Category Archives: InDesign
An often overlooked aspect of most Creative Cloud apps is their ability to save your program layout and this functionality is fairly common across most of the main programs such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects. Adobe call these workspaces and they can be extremely useful for rapidly loading specific panel sets or […]
One tool that is often under used or even ignored in InDesign is the Gap tool, and it’s a shame as it can be very useful. Basically the tool allows you to manipulate the gaps between frames, and has a number of shortcuts that allow you to control exactly how it works. The Gap tools […]
For years software developers have hidden easter eggs within their programs as a way of having a bit of fun. These can be anything from a hidden message or joke through to a full blown game hidden inside the program. It provides a bit of extra entertainment for people using the software, and to be […]
No More Low Res RGBs! Setting up a simple Preflight in InDesign CC Today I’m going to show you how to setup a Preflight Profile in InDesign to catch any low resolution and/or RGB images. If you’ve spent any time preparing InDesign documents for print you’ll know that one the easiest ways to screw-up the […]
Masters within InDesign are very useful – they provide a common background for whichever page(s) you are working with. But here are some not so well known/used tips regarding masters and pages. A MASTER CAN HAVE A MASTER Say you want a master for Chapter 1 – usually a header and footer. But the footer […]
Here’s a quick tip for more accurate rendering of blacks in Illustrator and InDesign. Under the Preferences menu you’ll find a tab for Appearance of Black. The screenshot here is from Illustrator but the settings are the same in InDesign. There are two settings, one for On Screen and one for Printing/Exporting. By default these […]
One question I am sometimes asked is “once you have created a frame in InDesign, can you change the frame shape without recreating it from scratch”. The good news is there are a number of ways to change frame shapes in InDesign once you have created them, without having to go through the whole creation […]
INDD is the document extension for an Adobe InDesign Document file. These files can be opened an edited using the Adobe InDesign software which is available from https://www.adobe.com/indesign Adobe InDesign is the leading software for laying out professional looking documents, and is commonly used in marketing and communications teams, as well as for producing bids […]