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Adobe Releases InDesign 5.02 Update
Adobe released the InDesign 5.02 update on 1/22/08. You can download the update for the Mac by clicking here or for the PC by clicking here. There was a bit of a delay between the release and my posting about it, maybe next time Adobe wont rudely put out an update on my fiances birthday. As the s …
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InDesign CS2 Classroom in a Book. Chapter 13: Using XML
My new iMac is having some DVD issues so I decided to go the download route in order to install my CS3 applications. Wishing to forgo Adobe.com I checked out their FTP site to see if InDesign CS3 was available there. Unfortunately, no. No, its not. Fortunately I did stumble upon Chapter 13 of In …
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What do you want to see in InDesign CS4?
InDesignCS4.com has a simple question: What do you want to see in InDesign CS4? Im a simple man. I actually wouldnt mind seeing less features. As well as, of course, stability and reliability.
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Awesome Free Font of the Week: African
Heres youre weekly dose of free fontage. This font is called African by Allen Walden, enjoy. [Download Font]??
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Adobe Photoshop PSD files inside InDesign PDFs: What happens?
Adobe InDesign allows you to place Adobe Photoshop (.psd) files directly into page layouts. But what happens when you export that layout to a PDF? Does it retain any of the Photoshop file characteristics? Heres the deal: As long as you use PDF v1.4 or higher, it uses the same transparency model as …
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InDesign CS3: Black Prints as Gray
Mark recently wrote in with a problem he was having in InDesign CS3.?? The color black printed out slightly more grayish than he was anticipating.?? He is using Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) but the problem and solution are the same on Windows XP and Vista as well as when using InDesign CS or CS2.?? Marks p …
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InDesign CS3 and Macworld 2008
Its that time of year again, Macworld time.?? Its a fun and exciting time in the desktop publishing world, especially as this world is increasingly becoming a Mac World.???? Macs have long reigned supreme in the world of graphics, typography and layout and with each passing year the excitement conti …
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Print to Web - Is it worth it?
There is a pretty interesting conversion going on over at PrintPlanet about Print to Web. Its not specifically about InDesign, but I figure many of you InDesign folks out there may be interested in this. In a sense, print to web is kind of ANTI-InDesign, since its basically just form data that gets …
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Applying an Arc to Text
Shannon, a different Shannon from yesterday strangely enough, writes in ands asks, Seems like a simple task, but how do you apply an arc to a text? Im trying to wrap text around my co. logo and I cant seem to figure it out. Unfortunately I dont have the logo but Ill still answer the question best …
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What are InDesign CS3 IDLK Files?
InDesign Help reader, Shannon, recently wrote in with a question about files with an IDLK file extension. Her problem ended up being a bit complex and somewhat specific to her permissions/network but I thought it would be beneficial to all to briefly go over what IDLK files are and what they arent. …
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Kind of Awesome Free Font of the Week: Bad Hangover
For those of you who did a little too much imbibing over the holidays. Download Font by clicking HERE
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Can You Run InDesign CS2 on a Mac Pro?
YES. You can. But remember that if you have (or ever have) installed InDesign CS3 on that machine before, you need to uninstall it (using the official uninstaller) before you can install CS2 successfully. More info at PrintPlanet. Good luck.
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Awesome Free Font of the Week: Relato Sans
This is a complete OpenType font (that means it includes a bunch of alternate characters and glyphs, in other words, awesome). DOWNLOAD FONT
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Problems with ONYX Postershop 6.5
Reader Malcom writes in to ask: When greyscale or bitmap images placed in InDesign CS2 or CS3 (mac) are printed to ONYX Postershop 6.5, the images invert to negative. This doesnt happen in Quark. I can get around it by reversing the image to a negative in CS2, however, this doesnt work in InDesign C …
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Don???t Think of InDesign as a Ferrari, Think of InDesign as a Swiss Army Knife
We recently had a reader write in with a question about an InDesign feature and ended by saying that he really didnt want to switch to InDesign because its kind of like going to the grocery store in a Ferrari. It was a pretty funny analogy, but I want to try to dispel that myth a little bit. The job …
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Different Page Sizes in the Same InDesign Document
Reader Joanne wrote in to ask how she might be able to create a folded document with one half being portrait and the other being landscape. Technically, these are the same page size, just different orientations. If you want to work on them both right side up technically they will be different page …
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Leopard, Helvetica, and InDesign
If you are an Adobe Indesign layout artist who has upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard, you have likely experienced a problem or two with Helvetica. We had some warning before we went into this that Helvetica was to become a system font in Leopard. That means that the operating system is going to take it p …
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Awesome Free Font of the Week: Fontin Sans
Gotta love these free fonts that come in a complete family and are very nice and professional. [DOWNLOAD FONT]
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Installing InDesign CS3 on Leopard (Mac OS 10.5)
Two weeks ago we posted an article on InDesign CS3 Leopard Compatibility. While the amount of outright bugs in InDesign CS3/OS 10.5 is minimal I think its a good idea to discuss possible problems people may have. First off I would highly recommend not upgrading your OS if you have any mission criti …
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Manage Fonts in InDesign CS3 (Windows XP)
InDesign users tend to use more fonts than the average bear. Fonts are a key component to good design, whether it be web design or print work. Because of this its important to actively think of font use and have a variety of fonts at hand. Here at InDesign Help we encourage the broadening of your …
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