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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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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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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Restart indesign ruler at every page
In indesign 5, I have created several A4 pages after another. However the ruler stretches over the three pages, see picture below, and I would rather see them "restarting" at every page, i.e. ever ...
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Can I create a PNG from InDesign?
I usually have to export my InDesign file into an eps, then convert it to PNG in illustrator. Does anyone know an easier way?
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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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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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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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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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Is there a way to tell InDesign not to break words in a Paragraph? (hyphenation)
I am pasting this text into a text box in InDesign, I have a Paragraph Style set for that box and I am using "Justify with last line aligned left" (you can see in the screenshot, the red circles)
The ...
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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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What is the purpose of typesetting a Word document with InDesign?
We have a bunch of Word documents that people create using a template that matches our business's look-and-feel. When we're done writing the content, we send it to a designer than the typeset the ...
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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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Is there a standard “magazine” size for printing?
I'm thinking of printing a informational project in magazine size, however I have a hard time finding what the standard size for magazines is?
There is no default size for this in InDesign and from ...
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Mirrored spreads page reshuffling: objects partially outside pages don't update positions
Working on a file with a mirror layout where the inside margins are bigger than the outside margins. When creating a new page in the middle of the file or changing page positions, objects are ...
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Heading numbering without threading?
We're beginning our work with InDesign to create technical documents (reports for customers) due to its XML/import capabilities. Our document has a pretty traditional structure: Title page, TOC, ...
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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 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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Exporting to High Quality Print InDesign - preserving all fonts/text - Create Outlines?
I'm just about to export a brochure for printing in InDesign (CS4)
What is the correct way to export the document so that the fonts used throughout will display properly at the printers.
I have used ...
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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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Make InDesign not re-hyphenate an already hyphenated word
On a publication that I work on I run into a problem where hyphenated words are hyphenated again at the end of a line. (Here's an example: self-sufficent would end up self-suffi-cent) Is there a way ...
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How do I spec a character with no keyboard shortcut?
I am working on a corporate standards book for a client. Client works with two design agencies, my office and Other Agency. Both agencies play nicely together.
In one particular file, Other Agency ...
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Issues with Pantone Colours in InDesign
I have the branding guidelines in PDF format (so viewing on screen) for an organisation with the specific Pantone Colours displayed alongside their code.
Now when I add swatches for these Pantone ...
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Create a GREP style that finds paragraphs that starts with 2 possible words, then styles the entire paragraph
I have a QA style article where a question is posed, then answered.
Community News: How are you today?
Tom: I'm doing great!
CN: I'm doing well today. Thanks for asking.
I'd like to apply a grep ...
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Making ogoneks with GREP style
I followed this solution to make Polish ogoneks in InDesign through GREP style BUT every time I use it, the negative tracking is also be applied to the space or next character which immediately ...
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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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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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How do I make non-printable template instructions in InDesign?
I'm trying to create a business card template for my work and I wanted to add text to the file giving instructions on how to use the template.
How do I create text that won't print once the file is ...
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Adobe Indesign CS6 - Make Text Frame fit text contents automatically
Is it possible to have a text frame auto-expand to fit the text in Indesign CS6?
So when I continue to add text the frame containing it automatically grows in size and doesn't cut the text and show ...
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Setting object style in InDesign
I'm trying to somehow set InDesign object style for images that I add into text frame directly so they flow along with text when I edit content. My document is of technical nature so it has a single ...
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Is there an InDesign to XPS workflow other than printing to an XPS “printer”?
The book I'm designing was requested originally in PDF format, and that's how it's set up in InDesign. So far, so good, and it's about 90% complete at this point. We've already jumped through a fair ...
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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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Software like InDesign or QuarkXPress to create instructional documents
I'm creating a booklet on teaching programming through examples and exercises. What's the best software for writing the pages? It'll be code examples, exercise questions and some diagrams.
I'm new ...
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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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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 ...
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Data merge “at once”
I get the feeling that I do not really want Data merge, but something similar... I want to merge a .csv file into my InDesign document, have it formatted in a similar way as if I was using Data merge, ...
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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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What Adobe CS5 program should be used to make A4 multi-page brochure?
I want to know what Adobe CS5 program to use to make A4 multi-page brochure?
I have the full master suite so I wanted to know what is best to use for this?
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Why do some letters look odd at 100% but not 200%?
I'm looking at a document both in InDesign and, after exporting to PDF, in Acrobat, and the strangest thing is happening to my font; some letters are looking different than they should when shown at ...
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InDesign: Export all placed files into one folder
I've got an InDesign doc ready for to send over to someone. Along with it I've got an images folder full of placed images that the InDesign file references.
While I was making my document lots of ...
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How to merge two images, so that one will take the shape of the other?
Got two images, one of an old sheet of paper with jagged edges. The other is a photo of beach. How can I merge them together, so that the beach image will take the shape of the other picture, i.e. ...
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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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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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How to select an InDesign vector path point when a text wrap contour is in the way?
How can I use the InDesign direct selection tool or pen tool on a path that has a text wrap over it, without just hitting the text wrap contour?
So to recap: in InDesign, when you apply a text wrap ...
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Sharing InDesign Links between Mac & Windows
In our marketing department we have a mix of Windows & Mac computers all running Adobe CS5.5.
The problem we're having is that the Windows users will create an InDesign document with links to ...
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Adobe Indesign automatic deletion of overflow text
Indesign CS5.5 (v7.5.2)
Is there an automated method to simply remove all overset text in a text frame?
I don't want it hidden by a smaller frame. I want it gone.
I spend so much time simply ...
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Using InDesign CS6, how can I simultaneously edit A4 and A5 versions of a poster?
I'm on Adobe Creative Cloud, so I have the latest InDesign, and I'm attempting to design a poster for my choir's next concert. Traditionally, I've done this in Photoshop, in two separate files, ...
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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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Designing forms for printing in InDesign
I have to make a lot of forms in InDesign. Not interactive forms, just forms that need to be printed. It's really a pain making all the checkboxes, radio buttons, lines and text fields and ensuring ...
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InDesign: Resetting character style after end of paragraph
Is there a way (a setting or a shortcut) in InDesign to reset a character style to None after the end of a paragraph?
Paragraph styles have the option for Next Style, but this does not apply to ...
