It seems like each day there is a new script coming out to do something cool in InDesign. But what about all the old scripts — those that were written for CS or CS2? Can you use them in InDesign CS3? If you’re a CS3 user with old scripts, you may find that they fail, […]
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InDesignSecrets.com has grown quite a bit over the past two years; in fact, we had over 220,000 visitors serving over a million files last month alone. So today we moved to a new server. (Though we’re still with our great and very helpful ISP, Phillips Data.) However, these things always make us nervous, especially when […]
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Sometimes it’s the little tips that can relieve the biggest frustrations. For example, it always made me crazy that I couldn’t drag the left or right edge handle of a very short text frame to make it wider because the dang “in port” and “out port” gets in the way. After all, if you click […]
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DTP Tools, the makers of plug-ins such as History, Keyboard Shortcuts, and Cross References has a trick up their sleeve that they’re about to release on the industry: The ability to rotate whole spreads 90 degrees to make vertical spreads — where one page is on top of the other. They recently announced that this […]
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I had a need recently to type out a bunch of data (like name, code number, price, and so on). It wasn’t enough work to warrant building a database (in my opinion), and I didn’t have a database handy anyway. But the problem was that I was forever forgetting what text should come next. That […]
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• XML and InDesign: Overview, basics, when and how and why
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Formatted Only Once
Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, a new survey may shed light on why we always focus on the same things each year when it comes to making our resolutions. The survey conducted by Harris Interactive® and commissioned by Buttoned Up, inc. suggests that the things that make us feel most disorganized may line […]
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PhotoSpin, www.photospin.com, a leading royalty free stock subscription company in the United States just announced the launch of their new image server, allowing artists to upload 1000’s of new images per month. These new images include such categories as business people, seasons, signs and medicine. PhotoSpin bases its new image selections on customer requests and […]
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IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows and events, today announced the largest selection of in-depth training and educational opportunities ever presented at Macworld Conference and Expo. Highlights include new two-day training classes on popular Mac products such as Final Cut Studio, Aperture, Adobe™ Creative Suite and Filemaker; a session exploring Apple’s new […]
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