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| Subject | Date Asked |
| inDesign CS5 to CS3 | 5/13/2012 |
| Q: I am running Macs: Snow Leopard at work, non-Intel Leopard at home. inDesign CS5 at work, CS3 at ... A: You can open a document created in one version of InDesign with a NEWER version, but you can't open ... | |
| Acquiring Style definitions | 2/1/2012 |
| Q: I'm trying to acquire the style definitions used in our college catalog as listed in the paragraph ... A: Yes, you can export the information to a text file. Click within the text box Choose Export form ... | |
| Importing from online Victorian periodical into InDesign 2-col template | 1/29/2012 |
| Q: I'm working on an open access Uni based research project that is making the weekly mags superbly ... A: Sorry for the slow reply. If I understand you correctly, perhaps the Balance Columns option will do ... | |
| Selecting Text | 11/17/2011 |
| Q: I feel like I must be missing something...Is there a way to select multiple pieces of text that are ... A: No, not exactly ... however this solution might be helpful: 1. Select the eyedropper tool 2. Click ... | |
| ThRef: question | 11/15/2011 |
| Q: Good day Could you tell me what does Indesign do that Illustrator cannot do? Why does one need ... A: Illustrator is for creating pictures. InDesign is for creating pages that may contain multiple ... | |
| Ref: question | 11/15/2011 |
| Q: Good day Could you tell me what does Indesign do that Illustrator cannot do? Why does one need ... A: Illustrator is an artwork design program; InDesign is a page layout program. You create images with ... | |
| Books VS Documents and Master Pages | 9/28/2011 |
| Q: Can I create master pages for applying to a book? If all the chapters are documents and added into ... A: Click on the flyout menu in the Book palette and choose Synchronise Options .... There you will see ... | |
| Using Palette Data | 6/27/2011 |
| Q: How do I (automatically) compare the list of links in my InDesign links pallet to a MicroSoft Excel ... A: I don't think there is any way to do this automatically. I can think of two things you can do: 1. ... | |
| Emailing merged docuements | 5/5/2011 |
| Q: is there a way in indesign to, using data merge, to email the resulting files to emails held in the ... A: Not as far as I know. In what format is your database stored? You could use something like CatBase ... | |
| Missing Links and Locked File | 5/4/2011 |
| Q: First, when I open an InDesign Brochure I created, it says I have 19 missing links. All of the ... A: When the document was created, how was the text placed? What was the source of the text? Whatever it ... | |
| help! | 4/30/2011 |
| Q: i am working with indesign cs5, just made my document with data merge. This document contains 65000 ... A: Sorry but I guess I still don't understand :) " in the first page of indesign 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 pages ... | |
| Adobe PDF presets | 4/8/2011 |
| Q: i want to create a new preset for indesign as i have pdf file who size is 30 mb therefor i went to ... A: The preset [Smallest file size] will create the smallest PDF. If that is still too big, you can use ... | |
| Inserting a Page | 3/24/2011 |
| Q: Good afternoon. When I insert a "none" page into the document, every page after has the master page ... A: Could you send me s sample document to take a look at? Also a bit more info - eg - What version of ... | |
| How to embed video in SWF from InDesign CS5 ? | 3/24/2011 |
| Q: I have produced a booklet in InDesign CS5 and it contains a couple of videos among some minor ... A: This is a feature of InDesign that I haven't used, so I don't think I can be of much help to you :) ... | |
| montessori math | 3/7/2011 |
| Q: i want to know that how i make number boxes work sheet? or send me a number box page.thanks A: Sorry, I don't really understand your question. However this answer might be of help: You can ... | |
| Data Merging Formatted Text | 2/16/2011 |
| Q: We are trying to publish an abstract catalogue using InDesign. The content in each entry would ... A: The simplest solution is probably to create a Character Style in Indesign in which you set the size ... | |
Answers by Expert:
Pat Bensky
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Expertise
My specialty is database publishing: using InDesign to produce publications such as catalogues, directories, price lists, classified ads etc. - anything that's based on data from a database or spreadsheet.
Experience
I have been working with page layout programs since the very first first of QuarkXPress back in .... 1987? I've worked with InDesign since it first came out and have helped many clients to create their publications using database publishing methods, and have written an application to streamline the process (CatBase).
Publications
As I used to be a journalist working for an international news agency (in a previous lifetime) I have been published in many publications around the world. As for technology writing: I was Editor-in-Chief of a Mscintosh magazine (MacGuide) and have written for various other publications on a freelance basis, such as The LA Weekly and InfoWorld.
Education/Credentials
College: Certificate in computer programming and information Processing
University: Post-graduate diploma in IT (Liverpool University)
Past/Present Clients
Barclays Bank, Stanley Tools, Europa Components, The American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham), and many others. My software (CatBase) has also been used by design firms to produce publications for such clients as Kellogg's, The English Tourist Board. and numerous others.
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