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2013 InDesign Tips and Tricks
Preserve Vectors when moving files from Photoshop to InDesign
There could be numerous reasons why you’d want to move your print files from Photoshop to InDesign CS6. Manipulating the Photoshop design in InDesign can improve productivity and save a lot of time if you’re familiar with both products. In particular, InDesign has great text features and is faster when dealing with higher DPI files. If you want to move your Photoshop files to InDesign, and maintain vector or type layers, you should save the file as a PDF in Photoshop. Vector graphics are made up of lines and curves, determined by their mathematical characteristics. If you zoom in or out, they maintain their smooth lines and edges. If you save your Photoshop files as PSD or TIFF, they will be turned into bitmaps and your lines will be pixilated when you go to print your design. Bitmaps, on the other hand, are made up of pixels that create jagged or saw tooth edges when blown up. Save your files as PDF's with fonts embedded and your vector lines are maintained. However, some of those PDF files exported to InDesign can take a while to print depending on the number of text and raster background layers.
Converting Master Text Frames in Older Versions of InDesign to CS6
The Primary Text Frame (replacing The
Master Text Frame in older versions of InDesign) represents the primary text flow on the master page. If you create a new document, and specify it has a primary text frame, in the new dialog box, it automatically creates that text frame on the master page. If you swap out a primary text frame with another, the application automatically ports the cheap viagra text over seamlessly to the new primary text frame.
To apply a Primary Text Frame, you can use either
of the following techniques:
- Simply select the Primary Text Frame checkbox from the New Document dialog box.
- On a master page, click on the frame icon on the top left of the frame you wish to convert to a primary text frame.
When porting over InDesign files from older versions of InDesign, the master text frame feature is greyed out. The master text frames are visible but they are not enabled so text will not flow into them. The text on your document pages will sit above the old master text frames. The simplest way to convert your master text frames from older designs is to simply create a new primary text frame from scratch.
More to come….
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Recently, I’ve been asked to highlight Ten Great InDesign Features. These features are not the most commonly used features but they do make life easier when using InDesign. The list is as follows:
Presentation mode – As the name describes, presentation mode is a full preview view similar to full screen mode in Acrobat or Microsoft Word. Press “Shift+W” to activate this function, escape to exit. Presentation mode is ideal when presenting your InDesign documents to a client. It removes all menu items and panels for a full screen view.
Arrange pages vertically/horizontally – By default, pages are set up vertically in InDesign so you have to have a very long pages panel. It was formally located under the pages panel and it looked like this feature disappeared in CS6 but it is now located view pages pop up menu. You can also make this change using alternate layout.
Links panel – People do not customize their links panel. The links panel is usually used to link graphic files stored in other directories, on either local or remote servers. Put your information right in your links panel. When you show “show in column”, page information such as resolution shows up in the links panel.
Convert shape – From the object menu, click convert shape. You can convert the shape of any object. For example, you could convert a square to a triangle.
Slug feature – The slug is an area outside the printed page where you can put information about project – time, date, client, job number, notes, registration marks, dimensions, author etc. It is very similar to the comments section in MS PowerPoint and appears outside the active area. The slug is trimmed off when you print the page out. Access the slug settings through the Document Setup menu item.
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Discretionary Hyphen is a great feature if you want to squeeze a hyphen between 2 words but you’re not sure if the content could change. The discretionary hyphen is also called a soft hyphen and ideal if you need to put a hyphen anywhere near the end of a line. If you use a regular hyphen, and the content changes, you could have a split word like discret – ionary in the middle of a line. Choose discretionary hyphen from the Type -> Insert Special Character menu item and the hyphen is automatically removed and the space closes. Alternatively, use the short cut codes Command-Shift-hyphen on MAC, Ctrl-Shift-hyphen on Windows.
Split window is a new feature is new in InDesign CS6 that takes
one window and splits it into 2 windows in the same windowpane or tab so you can look at 2 layouts at once. It makes it easier to view the different versions of your design. The split window feature is accessed through a little button on the lower left hand side of the screen – it looks like the pause button on your DVD player! Simply click on it and it splits the window into 2.
