Questions about Adobe InDesign, the preeminent page layout application for professional print and electronic design.
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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: 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 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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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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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 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 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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Script for InDesign that checks for halftone spot colors?
Thanks to the help of various people here, I've just about nailed this script for InDesign that I'm working on. There's only one other bit that, while not 100% necessary, I would love to be able to ...
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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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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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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 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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Indesign constantly checks cross-references documents
When I create cross-references to other documents, Indesign gets very slow accessing to disk all the time (I can see the Windows icon) unless I open all related documents.
Is there a way 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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Indesign running-header character style doesnt work if characters are the number in a list
I have a list [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and in the paragraph style is set that the number [1, 2, 3, 4...] is of character style A. Now i set a variable for the character style A and it doesn't show up the ...
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Adobe InDesign 6 not printing booklets to edges of paper, InDesign 5.5 did
I printed booklets for my students in InDesign 5.5. Worked perfect, on US Letter paper I was able to get 2 worksheets per side. I'd cut them down the middle and have these great packets of ...
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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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Adobe InDesign CS6: PDF output from InDesign has edging issues?
Is there any reason why this image that this is occuring in images outputted from InDesign this layer is a Pasted Graphic from Illustrator.
I'm unsure if it is a PDF issue or it will occur in print. ...
