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These are the coolest shapes you’ll ever find inside InDesign

Sometimes using a highlighted effect text gives a stronger emphasis and style to your design. In this quick tip we are going to achieve that effect by utilizing Paragraph Rules in Adobe InDesign. Let’s begin!

Step 1: Insert text
Create a new…

This is a workflow I use almost everytime I import a Word file that someone sends me. Every InDesign user should know this.

The annual Print + ePublishing Conference comes to San Francisco, and a new InDesignSecretsLive event premieres in New York City!

From Cthulhu to InDesign eBooks, this list of links has it all!

A new, free script from Automatication (Martinho da Gloria) lets you run orphaned older Javascripts in the current version of InDesign

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Interview with Chris Kitchener, InDesign Senior Product Manager

Thoughts on CS “Next”
New releases: …

How to move an inline graphic out of the text flow.

Answering one of the most commonly-asked questions: How to change the ruler values and have them stay changed?!

Through the use of zero leading, you can make text in separate paragraphs appear on the same line. You can use this idea to solve some tricky formatting problems in a TOC.

Lots of new InDesign videos, tips, articles, and links, including information about CS6 upgrades.

If you find a script that is just text (not a downloadable file), how do you install it?

When a reader changes Document Setup, nothing happens! Here’s one common reason this might happen.

Hey, just a quick note to let you know that you can get 30% off Blatner Tools or Power Styles from DTP Tools until February 15 if you use the code 12IDSECRETS30 when you check out at dtptools.com.
(For those who don’t know: Power Styles is a sub…

How to lose formatting (or maintain it) when copying the data

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Layer Tricks!

Stacking, dragging, show/hide layout objects
Dragging objects from one group to anothe…

Did you know you can create guides that are shorter than the width or height of your page? Here’s how!

While you’re waiting for the InDesign team to add a Clear All button to Find/Change, use this tip.

Folding, indexing, epubbing, templates, and tips! You gotta’ check out these great new year InDesign articles and videos

Mini Bridge opens up within InDesign just like a panel. Mini Bridge doesn’t hold all the capabilities Adobe Bridge does, instead it operates efficiently by navigating and working with linked files. During this tut we are going to explore the po…

Here’s a tip with zome “zip”: combine InDesign FX with Type on a Path to create a zipper effect.

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2012 PePConference update: John McWade (Before & After) added to speaker list
InDesign wishlists fo…

Learn how features in InDesign CS5.5 make exporting accessible PDFs far easier than ever before!

A (thankfully) easy solution to an often frustrating InDesign problem!

Your first script runs just fine; but what if you run it by accident? Find out how to add a user friendly One-Step-Undo-All!

Happy holidays from all of us at InDesignSecrets. Here are some excellent gift links you can unwrap.

Consider this part 2 in the series ‘working with text on a tinted background’!

You don’t have to link to external graphics files; you can embed them! But do you want to?

Keith takes a “deep dive” into the “Copy Links To” command and reveals some details that you might not know!

Unthreaded text frames, filled with a colour and a single line of capitalized text that is both horizontally and vertically centered.

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2012 PePConference news; secret goodies for early early registrants
Interview with Matthew Diener, editor …

Traditionally designers would check their layouts manually for errors by using a host of different menus or panels. Commonly known as Preflight, this process has now been turned on its head by the introduction of Live Preflight to InDesign. This featu…

mt.importer is a great way to convert MathType to editable InDesign equations

You know you want to learn how to script InDesign, but you don’t know where to start. Start here!

Need to change InDesign’s UI language, but you’re using Lion? Try this new version!

Guest presenter Bob Levine shows how to use the new Overlay Creator panel to build interactive content, such as pan and zoom, html content, and slide shows

A bit of this and a bit of that… pretty soon, this information really starts to add up!

Osaka, Japan — Recosoft Corporation, the developer of the PDF2Office® family of products ships PDF2ID Enterprise 2012. PDF2ID Enterprise is a scalable PDF-to-InDesign and PDF-to-IDML conversion solution allowing hundreds of thousands of PDFs to…

Everyone wants to change Actual Size to something other than 100%. Here’s how!

Quick Apply is a feature that holds the ability to allow an InDesign user to save time when accessing styles, commands, scripts and features. The Quick Apply panel is a shortcut to everything InDesign offers.Find out more about this handy feature at t…

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New sister site: ePubSecrets.com!
All about the new KindleFire tablet from Amazon
Creating accessible …

How to use the Scripts Label panel to add notes to objects

It’s worth learning a few fundamental lessons when organizing your files for a publication.

Live captions are perfect for adding descriptions to images placed within an InDesign document. InDesign uses the metadata from an imported file and generates a text frame. For example, if you have a contact sheet set up from an image library you can …

We have over 1,500 free articles about InDesign here; check these ones out!

You’ve created file name captions for your pictures, but you don’t want those icky file type extensions? Here’s how to make them disappear!

Ever wonder why some of your page numbers in the index panel are surrounded by parentheses? Read this to discover why.

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News: Anne-Marie’s Las Vegas recap, Podcast survey results, Goodie boxes
Interview with Josh Nguni, Namibia’s InD…

Here’s a quick tip on rotating text inside a cell, and positioning it just right.