Yes, that’s right my friends, CS five! Anybody can show you CS4, but only here at Publicious will you get the scoop on CS5. We have obtained super secret plans from our moles within the Adobe empire, revealing a radical new direction for the Creative Suite. Codenamed XMullet, the Creative Suite is being reworked from [...]
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More bits of tid from the InDesign CS3 Help file. In this episode: pages 51-100. p. 52 Right-click/control-click an empty spot in the document window to get a lite version of the View menu at your cursor. (grids and guides controls, display performance, rulers, zooming). Ruler guides come in two flavors, page guides, and spread [...]
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Last week I wrote a goofy post about what I called InDesign Ghost Frames. These are frames on a master page that have no stroke, no fill, and no not allow master item overrides. You can see the frame edges when you’re looking at the master page, but from a document page, there is no [...]
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On the re-certifcation front, I’m continuing to plow through the InDesign Help file. Some of it is like reading a how-to guide for tying your shoes, but occasionally there are things that make me go “Oh! So that’s what that does,” or “Wow! That’s freaking awesome!”, or even, “Oh wow, I wish I’d known that [...]
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Ahoy mateys! T’is I, Captain Mike, returned from my time at sea, with a tip straight from Davey Jones’ locker, on how to hoist a ghostly Jolly Roger on an InDesign page. Arrrr! Whew, sorry for the piratespeak. A week of sun, sand, and gift shops stocked with eyepatches and rubber hooks will do that [...]
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I am not a scripter, nor do I play one on TV. I know my share of HTML, CSS, and XML, but really I’m just an old school publishing geek who never tires of learning the next trick or tool. My hands are all GUI from years of keyboard shortcuts. I know scripting is in [...]
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. As an unashamed Buffy fan, I have to admit that every time I hear the word “master” I get visions of Buffy’s original Big Bad. The aged vampire who she eventually ends up beating after making a witty remark about him dying (poofing actually, since he was already dead). While he was a A [...]
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Because my friends don’t really understand what I do, I often get asked by them to do things that are outside my area of knowledge Can you design my letterhead/business card/logo? I’m not a designer. I know more about design than I used to, and I have a decent sense of the basics, but I’m [...]
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