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| Cover for literary journal | 1/6/2009 | Candice Anderson |
Q: I am wondering how I go about creating my cover using InDesign.I am creating a literary journal for ...
A: To avoid extra fees, make all documents to the size of 7 by 9 WITH a .125 inch bleed all around. ...
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| Folio question | 1/5/2009 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: I have my folio on the master page but what if I dont want it on the Toc and the first 3 pages? By ...
A: Welcome to the wonderful world of publication design. This is an easy one. You can do one of two ...
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| Cover for literary journal | 1/5/2009 | Candice Anderson |
Q: I am wondering how I go about creating my cover using InDesign.I am creating a literary journal for ...
A: let's assume the front of the book is 8.5 by 11 (making the whole thing, front cover and back cover, ...
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| InDesign CS3 Mac & PC conversion issues | 1/3/2009 | Candice Anderson |
Q: my name is Julian, and I am the Editor in Chief of my school newspaper. With the start of this ...
A: The most likely problem is that you are working in CS2 at home, or lower. If this is the case, what ...
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| Drop Shadow | 1/2/2009 | Glen Demers |
Q: I want to use a very slight drop shadow on some text in InDesign. I converted text to outlines and ...
A: When you make the pdf use the pdfX/1-a setting or Press quality and make sure your printer can rip a ...
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| Drop Shadow | 1/2/2009 | Glen Demers |
Q: I want to use a very slight drop shadow on some text in InDesign. I converted text to outlines and ...
A: If you aren't printing to a high resolution postscript device you may want to export your pages as a ...
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| Putting text in the margins | 1/1/2009 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: Is there a way of setting a paragraph style so that it will allow the text to appear in the margins, ...
A: Create one paragraph style for your headings and one for your text. In the text paragraph style, set ...
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| page numbering | 12/28/2008 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: InDesign CS3: I have set the page numbering in a 30 page publication but can not get the page ...
A: This is always an area of confusion for people so don't feel bad. You have to manually activate ...
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| Catalogue design | 12/23/2008 | Mehdi Saharkhiz |
Q: I am a PC user using InDesign CS4 to create around a 100 page print catalogue. I want to have a full ...
A: Dan if the book has many chapters you should use it as a book only if more then one person is ...
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| Print to PDF | 12/15/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: How do I print my In Design File to a PDF?? The only Save As options I see are "in design document" ...
A: This is an Export function. You need to select one of the PDF Export settings in the file menu ...
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| Bullets | 12/11/2008 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: Is there any easy way to format bulleted lists so that if a bullet has more than one line of text, ...
A: Yes, it's really easy. Create a paragraph style for your bulleted list. In the Paragraph Style ...
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| Text | 12/10/2008 | Mehdi Saharkhiz |
Q: I consider myself fairly skilled with Indesign, I'm using CS4 by the way. Anyways, what I want to ...
A: Nick there are two ways to do this one you can change the text into outlines then subtract the ...
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| InDesign Margin measurements | 12/6/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: I am fairly new to InDesign and I am working on a magazine file that needs to have 5/8 of an inch ...
A: You could do the math i.e.- 6 picas to 1 inch, 12 points to 1 pica, 72 points to 1 inch - here you ...
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| Follow up | 12/3/2008 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: to give you more information to work with...I figured out why it's changing the way it looks, it's ...
A: I have experienced strange things like this as well. My question back to you is: Is it happening in ...
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| graphic design career | 12/2/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: Black, I'd like to professionally engage in both - children's illustration as well as graphic ...
A: If you have not already been utilizing any software up to this point, I recommend that you take a ...
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| In Design - getting a font to work | 12/1/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: I want to use font: ITC Ronda. I have installed it on my computer and it shows up in all my other ...
A: I had this problem before myself when using the system font folder. It only did it with certain ...
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| Text boxes printing | 11/28/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: When I print a document the outline of the text box prints. How can I prevent this? Thank you.
A: Hey M.F. In the print dialogue under set-up uncheck the print non-printing objects and print ...
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| Designing a 4up postcard double side | 11/25/2008 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: I print duplex to card stock which is perforated into 1/4's and merged with addresses on reverse. ...
A: I think the simplest way to do this is to set up your document with four postcards on a page. Keep ...
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| printing pix in Indesign vs. Photoshop | 11/25/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: Can Indesign print photos of the same quality as Photoshop?I have an issue where an image prints ...
A: Your output should be the same between photoshop and indesign if your color management is ...
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| Justified Text / Table of Contents | 11/21/2008 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: I am trying to create a table of contents with page numbers in this format: Part One: ...
A: I think the InDesign help site can explain this better than I can. Sorry! Read this first: ...
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| Text Flow from Page to Page | 11/18/2008 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: I know you explained to me how to auto-flow text from an imported word document, but what if i'm ...
