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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Please help me grid this A4 landscape poster
I'm working on this simple A4 landscape poster basically saying "adobe.com/" (newline) "indesign" with big letters in the middle of the page, and a small lipsum footer at the bottom. But I'm having a ...
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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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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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Making a form in InDesign with boxes to enter your responses
I need to make a form in InDesign for an application. The entries need to made so that each letter/number goes into an individual box. Here's an example I just found on the web:
http://...
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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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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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Deform image along path
I've got an image I'd like to use as the border on a DVD label, which I'm creating in InDesign. The effect would be like the "Type on a path", but with an image instead - preferrably repeated until it ...
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Joining transparent objects without overlap in InDesign
I'd like to join a transparent line and a transparent filled circle together without creating an overlap region with a different transparency. How can I do this in InDesign? None of the path or ...
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Display rectangle size automatically
Is it possible to create a diagram in one of the adobe products, whereby next to each shape there is a label displaying the size of the shape. for example if i draw a 100x500 box it displays this ...
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InDesign CS5: How to create a contact sheet automatically?
I know the instructions exist. I have tried them repeatedly and they simply don't make sense. Can someone explain the steps a little better? (Reading down the list of comments, I'm not the only ...
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Adjust Vertical Position of a Single Character in InDesign? [closed]
I have a paragraph with a rather large line height (38pt), and I need the very last character to be positioned lower than the other characters. Is there a good way to do this without resorting to ...
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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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What are the basic rules for designing a book (novel)? [closed]
I promised my friend I'd design a book for him he's releasing for free and I could use the help of you guys.
I'm going to use the latest InDesign. The book should be in .pdf format and is intended ...
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Design solutions/ideas/examples/sugestions for good looking cropped images in a product booklet
I am doing this booklet for some chairs and I have a problem.
The problem is that I have small images, but the booklet is intended for A4 print.
I will post 2 images to explain my problem.
What I ...
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How can I prevent Export/Printing of an InDesign document if placeholders are still in place?
Pretty straightforward, as in the title.
Our University paper's staff sometimes doesn't have the manpower to even Search for Lorem Ipsums, and often times other basic omissions occur, like updating ...
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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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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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Use data merge of indesign using console or through an API
I am trying to evaluate Adobe Indesign for my needs. In this regards, I asked
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6164612/generate-a-catalog-for-print-and-web
I looked at the tutorial posted in the ...
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How to apply text effect in InDesign but not have it effect text stroke?
I need to apply an inner shadow effect to some text in InDesign, which works fine. But I also need to apply a stroke to the text, but the effect is also being applied to the stroke ( unlike in ...
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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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What is InDesign used for?
What is Adobe InDesign used for as opposed to Photoshop or Illustrator?
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InDesign: Threaded text with different master pages
I have two master pages, "2-col Master" and "4-col Master". I start out with a 4-col page and insert text. InDesign will insert the remaining pages (each with 4-cols) until the text is complete. How ...
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Typing single quotes in InDesign
Every time I type character ' InDesign converts it to ›; why? How do I fix it?
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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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