Key object – This is a new feature in InDesign CS6 but already forgotten by many. This feature comes in handy when you want to align a lot of key objects in the middle of a page. Select all the objects you want to align, then click on the key object you want the other objects to align to. And voila, all your objects align.
Auto-correct has been around for a while but not turned on by default in InDesign. It is located in preferences and you must checkbox for autocorrect. Auto correct works similar to autocorrect in MS word. This feature has been around since 2007 but people don’t use it as it is set to off by default. We’re not all English spelling experts so turn it on and leave it on!
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Amazon’s “Export to Kindle” plugin for InDesign has been updated to make it compatible across InDesign CS4 to CS6.
Amazon has just launched a Kindle plugin update for InDesign CS6 that makes publishing ebooks on the Kindle a breeze! The Kindle plugin makes it easier to convert InDesign project files (.indd and .indb) to Kindle 8 Format (KF8) allowing publishers to create books with graphics that work on all Kindle enabled devices including:
- iPad,
- iPhone, Blackberry, and Android phones
- PC,
- Mac,
- And of course, all Kindles.
The plugin allows for direct conversion of InDesign files to a format that supports KF8 and Mobi.
Amazon recommends that all content designed for the Kindle should be created using Kindle software or software with a Kindle plugin. Installing the plug-in in InDesign CS6 adds a new “Export for Kindle” menu item in the File and Book panel fly-out menu.
Adobe PDF, MS Word and other such formats use fixed form layouts which mean text, images, graphics and other content is placed at precise locations throughout the page. On the other hand, Kindle books have a flexible, free flow layout that makes them agnostic of the screen size on which they will be read. This means an enhanced reader experience across the various Kindle platforms listed above. So, as the text is increased or decreased in size, the Kindle screen will automatically adjust the content.
The plugin allows links, images,
tables, and lists (bulleted or numbered) to be embedded as well. You can then check the output of your export using the Kindle Previewer
application.
System Requirements:
- Windows XP, Vista or 7
- Intel Mac OSX 10.5 or later
- Adobe InDesign® version CS4, CS5, or CS6
Check out the “Export to Kindle” plugin for InDesign here!
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If you’re working for a non-profit, you know how guilty you feel spending money on expensive graphic designers and over the top promotional material for newsletters and fund raising event
s. You’ll be pestered as the designs go through numerous different iterations until a final layout is decided upon. So why put yourself through all this hassle when you can get simple to use, out of the box designs from indesigntemplate.com? We have plenty of ready-made templates to choose from. Or why not use one of these templates as the “Base” of the new flyer or newsletter you are working on. With our simple InDesign templates, you already have your platform so you can start building up from there. Customize the layouts to create unique brochures, flyers, ads, stationery, and more.
- Agency quality business marketing designs
- Easy-to-customize layout and graphic files with InDesign
- Print on a commercial press or office printer
- High resolution stock photos and artwork
Our non-profit templates are designed to help small associations, non-profits, clubs, and many other organizations create agency quality flyers, brochures and magazines. Check out our new non-profit templates below.
Trifold Brochure
Non Profit Newsletter
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If you’re working for a non-profit, you know how guilty you feel spending money on expensive graphic designers and over the top promotional material for newsletters and fund raising events. You’ll be pestered as the designs go through numerous different iterations until a final layout is decided upon. So why put yourself through all this hassle when you can get simple to use, out of the box designs from indesigntemplate.com? We have plenty of ready-made templates to choose from. Or why not use one of these templates as the “Base” of the new flyer or newsletter you are working on. With our simple InDesign templates, you already have your platform so you can start building up from there. Customize the layouts to create unique brochures, flyers, ads, stationery, and more.
Agency quality business marketing designs
Easy-to-customize layout and graphic files with InDesign
Print on a commercial press or office printer
High
resolution stock photos and artwork
Our non-profit templates are designed to help small associations, non-profits, clubs, and many other organizations create agency quality flyers, brochures and magazines. Check out our new non-profit templates below.