A: I'm not sure how to get the text to auto-flow from one page to the next when you're typing, but I ...
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| corruption when printing to Phaser 7760 | 11/18/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: Having trouble with file corruption when printing to a phaser 7760 from indesign. The files range ...
A: Have you tried printing to a different printer? What kind of corruption? Does it print at all, or ...
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| Page Numbering | 11/15/2008 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: I have page numbers set up on my master page. How do I get the page numbers to start where I want? I ...
A: I have a fix for you. Very simple. In the Pages palete, click on the page you want to be numbered ...
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| Image goes from great to poor quality in Indesign.. | 11/14/2008 | Mehdi Saharkhiz |
Q: Why is it a excellen picture turns out bad when I imported it to Indesign? I "place" the pic and ...
A: Allan the pictures you see in Indesign are just preview if you like to see the highres photo you ...
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| Indesign links to images in a pdf document | 11/12/2008 | Glen Demers |
Q: I have inherited our IT training manuals in INDD (CS3 for PC). The manuals are 200+ pages(hence ...
A: That file size seems large to me. Make sure you are linking to the graphics and not embedding them. ...
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| InDesign Rules problem | 11/11/2008 | Glen Demers |
Q: I am having a problem with a document I am working on in InDesign. I did not set it up originally, ...
A: The only thing I can think of, if they aren't rules or underlines, would be dynamic spelling ...
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| converting Pagemaker documents to InDesign | 11/6/2008 | Candice Anderson |
Q: I previously used Pagemaker 6.5 and have MANY documents created in that format. Now I use InDesign ...
A: Are you on a PC? Do you have service pack 3 on it (and if you are on a new computer, my guess is ...
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| .doc into InDesign | 11/4/2008 | James Fritz |
Q: I am working in InDesignCS2 (4.0.5) When I Place a Word .doc into my file it changes the ...
A: pkquest, Word is not a layout tool, therefore you can not trust what you see in the word file. ...
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| InDesign Error in School Yearbook SOftware | 11/4/2008 | Sharon MacGregor |
Q: Our school uses Walsworth in connection with Indesign to publish the yearbook. They are currently ...
A: I would call the Walsworth technical support (if there is such a thing). I've never heard of that ...
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| Creating a booklet in InDesign | 11/3/2008 | Roy Wilhelm |
Q: I have taken over publicity and public relations for an educational, college-level dance program. ...
A: You may want to check this out: ...
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| Printing to a R2400 in INDesign 5.0.4 | 11/1/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: In the Printer, under color matching, if one clicks on colorsync, one has to choose a profile. The ...
A: I am not really familiar with how the profiling works on your printer. I would try to make your ...
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| probems in colors | 11/1/2008 | Candice Anderson |
Q: while exporting redesign file into pfd, in summary there is warnings- the preset specifies source ...
A: did you use photoshop for any of the process? if you did, you did your work in RGB mode, or screen ...
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| illustrator CS | 10/31/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: "Hi im a graphic design. so this is the situation im working on 10 files in illustrator cs and they ...
A: While symbols link to the symbols palette, the information for them is stored within the document ...
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| image with transparent background "ghosts" when printed in house? | 10/30/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: I'm a Graphic Communication Student working as a Designer. I'm having an issue with a few different ...
A: My first assumption is that it is your printer, especially if you cannot see this on screen. It ...
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| illustrator CS | 10/30/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: "Hi im a graphic design. so this is the situation im working on 10 files in illustrator cs and they ...
A: I am not readily aware of any xref capabilities within Illustrator. I recommend checking into ...
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| Printing my InDesign document | 10/29/2008 | James Fritz |
Q: i have IDCS3 and am creating a four-page, 8.5x11" brochure. The last time I made one, exported it ...
A: Meagan, I can't really tell you what the perfect margins are, since I don't know what kind of ...
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| Links within Indesign | 10/28/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: We are a large advertising agency with dozens of mac workstation running CS3 products. We are ...
A: While I know that Apple can have some issues with SMB vs. AFP, the only issue there that comes to ...
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| Indesign Printing | 10/27/2008 | Glen Demers |
Q: I'm creating a large grid using line in Indesign. When converting to PDF and sending for print, ...
A: This is caused by the resolution of your printer and the fact that they are screened lines in your ...
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| Question regarding Indesign and magazine layouts | 10/25/2008 | Ken Black |
Q: Ok, using Indesign CS4 to create a magazine layout. When looking at other magazines I see the front ...
A: Unfortunately, I am a step behind in the upgrade race for CS4. From what I have seen thus far, the ...
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| formatting issues | 10/24/2008 | Glen Demers |
Q: I have to re-format a 196 page document from 8.5x11 to 5.5x8.5. How do I do that? When I shrunk ...
A: Adolfo, I would create a new document with a frame on each page to hold the pdf. Then using the ...
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