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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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. ...
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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 ...
