Hello! Potlatch Corporation ran a promotion about 5 years ago called "Ben Day" - It included a film, calendar and a series of postcards - including my...
Hi On Mac Panther with ID CS, when I try to "edit original" on a graphic, it bounces up in Preview instead of Photoshop. I can't find a preference setting...
Jaleen, Sounds like you are opening a generic file. What you can do to change this for all occurrence is to find the file in finder, get info about it, then ...
I have a 60 page user manual previously done in Word. I am going to move it into ID 2 and update it . Since it is a single document, I don't think I see a...
Hi John, I do books in ID2 and it is easier to edit and move around chapters. Especially if the book is still in the writing phases. The story editor is easier...
Hi Gang, I’m working on a book cover that has an extra 1/4 inch (bleed?) on all sides. I can’t get the crop marks to reflect this extra area so the printer...
I just did something like that. Make your document size the final size of the piece after it's trimmed. Have the image go as far as you want beyone that and be...
It's in your Print Dialog box under crops and bleeds or something like that. You have to tell it how big you want the final thing -- DON'T set up your art for...
... You do know you can change the units, right? As for how "nuts" it is, it's publishing measurements....Picas and Points, to be precise. The first number is...
Does InDesign offer the ability to add crop marks to a shape or object, as does Illustrator. I find this very helpful when I am laying out a design WITHIN a...
The step-and-repeat function in ID is fine, but I'd love to see the "manual" step-and-repeat that PageMaker used. Just copy, paste in place, relocate the ...
... the ... You're not the only one that misses this from PageMaker. I seem to recall there *is* a way to do this, but I can't ever remember how. Kevin Quosig ...
My master page has a full-page ruled text box with a small black star at the bottom corner with automatic page number reversed out of it. I applied this master...
Hi, Have a look on the Adobe/InDesign web site. There's a page with scripts, one of them is called "Cropmarks" or something along those lines which lets you do...
We were recently upgraded to Entourage (It¹s a new form of Outlook) here at work. When I have Entourage open, I have noticed some of my keyboard shortcuts in...
I am running ID 2.0 and have a question about page references. I am sure that there is an easy way to do what I seek, but not being familiar with book terms,...
As far as I know, and please someone correct me if I´m wrong, you can only add page references in text to the current, previous and next pages. This is done...
The book feature in InDesign was implemented with workgroups in mind as it is useful to see who is working on each chapter and when, to update page numbers...
You could try creating a different layer for the ruled text box and then move this layer to the bottom of the Layers list on the Layers pane. ... star at the ...
Greetings, After lurking here for some time, I am coming out of the shadows to ask a question. I use InDesign (CS) for most of my page layout work. Sometimes...
Peter, I create lots of large books in both 4-color with spot and 4-color without spots. All files go to press as PDF files. Its the standard in the large book...
Hi Rick, Thank you so much for the fast and thorough response. I will indeed check my settings to make sure no such conversion is designated. However, unless...
Peter, The settings in your color palette for InDesign are the culprits. Acrobat does not modify PDF files unless you change settings for a files and resave ...
Sounds like that should work! Thanks for the suggestion. <You could try creating a different layer for the ruled text box and then move this layer to the...
The default appears to be that the "convert spot to cmyk" box is unchecked. At least it was on my computer and I don't recall ever using that before. Since I...