Trifold Brochure
Non Profit Newsletter
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Every non-profit is different, with varied audiences and requirements to meet. The one common denominator is that these numerous charitable organizations are vying for the same dollars. No matter what your specific layout needs are, from monthly newsletters to letters of donor appreciation or detailed progress reports, creating a unique, individual identity is crucial to succeeding. The critical factor in aiding this success is keeping layout costs to a minimum.
To that end, 3 possible solutions are available to you:
Option 1: Employ a professional graphic designer. These designers will certainly help in devising/ maintaining a unique brand identity and impressing sponsors, while bringing a level of skill and finesse to your layouts and presentations. However, this approach can be a time-consuming process, involving significant costs and substantial energy/effort investment. The end result may not be what was originally envisioned either.
Option 2: Purchase the software and take control of the layout yourself. Unless you possess the required computer skills, this will become a drawn-out process, with a difficult and steep learning curve. Having the required computer knowledge is also of very little benefit, if graphic design training is not present.
Option 3: This requires no further thought. Buy a pre-designed template from a design company like indesigntemplate.com and add your own minor customizations. The templates are affordable, but professional and crisp, resulting in a specialized, quality result. Add you own images, colors and logos to an existing non-profit template, and hey presto, almost complete. Replace the Lorem Ipsum text with your specific description/ content and the newsletter/letterhead/report etc. is complete.
If you are more experienced, the page layout can be altered to your needs. The arrangement of the text items/ images and shapes can be amended to your current and future requirements. A small investment of time and budget now can provide for your future design needs, and this route is substantially cheaper than taking Option 1 or 2 above.
For simple projects like company letterheads, personalized business cards or stationery, Adobe InDesign is the number one choice. Adobe Indesign was ultimately designed to create complex and sophisticated layouts
that were required in the magazine and newspaper industries but this can easily translate to small business needs too. Indesign is compatible with many operating systems (Mac, Windows) and can be adapted to run on Linux if necessary. Non-profits can avail of hugely-discounted versions of the software, which normally sells for $699.
At Indesigntemplate.com, we understand that non-profits need simpler tasks and less expense, not more. Indesigntemplate.com has many pre-designed templates for non-profits. Right now, we’re boasting a handful of new templates
specifically for non-profits. If you really like these (like I do), or if you’re a newsletter-template-title purist, these are for you. Most of our templates are designed for other purposes but that does not mean they cannot be used by non-profit organizations. Just like the other templates, you can edit these to match your organization’s brand or personality. In the end, by using professional looking templates, your materials will look better — and, by extension, so will your non-profit organization.
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If you’re like me, you fritter away a lot of your time searching online through pages and pages for the ideal stock photography to complete your designs on websites such as Fotolia or iStockphoto. Interchanging betwee
n InDesign layout and your web browser to compare the images on the website to the layout can be tedious – especially when you consider the additional time to download and place the images. It would be fantastic if you could do it right inside the InDesign application without having to switch back and forth to your web browser.
Well now you can! iStockphoto has just released an awesome new plugin panel for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator that lets you browse, search, purchase and download files and images from their stock collection right from within InDesign without disrupting your workflow. You can search gazillions of iStockphoto files and images right in InDesign, download multiple comps throughout the design process, finalize you graphic designs and then simply substitute the desired comp with the purchased image in exactly the right spot.
An ingenious single click comp replace feature intuitively swaps comp images with purchased images. In the process, the image is effortlessly resized and positioned within your layout or design. Crop the images, resize them and make them your own, directly from inside InDesign. The plugin is free, however, you need to have CS5 or above. How do I get the
new iStock InDesign Plug-in?
