If you’re the type that places all your images and text onto the pasteboard (the space around the actual page) before you start your design/layout work in Adobe InDesign, then this tip is for you.
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Any time I can save myself from moving the mouse from one end of the screen to the other I consider it a big win. This little shortcut saves me a lot of mousing around with a 27″ hooked up to a MacBook Pro.
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InDesign’s Text Frame Options dialog box contains a few features/options you may find yourself using often, such as adjusting the column width of your text frame, adding inset spacing, adjusting the frame justification, adjusting your baseline options, and more. There are two ways (I know of) to quickly access the Text Frame Options.
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Adobe is like your kids that just can’t stay out of trouble. You love them, but you just want to kill them sometimes (that’s a bit extreme, but you get the idea).
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Did you know that Guides in Adobe InDesign will snap to the edge of an object when you have that object selected?
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This is something I see people asking all the time. How do I make the numbers in a number list line-up with the period after the number instead of being left justified.
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Most designers know how to create styles, but few go beyond the basics. This short video will show you how to use InDesign’s Based On Styles.
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If you’ve been in the design business long enough, you probably remember a time when adding a padded keyline around images in magazines, newspapers and booklets was all the rage. Rage is a great description!
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If you find yourself exporting fillable-forms from InDesign to PDF often, you no doubt have felt the frustration of all your work being dumbed-down or flat-out not looking right when you open the file in Acrobat. It’s really frustrating. But don’t sweat it, there is a solution.
Calendars are a pain in the behind to build—especially ones that are easily editable. Building a calendar in Adobe InDesign gives you maximum flexibility for editing and use. But getting to that point is the difficult part.
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From creating interactive EPUBs and drawing logos to applying effects to text and graphics, Shutterstock Blog has Five cool things you may not have known you could do in InDesign.