depth of the largest content item? I want to do that in ...
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Illustrations showing up pixelated in Indesign despite huge resolution
Illustrations I create in Procreate show up pixelated at edges despite high resolution when I place them in Indesign.
I'm working on illustrating books for print. It's my first time working on a ...
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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 document.....
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Is Scribus a viable alternative to Quark or InDesign?
For someone who has worked in the professional publishing industry, I rely on InDesign and Photoshop for creating professional documents, even if they're as simple as a business card. Sometimes I don'...
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Master page display on top in InDesign?
I read this question regarding Fireworks layers, where it said that master pages have to be applied underneath other layers.
Is this true for InDesign as well? If not, how does one put the Master ...
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Client wants me to teach them InDesign
My client wants me to teach them how to do basic editing in InDesign.
This is after, against my better judgement, I had agreed to give them the source files of the documents I created in favor of ...
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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 dimensions : 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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Recommended Body Font Size for Print Magazine?
I am working on a print magazine in InDesign with a smaller than normal layout: 169mm x 239mm - which body font size would be recommended for this layout size? I have tried using 8pt for the 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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How do I turn a full color design, into a 1-color design?
I was asked to design a piece of junk-mail advertising. It has to be one color. Here are links of how it should look:
What I want to know is, how do you get your design like that?
It's like ...
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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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InDesign: "page bleed" with pictures spanning on two pages
lately I had a problem that I neved faced before now, I'll try to explain quickly: usually I setup documents in InDesign CS6 with side-by-side pages and work with pictures that run over two (side-by-...
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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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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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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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Weird grey boxes on PDF export and (huge) quality difference in Apple Preview and Adobe Acrobat
I've exported tens (if not hundreds) of PDFs with InDesign and I've never experienced this problem. It's pretty weird... The problem is that grey boxes appear around some objects. Next to that, the ...
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Color picker in InDesign
Is there a way to change the color picker to emulate illustrator or photoshop's color picker?
I can never figure out how to get to the color I want in InDesign. I always have to go to the other ...
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InDesign: How to create lines for form design?
Every once in awhile I make forms (applications and whatnot) in InDesign, and, as it often is with ID, there is more than one way to get it done.
I have a few techniques that I use, but I often float ...
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InDesign: how to get anchored objects to flow within text boxes
Writing my thesis and this drives me mad. I:
place images,
add captions to them,
..and anchor (see pink arrow) them to relevant text, see image:
(ignore here that the image falls off the page to ...
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Mass export all images as individual JPEGs in InDesign?
I am new to Indesign. I have a file that contains images with Photoshop clipping paths. I want to export all the clipped images in a folder. I have tried doing the "Copy Links To" and it successfully ...
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Why is my background white when exported as PDF in InDesign?
I have a problem with Adobe InDesign. When I change the page's background color (by modifying the Swatches>Paper color), and export it to PDF by going to File>Export, in InDesign - the outcome of that ...
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Need to convert Photoshop layers to InDesign layers
I'm using Photoshop CS6 to make a label and I need to convert all layers to InDesign CS4. I've never done this...is it possible?
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InDesign Data Merge and hiding missing data
I have an InDesign document which is filled from the data in a CSV using data mrege. The csv has columns for name, phone, email etc, but some of the data in the csv isn't filled in as it is not all ...
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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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InDesign: knockout / overprinting
I am preparing an A5 flyer for print using a printing company that my client requested.
The doc will be 5 colours as there is a Pantone spot colour in there too.
In the artwork checklist provided by ...
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Indesign: Find which pages apply certain masters
I couldn't find this on my own. Using InDesign CC, I have set up 17 masters and +100 pages on a document.
Hovering over a page will tell me which master it has applied to it. Ideally, the converse ...
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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 200x200px box in InDesign and when I save it as PDF the box appears larger.
I am a bit confused about ...
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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 ...
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Placing Items from Illustrator to Indesign
I'm trying to place an illustrator CC file with many artboards all into an Indesign CC file.
When I paste in the illustrations, the bounding boxes are giant.
When I place the file from file > Place, ...