To use the iStockphoto Adobe Plug-in, simply:
- Ensure you have Adobe Creative Suite 5 or higher for PC or Mac
- Download the new app here! http://www.istockphoto.com/participate/tools-apps
- Click “Install iStock Plug-in” from above
- Open the downloaded file using the most up-to-date version of Adobe Extension Manager
- Enable the plug-in by selecting Window>Extensions>iStockphoto
About iStockphoto
IStockphoto offers easy, affordable inspiration with millions of vetted, royalty-free photos, illustrations, video, audio and Flash® files. Using the most advanced search in the business, customers download a file every second from a collection of more than ten million files for
business, marketing and personal projects.
Rich Text AreaToolbarBold (Ctrl + B)Italic (Ctrl + I)Strikethrough (Alt + Shift + D)Unordered list (Alt + Shift + U)Ordered list (Alt + Shift + O)Blockquote (Alt + Shift + Q)Align Left (Alt + Shift + L)Align Center (Alt + Shift + C)Align Right (Alt + Shift + R)Insert/edit link (Alt + Shift + A)Unlink (Alt + Shift + S)Insert More Tag (Alt + Shift + T)Toggle spellchecker (Alt + Shift + N)▼
Toggle fullscreen mode (Alt + Shift + G)Show/Hide Kitchen Sink (Alt + Shift + Z)Insert ShortcodeInsert WooThemes Shortcode
FormatFormat▼
UnderlineAlign Full (Alt + Shift + J)Select text color▼
Paste as Plain TextPaste from WordRemove formattingInsert custom characterOutdentIndentUndo (Ctrl + Z)Redo (Ctrl + Y)Help (Alt + Shift + H)
If you’re like me, you fritter away a lot of your time searching online through pages and pages for the ideal stock photography to complete your designs on websites such as Fotolia or iStockphoto. Interchanging between InDesign layout and your web browser to compare the images on the website to the layout can be tedious – especially when you consider the additional time to download and place the images. It would be fantastic if you could do it right inside the InDesign application without having to switch back and forth to your web browser.
Well now you can! iStockphoto has just released an awesome new plugin panel for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator that lets you browse, search, purchase and download files and images from their stock collection right from within InDesign without disrupting your workflow. You can search gazillions of iStockphoto files and images right in InDesign, download multiple comps throughout the design process, finalize you graphic designs and then simply substitute the desired comp with the purchased image in exactly the right spot.
An ingenious single click comp replace feature intuitively swaps comp images with purchased images. In the process, the image is effortlessly resized and positioned within your layout or design. Crop the images, resize them and make them your own, directly from inside InDesign. The plugin is free, however, you need to have CS5 or above. How do I get the new iStock InDesign Plug-in?
To use the iStockphoto Adobe Plug-in, simply:
Ensure you have Adobe Creative Suite 5 or higher for PC or Mac
Download the new app here! http://www.istockphoto.com/participate/tools-apps
Click “Install iStock Plug-in” from above
Open the downloaded file using the most up-to-date version of Adobe Extension Manager
Enable the plug-in by selecting Window>Extensions>iStockphoto
About iStockphoto
IStockphoto offers easy, affordable inspiration with millions of vetted, royalty-free photos, illustrations, video, audio and Flash® files. Using the most advanced search in the business, customers download a file every second from a collection of more than ten million files for business, marketing and personal projects.
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Besides being an extremely time-consuming process, graphic designing involves substantial costs and great efforts without any guarantee that the end product would be what you had in mind. This is why more and more people are using pre-built templates, designed by experts using the latest InDesign software. There are many advantages in using InDesign templates among which five stand out prominently:
1. Reduce Costs
You could hire a publishing firm or a freelance graphic designer to create brochures from scratch at a hefty fee or you could purchase an InDesign template at a fraction of the cost and customize the template yourself in minutes. It goes without saying that the cost involved in purchasing ready-made designs is much lower than what it would involve to have one specially designed by a professional agency.
2. Save Time
If you need a brochure or flyer, it can take weeks from hiring the right firm or graphic designer to completing the design. It takes time, trial-and-error runs and a number of frustrating attempts to communicate your idea clearly enough before you hit the “right” design. With InDesign templates, all you need to prepare is the text that you will incorporate in the design of the flyers. Our templates feature a highly organized layout for easy customization. All the donkey work’s already been done by us so you spend the minimum time necessary to complete your brochure from its “almost there’ state. Our templates are finished design files that include high-resolution stock photos and illustrations.
