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Comment on Repeating Paragraph Styles for listings in InDesign by Alistair Dabbs

Alistair Dabbs — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:04:00 +0000

Thanks, Scott. This is a great approach if the frame contains only the multi-style listing, allowing the looping Paragraph Styles to repeat themselves in order from the first paragraph to the last. In my particular case, the listing is split into sub-sections with irregular crossheads: I need to be able to select the text in one section and apply the Paragraph Style and Next Style just to that selected text.

Comment on Repeating Paragraph Styles for listings in InDesign by Scott

Scott — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:48:13 +0000

Additionally, add Next Style to an Object Style and let the text frame do the formatting for you.

Follow the instructions above. Then create a new Object Style (CS2, CS3). Select Paragraph Styles as part of the Object Style. Select the first style as your Paragraph Style in the drop-down menu (in this case it’s listings head). Check the Apply Next Style box.

Now, apply the the Object Style to the text box and the styles will follow the loop without having to ctrl-click > apply listings head then next style.

Comment on Adobe announces Acrobat 9 by Creative Suite 3.3 and Acrobat 9 are now available « LAYOUT : the newsletter of page design

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:24:33 +0000

[...] Published 25 June 2008 software , updates & fixes Following up our story from 2 June (Adobe Announces Acrobat 9), Adobe is from today now shipping Acrobat 9 in all its editions. Creative Suite has also been [...]

Comment on Use live text as a picture mask in InDesign by ASchlot

ASchlot — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:37:48 +0000

I was goofing about with other transparency settings, and I noticed that the “Screen” setting allows for the type to be any color you select. This will tint the objects you are masking. I found this with some Illustrator objects dropped in behind the text box.

Comment on Ultimate wood-free paper: it’s made of stone by Jeff Salisbury

Jeff Salisbury — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:12:11 +0000

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Comment on Adobe announces Acrobat 9 by Alistair Dabbs

Alistair Dabbs — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:00:08 +0000

Thanks for the link, Yogesh, but I should warn LAYOUT readers that it points to a completely uncritical list of new product features, not a product review.

- Alistair

Comment on Adobe announces Acrobat 9 by Yogesh Amberkar

Yogesh Amberkar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:36:59 +0000

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It also contains detailed and fabulous review of Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com which was a lot helpful.

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Comment on Use live text as a picture mask in InDesign by Alistair Dabbs

Alistair Dabbs — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:02:36 +0000

Off the top of my head, Nessa, you could try colouring the text as ‘Registration’ and placing it BEHIND the image, then applying a Color Dodge transparency effect to the image. I suspect this wouldn’t print out very well (putting text or strokes behind a transparency effect is nearly always problematic in my experience) but do give it a try.

- Alistair

Comment on Use live text as a picture mask in InDesign by Nessa

Nessa — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:27:29 +0000

I was wondering if you knew how I can get text that is half on a image to be one color the other half (off image) another color. Example- I have a black photo and want the half of text on image be white and the other half of the text which is hanging off the image be black. Any solutions? I’m working in Indesign.

Thanks!!!

Comment on Pantone Goe? We’ll wait… by Pantone launches Goe colour system « LAYOUT : the newsletter of page design

Pantone launches Goe colour system « LAYOUT : the newsletter of page design — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:55:33 +0000

[...] Published September 11th, 2007 industry news , software , hardware As predicted in my earlier post, Pantone launched its much-hyped Goe colour system in the UK on 10 September. Contrary to my [...]

Comment on Pantone Goe? We’ll wait… by Alistair Dabbs

Alistair Dabbs — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:32:43 +0000

How long did you get to play with the system before you wrote the Macworld review, Jim?

Comment on Pantone Goe? We’ll wait… by Jim

Jim — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:49:51 +0000

Actually, it will go on sale October 1st, not September 10th. There have been numerous articles, including but not limited to:
Macworld review
and
Creative Pro review.

This is a huge deal for designers and printers. I don’t buy into the so-called hype, but it is a nice system. I think it’s going to be 5 years or more before it starts to settle in as a regularly accepted tool for designers to use though. People don’t change overnight… and software RIPS update even slower.

Comment on QuarkXPress 7 vs InDesign CS3 report is flawed by Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:38:26 +0000

Alistair, thank you.

I looked at the study, and became so annoyed at the obvious author bias that I dismissed it without careful examination. You are much more patient person than I.

Comment on Printers upset at Adobe deal with Fedex Kinko’s by Adobe agrees to back down on Fedex Kinko’s deal « LAYOUT : the newsletter of page design

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:29:11 +0000

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Comment on Collapse all InDesign palettes at once by Alistair Dabbs

Alistair Dabbs — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:46:50 +0000

I must have been half-asleep when I wrote my post, Greg. Sorry about that. I meant, of course, Ctrl-Alt-Tab, not Alt-Shift-Tab. On the Mac, it’s Command-Alt-Tab. I have edited the post above with the correct keyboard combination. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

Comment on Collapse all InDesign palettes at once by greg

greg — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:45:08 +0000

When I type alt-shift-tab, it switches programs (a la alt-tab). Adding the shift doesn’t seem to change that behavior for me, other than now cycling through programs in the reverse order.

Or is this a mac shortcut that doesn’t work on the PC?

Comment on No bleed at spine by Clint

Clint — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:27:35 +0000

Great Tip! Wondered what that was

Comment on Font cache causes InDesign to ‘unexpectedly quit’ by InDesigns Font Cache - absatzsetzer.de

InDesigns Font Cache - absatzsetzer.de — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:58:14 +0000

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Comment on Use live text as a picture mask in InDesign by Alistair Dabbs

Alistair Dabbs — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:05:30 +0000

Good question, apg! (Interesting name, by the way)
In Adobe InDesign CS2, use the Transparency palette.

Comment on Use live text as a picture mask in InDesign by apg

apg — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:03:40 +0000

Where is the Effects palette in CS2???