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This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 109

I should be getting work done, especially as Anne-Marie is out teaching epub stuff in Maine this week, but instead I’m rummaging through InDesign articles. Found some good ones I want to share with you! Good article about building a grid-based design for a magazine FontMixer from Indiscripts looks really fascinating… need to write a […]

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20 Free Vector Patterns, Volume 2

A couple of weeks ago I posted 20 free vector patterns that I had made (you can see them here) and the response was so positive that I decided to make another 20 available in this 2nd volume. This time, I’m focusing on straight lines: radial lines, horizontal lines, vertical lines… all sorts of line […]

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Action Recorder for InDesign

Many InDesign users have long wished for an Actions panel similiar those in Photoshop and Illustrator to perform repetitive tasks. Of course, you can automate nearly anything in InDesign with a script, but then you have to know how to script. And most users simply don’t have the time or interest to learn scripting.  But […]

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Beware Stacked Transparency in PDF Files Across Long Documents

The Problem I recently encountered a PDF export problem that plagued me for months. I was trying to export a book containing roughly 50 InDesign documents. The last 25 or so documents contained scanned engineering drawings placed as graphics into the InDesign documents. When I tried to export a PDF from the InDesign book file, […]

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