3. Enhance Productivity
InDesign Templates can enhance productivity, allowing members of your team to focus on the content without the need to change the
formatted layout. Because you don’t need to start from scratch you are free to unleash your creativity to the maximum. As many templates allow you to move around, replace and change almost every component, you can have a unique brochure or flyer in no time, with a few clicks of the mouse.
4. Source of Inspiration
You might have heard “Real designers don’t use templates” or, “Templates are a substitute for real design” but buy cialis online every graphic designer will at some stage suffer from creative block. We’ve all stared at blank pieces of paper or blank screens at least one time in our lives. A template can be a great starting point to get the creative juices flowing. They can give you ideas and start you on the road to laying out your own original masterpiece. There are many ways to personalize templates without sacrificing the benefits of speed, variety, and consistency.
5. You know what the finished product will look like
Eliminate the uncertainty associated with starting the design process from scratch. With InDesign templates, you can see what the final design will look like right from the outset. With InDesign templates, you can simply select the most suitable template and customize the content to suit your needs, from simple one-page flyers to complex, multi-columned, and multi-article magazine layouts. This is an amazing feat considering that the former process might take weeks to capture and translate into reality what you had in your imagination; and even then, it might not look exactly as you would have wanted it to be.
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First of all, what is an
Indesign Template? An InDesign template is a file that contains standing elements for use in each issue. InDesign templates help save time because you do no have to place these elements every time you create a new issue. Templates also help keep the publication’s style consistent. Note, InDesign templates only work in InDesign. In general, any program that offers a template feature uses a proprietary file type that can’t be parsed by other programs. To edit Indesign templates, you must have indesign software.
1. Select the template you need
No matter which industry your business is in, IndesignTemplate.com have high-quality and professional-looking template for you. Browse by Category or Type.
2. Purchase your templates
All you need to do is to click the “Purchase” button next to the template you want. After purchasing, you will be sent an email with a download link.
3. Download your templates
After receiving the email, you’ll be able to download your templates immediately without having to create an account. You can download your templates as many times as you like.
4, Customize the design to make it your own
The files are fully editable as if you designed them from scratch. So go ahead, make as many changes as you like – add or replace pictures, change colors, grayscale, move, scale and crop graphic elements, change the fonts and replace the filler text with your own copy. There’s no limit – be as creative
as you like.
Inside InDesign go to file > open. In the dialog select your template file, but choose “open original” in the lower left hand corner. To edit a template, create a new file from the template, make the changes and save the file as a template. If you give it the same name and save it in the same location, InDesign will ask if you want to replace the original template or not before you can save it. If you are creating a replacement or updated template, click Yes.
5. Print it yourself or send it out
When you’re finished customizing your InDesign template, print your template on your own color printer or send the files to a commercial printer. Indesigntemplates are designed to deliver professional, high-quality color output, so they look great no matter where you have them printed.
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I’m sure there are many designers out there that are often asked to create a black and white or grayscale version PDF of an existing document. The difficult client on the other end of the phone is fussy and needs the document in grayscale pronto so they can also run the ad in the local newspaper. Before CS6, InDesign did not know what grayscale color is. A grayscale image is a duotone image that substitutes a color for black and another color for white or a negative space. You could import a grayscale image or document into CS1-CS5.5 but those older versions of InDesign don’t have the option of exporting or converting to grayscale. A number of clever hacks or work around is required in order to convert documents from color to grayscale such as creating a copy of the document, dropping in grayscale images, stripping out the colors and replace with tints
of black, carefully balancing them as needed; or saving
as color, exporting to Acrobat and converting there. But this can be a nightmare, especially if you have hundreds of pages to convert.
In earlier versions of InDesign, you could run the image through InDesign’s transparency flattener, set the image opacity to 99.9% in the transparency palette and output to a flattened format. Since the remaining .1% of the image not detectable, this allowed InDesign to convert the image to grayscale without sacrificing the quality of the image. However, simply stripping off the color information often yields results that are very low in contrast with poor quality imagery.
