I recently participated in a discussion on the Linked-In InDesign Group concerning slow InDesign performance. I wrote a response there based on my own experiences, and then I learned a few things from other writers as well; one tip in particular I wish to share here. I’m rewriting my post from the group here, and …
Category Archive: InDesign
Feb
09
2012
InDesign to MS Word
I’ve written a couple articles about importing content from MS Office into InDesign. But what about going the other way? I was recently asked to do this for a client and had to struggle a bit to find the most effective way to accomplish the task. I found limited resources on the Internet, so I …
Nov
12
2011
Update to the CS5.5 Book Page Numbering Bug (Still no fix, but additional workarounds posted)
This post is a follow-up to my original article concerning the infamous Book Page Numbering Bug. It was recently brought to my attention that, while I had attempted to keep my post from 6 months ago up to date with updates and responses to many comments, it was becoming rather dated. So today I once again …
Sep
29
2011
Zipping EPUB Contents on Windows & Macs
My main point in posting today is to correct an inaccurate statement I had made several months ago concerning how one would compress an EPUB using Windows. Since I work primarily on a Mac, I had made the statement based on what I had read on other sites, but recent testing has proved those sites to …
Sep
23
2011
Case Study: a Data-to InDesign Workflow in which Smart Catalog Lite Excels
Update 10/4/11: I’ve been in communication with Mark Haden and Ian White of 65Bit, and they’ve informed me that while the Lite version of EasyCatalog, which costs $300, does not support the Pagination Module, it does include simplified pagination options. To quote from Ian’s message to me: Instead of the spreadsheet-style view of the data …
Sep
19
2011
Drop Caps in EPUBs
Update 10/4/2011: A reader let me know that the code excerpt on safalra.com did not work for them, so I’ve tested it for myself. There is a bit more to the Safalra.com code than seems necessary to my somewhat inexperienced eye; when I tested it I also had difficulties with it in both Firefox and …
Sep
08
2011
Database to InDesign
Update 9/14/2011: This will be the first installment in a series of articles covering my ongoing research on database-to-InDesign solutions. David Blatner (www.dtptools.com, www.63p.com) has pointed out that I left out one notable plugin, DataLinker from Teacup Software, so in the near future I’ll study and test the plugin and then write a second review including all …
Sep
01
2011
Using Saved Queries in InDesign’s Find/Change
This topic came up recently in regard to my preferred workflow for importing text from MS Word. Since it’s useful in other applications and important in its own right I’ve decided it needs its own article. InDesign’s Find/Change function is quite powerful. Not only can it find and change strings of text, but also text …
Aug
29
2011
Of Endnotes and Footnotes (CS5.5)
Bring up endnotes in a conversation with any long-time InDesigner, and they’re sure to cringe. Why? Because InDesign doesn’t support them. Still. After 12 years, the leading desktop publishing application in the world is still incapable of handling one of the most basic word processing functions. The developers have been too busy implementing interactive features, …
Aug
25
2011
Edit All Export Tags
I love learning. I love InDesign. I don’t love that I feel I should have known about this important tool months ago, but I do love that one of my readers took pity on me and showed it to me! So here it is, InDesign’s Edit All Export Tags dialog, in all its glory: This …
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