Recent content by tad1952

Pasting images into InDesign embeds the images & the file size expands accordingly. Placing the images with links will keep the file size down.

I started browsing & tracked down a couple of places selling the InTools plugin for CS & CS2 - ranging from $15US to 59Pounds. The latter has a demo version available for PC or Mac but I could only install it on InDesign CS - maybe CS2 is available once you buy it.

Easy - Use a paragraph rule, make it the weight of the height of the reverse box you require, colour it to suit your needs, adjust the offset to position it or adjust be offset of the type - sometimes a combination of the 2 works best.

I must be missing something because I just don't get it. Once I ceate a document, I expect those preference to stick & if someone goes into my file and changes the preferences for any item, then it is NO ACCIDENT. If I set my defaults to be a .5 black rule, then that is the default setting I...

Open ID, do NOT open any documents, Preferences/Units & Increments, change the amount of leading to whatever you want, QUIT ID. Now whenever you open ID, your amount will be the default. Do this for anything you want - h&js, strokes, colours, drop shadow, default font, paragraph styles, page...

kzhessel - you jumped the gun. GoGz is absolutely correct. Open ID but do NOT open any documents, create all the attributes you want: h&j's, stroke width, default font & size, drop shadow, colours, even paragraph & character styles - anything you can think of. For example, select the frame...

We had a customer who was very upset because the proofs we were printing for him did not match his files. It ended up that he was selecting pantone colours simply by how they looked on the screen - he had no swatch book. His screen was way too dark so the colours he was seeing were several...

Set up the block of type with the drop shadow the way you want it & then drag the frame into a library. For text, drag the frame out, double click on it & replace the type retaining exactly the same drop shadow treatment as the original text block. For a logo, drag the frame out, select it...

Anabole I'm not sure if this will help or not, but check View/Display Performance. Iif it is set to high quality display, change it to Typical. I set up files for murals/display units/billboards - anything large format - and if I have lots of high res photos, InDesign can start to bog down. So I...

Touch & hold the tab on any one of the toolbars & drag it out into your desktop then drag the others into the new palette. You can drag the others so the tabs line up in the same toolbox or dock them at the bottom.

Try this - Check your file size then do a "Save As" and either overwrite the original or rename & save - you'll see the file size drop dramatically.

For one of my jobs, I also write postscript to a specific ppd. I put the ppd in OSX/Library/printers/PPDs and restarted my computer to get it to show up in my list of drivers available to ID.

Insert a blank page in front of page 1. Page 1 will change to page 2 so you will have to tell the page to start a new section with the numbering starting at page 1 so you'll have "blank page, page 1, page 2, page 3". Now when you print, the blank with print on the left of your 8-1/2 x 11 page &...

For one particular job, I have to send my pdfs out-of-house. My printer was having to open the pdfs & resave them in order to get them to print properly. We had a little chit-chat, ran a few test. Here's how I make his pdfs: Command/print Printer - postscript file PPD - PSM 7.1 (the ppd...

If you are concerned about saving time, you might consider using leader dots instead of periods. Select the copy, click on the tab marker to set up a right hand tab & move it to where you want the right hand number to line up. Type a period into the "leader" box. Now all you have to do is...