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The InDesign Swatches panel includes four undeletable swatches: None, Black, Paper, and Registration. The purpose of the first three is obvious. You probably know not to use Registration for any object to appear on the printed page, but do you know why?
The Registration color prints on every ink plate. In CMYK, that means anything with [...]

1. open a new document with the following settings.

2. when you create the layout split it into 3 parts
- the frontpage of the brochure should be divided into: 97 mm/ 100mm/100mm.
- divide also the backpage into: 100 mm/ 100 mm/ 97 mm.
doing this you will create a brochure that will fold (the backpage and [...]

For an interesting effect, you can make one image look as if it�??s inside multiple
frames:

1. Place the image in a circular frame.

2. Use Edit > Step and Repeat to create a row of frames.

3. Using the Direct Selection tool, shift-click to select each image

4. Using the Alignment controls in the Control
Palette, align first the top [...]

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i’ve been writing you for some time now about how you can use text wrap in indesign.
and now, because some of you asked for this… i’d like to get into that in more detail
here’s how you can wrap some text on a nonregular formed object using indesign.
it’s a 6 steps tutorial which goes [...]

some days ago i’ve wrote you a post on how to import excel charts in indesign and how to import excel tables in indesign.
now… i’m sure you find yourself quite used to getting the images and text supplied from customers are in MS word formats.
and inserting them within layouts with simple copy paste operation [...]

do you struggle with pictures with useless names like P1010002.jpg?
indesign bridge can rename all your pictures at once in the blink of an eye using batch rename.
select in bridge the images you want to rename and choose tools > batch rename.

then use the fields in the middle to construct your new file name [...]

so… we are already enjoing our cs3 experience. here’s some of the cool features in indesign cs3:
1. enhancements to the transparency palette (each element can have its transparency adjusted independently, including fill, stroke and text).
can you imagine this kind of flexibility in the layout?

2. ability to apply live effects to objects, always in the [...]

have you tried this new thing?
unlike quarkXPress, indesign can link text frames when both frames contain text.
when you use this indesign tool, the stories in the text frames are merged into a single story.
and here’s the tipest of the tips:
if the text in the first text frame did not end with a carriage return (the [...]

some time ago, i’ve written you a tip for text wrap in indesign.
i’m going to give you some more tips on working with indesign text wrap:

to wrap text around the shape of an imported graphic, save the clipping path in the application in which you created it, and then select apply photoshop clipping path in [...]