Another option is to create the document in InDesign then export the file to Photoshop to convert. In Photoshop, the user can save the document in a format that supports grayscale mode—a TIFF, JPEG, or PNG However, this involves the user to purchase a second piece of software.
InDesign users could also print to a grayscale printer but this often results less control and a substantial loss of quality. Other solutions include exporting the EPS and then distilling, using 3rd party software etc.… The list of work arounds is endless but they all take time or result in a loss of quality.
Designers and publishers really needed an efficient way to convert from color to grayscale when the client changes their mind. In CS6, you can preview a color layout in Gray scale on the screen, and then export to a gray scale PDF right from InDesign. All page items, irrespective of their original color space, are converted to grayscale while exporting to PDF. The digital publication remains full color, and you can avoid maintaining separate layouts for grayscale and color outputs. To convert to grayscale:
- Select File > Export and select Adobe PDF (Print).
- In the export options dialog box, click the Output tab.
- Under Color Conversion, choose Convert To Destination.
- Under Destination, choose a Dot Gain or Gray Gamma destination.
Editing photos and images in InDesign is easier and faster than working in Photoshop, and it offers more flexibility and freedom for experimentation and adjustment so the introduction of the grayscale feature in InDesign CS6 is a welcome addition.
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Super Step & Repeat:
Alt-Shift/Option-Shift drag an object to make a copy. But before you release the mouse, press either right arrow or up arrow to make additional copies between the existing objects.
Frame Fitting:
To fit a frame to a graphic: Double-click a corner of the frame (or Cmd-Opt-C / Ctrl-Alt-C.) This also works with text frames.
Resizing Content in a Frame:
The set of shortcuts for fitting an image to a frame is also useful, and with it you can easily adapt content the way you want. To keep the frame the same size and fit the content proportionally, press Command + Option + Shift + E. (Note that if the image and frame have different proportions, then some white space will be left.)
To fill the frame proportionally, use Command + Option + Shift + C. (If the image and frame have different proportions, then the image will be resized and end up larger than the frame, being cropped the edges.)
To center the content in the frame, use Command + Shift + E. And if you want the image to stay the same and resize the frame instead, then fit the frame to the content with Command + Option + C.
Selecting Frames:
Selecting the top frame is easy, but if a lot of frames are overlapping or one is on top of the other, you can cycle through them by holding Command on Mac and Control on Windows and then clicking on the frames to select the lower one. Keep clicking to cycle through them if you have several frames.
Live Distribute:
Select multiple objects (frames or lines) that are in a row and then click a side handle of one of the outermost objects. Hold down the spacebar and drag the handle to increase/decrease space between objects vertically or horizontally. Or, drag a corner handle to distribute the space between objects diagonally.
Gridify:
To create a grid of objects, start drawing a new object and before you release the mouse, press the right arrow or up arrow to add rows and columns of objects. To increase/decrease space between them, press Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (PC) right or up arrow while drawing. To finish, release the mouse.
Live Corner Effects:
Click the yellow square on the right side of any frame to activate Live Corners. Drag a yellow diamond to increase/decrease the corner effect. Opt/Alt-click the yellow diamond to cycle through the other corner styles. Opt/Alt-Shift-click to change just one corner.
Placing multiple images:?Choose File>Place. Select one or more images to place.
Your cursor will show a thumbnail of the first image. Click on the page to place one image at a time.??Options:?-When the cursor is loaded with multiple images, press the left or right arrow key to cycle through the images. ?-Press Esc to delete an image without placing it.?-To place all the graphics in a grid of frames, Cmd+Shift-click (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift-click (PC) and drag to create the grid.?-To add rows or columns to the grid, press the right or up arrow key before you release the mouse.
Replacing one image with another:
Choose File> Place to select an image. Then Option (Mac) or Alt (PC) click on an existing image on the layout you’d like to replace with the new one.
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