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Automating Bleed-edge Tabs

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    • September 3, 2019 at 1:50 pm #1183563
      Jennifer Schmidt
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      My google-fu is failing me. I’m remembering an article? video? where someone cleverly automated the placement and text of bleed-edge tabs down the right side of the spread, but I can’t find it.

      I’m not even sure I have an industry standard name for what I’m looking for. Bleed-edge tabs = the blocks of color running down the edge of the pages of a long document providing visual division, sometimes with a different placement on the page for each section, sometimes just a different color, sometimes both! InDesign Magazine Issue 123 has an example of a top bleed-edge tab, Figure 25 on p.20.

      Anyone know the name for what I’m talking about? And the automation of the placement of them?

      Thanks

    • September 3, 2019 at 2:12 pm #14324197
      David Blatner
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      Colin Flashman wrote up a wild trick using the Chartwell font here:
      https://indesignsecrets.com/moving-side-tabs-using-only-one-master-page-and-chartwell-bars.php

    • September 4, 2019 at 9:25 am #14324189
      Jennifer Schmidt
      Participant

      Side tabs! And that is the article I was vaguely remembering. Thank you!

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