Consider this part 2 in the series ‘working with text on a tinted background Part 1 being yesterday’s blog-post Center that vertically… (Framed).
Where the previous post pointed to framed text frames, which are useful for ads, book-cover designs, poster designs…

Unthreaded text frames, filled with a colour and a single line of capitalized text that is both horizontally and vertically centered.…

Some time ago Tomaxxi (Marijan Tompa) wrote a small script that allows you to rename images from within InDesign. You might wonder why you’d want to use a script like this? Well, I actually found myself using it this morning…

After reading David’s blog-post on InDesign Secrets, titled “Building an Org Chart or Flowchart in InDesign“.  I thought… “How does building illustrations in InDesign impact the development of Accessible PDF with InDesign CS5.5?”
InDesign CS5.5 introduced significant new features for…

Amongst a list of issues that’s been resolved with today’s Adobe InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 update release are a couple of EPUB issues. Notably:

An issue in the DOCTYPE of the EPUB, where InDesign would insert an extra space, which in…

Back in InDesign CS3 Text Variables were introduced. Amongst a number of things we can use them to automatically generate running headers at the top of book or report pages, by placing a text variable placeholder on the master page…

The upcoming Perth InDesign User Group meeting, October 5, is the 3rd anniversary of the user group. We will take you back to the basics during this meet… The IDUG meetings are a great way of meeting other InDesign users…

InDesign CS5.5 introduces a new feature called Linked Stories. I’ve just posted a contributor blog-post on InDesign Secrets that gives one example of how you could use this new feature.
Cari Jansen – Trainer, Print & Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer,…

This blog-post gives an example of how InDesign CS5.5′s new Linked Story feature can be used.…

We all get this question as designers: “Can you provide us with a copy of the logo or masterhead design in a format that we can use in Microsoft Word”… or “PowerPoint”?
Illustrator CS, released back in 2003, introduced the…

One of the new InDesign CS5.5′s EPUB Export Option features is the ability to control whether images are exported with Fixed width or Relative to Page Size setting. In this blog-post I’m running through a few findings.
Note: I’m only…

I’ve been head deep into EPUB… and wanted to share another finding with InDesign CS5.5. A short post only, because I’m in the middle of work
InDesign CS5.5 now recognises character styles that are applied through nested styles and GREP…

Martinho da Gloria (www.automatication.com), this week released the 1.02 update for the Mulit-Find/Change plug-in he developed for InDesign.
About this plug-in
Whether it’s to fix common formatting issues in manuscripts you import in InDesign for book and EBook publishing, such…

Updated 10-May-2011 (added alternate option, thanks to Bob’s comment)
Publishers quite often generate multiple paragraph styles for bulleted and numbered lists behaviour. For instance the first or last bullet point in a list might have slightly different space before and…

Publishers quite often generate multiple paragraph styles for bulleted and numbered lists behaviour. For instance the first or last bullet point in a list might have slightly different space before and after settings applied to it.
I’ve been working on…

Have just posted a new blog-post on the InDesign Secrets blog. If you’re curious about pink, green and blue smart guides, then go and have a look and discover where and when smart guides pop-up in InDesign CS5.
Cari Jansen…

Smart Guides were introduced in InDesign CS4. By now most of us have probably encountered them, those green and pink smarties that pop-up when we are moving objects around the page or resizing or transforming objects. But have you encountered…

It’s been a little quiet I know… I’ve been pretty flat-out with work and have just I spend my long-holiday weekend eating chocolate and studying for my Adobe Acrobat X Pro recertification exam. Glad to say, I’ve just completed the…

Happy to announce the launch of a new brain-child I’ve been working on in my limited spare time the past weeks. A new digital magazine published with Adobe tools… Adobe InDesign & Overlay creator plug-in for the layout, Digital Content…

When working on EPUB output from InDesign, the stylesheet names in the generated CSS can become quite long, at the same time the number of styles for more complex documents can increase quickly. So I’ve started placing paragraph styles in…