I recently participated in an online discussion started by an individual having difficulty when placing text. The text would be automatically be formatted by a certain paragraph and/or character style. The styles would stay the same for each document placed for a while, and then change for some reason. She hadn’t been able to discern …
Category Archive: Basics
May
31
2011
Create Your Perfect Workspace
Versions CS4 and later of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign all use a standardized user interface that allows users to customize the visibility and arrangement of panels. This panel arrangement is referred to as your workspace. These 3 products also allow you to save multiple workspaces for different purposes. A well organized workspace will help you …
May
26
2011
Backward Compatibility in InDesign
I’ve recently participated in a number of online discussions concerning backward compatibility in InDesign. It seems to be a popular topic! In response to demand for clarification on the subject I’ve written this article. Opening Documents from Previous Versions in the Current Version InDesign has always been able to open documents created in any previous …
May
25
2011
InDesign Styles 101
InDesign’s styles are global formatting presets. InDesign offers powerful styles for text, tables, objects, and several other design elements in your document, but we fill focus only on text styles for the time being. A paragraph style can save and apply complex text formatting to an entire paragraph with just a few clicks. Character styles …
May
10
2011
Getting the Most from InDesign’s Realtime Preflight
I often get calls and emails from people wondering, “Why is InDesign telling me I have errors?” When asked for more information, they explain that they see a “red light” at the bottom of their document window, followed by how many of these errors they have. They’re a bit mystified as to what it means …
Apr
05
2011
InDesign’s Dysfunctional Defaults
I love Adobe InDesign. The application functions beautifully. The title of this post merely reflects the fact that InDesign presents new users with some surprising default settings that need to be changed in order for the application to behave the way new users would expect. I work with many first-time InDesign users. Often they’ve gotten …
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