Jul. 3, 2008
There’s a direct way to edit your graphics in their native applications right from the page
If you’re in the habit of using edit original directly from the links panel or via the contextual menu, you may be interested to know you can do the exact same thing from directly within your page. The trick is to select the graphic with the “Selection Tool”, then hold “Option” on Mac or “Alt” on PC, and then double click the graphic. InDesign then opens the graphic inside its native application.
If you try to select multiple images and try this same trick, it won’t work. Unfortunately it only works for one graphic at a time. Hopefully one day Adobe will add this functionality to InDesign…
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Posted by Neil Oliver in Graphics | 1 Comment
Jul. 2, 2008
Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update
Mac users will be pleased to hear Apple has released a new version of Leopard. The Mac OS X 10.5.4 update is highly recommended for all Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, and 10.5.3 Leopard users. It includes general operating system improvements all round, it addresses issues including stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.
This new update goes a long way to fixing some incompatibility issues found between Apple and the Creative Suite too. You can find detailed info released from Apple on the update here. All Adobe users, you can find information on how this update has improved the Creative Suite here.
InDesign and InCopy 5.0.3 Update
For all InDesign and InCopy users, Adobe has released a new 5.0.3 update. You can download it via the Adobe Updater or directly from Adobe’s website here. Adobe has also published release notes on the update which can be found here.
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Jul. 1, 2008
Just because you think you can’t doesn’t mean there’s not a solution
When you’re moving objects from one layer to another you have a few options that you might like to try. If you have locked and hidden layers and you want to move an object to one of these locked or hidden layers, you don’t need to unlock the locked layer or reveal the hidden layer. Simply drag the object from its existing layer to the desired locked or hidden layer holding down “Command” on Mac or “Control” on PC. Now your object is on its correct layer despite the fact the layer was locked or hidden, and you didn’t need to take the extra step of unlocking the locked layer or revealing the hidden layer.
If you are wanting to duplicate an object from one layer to another, you select the object on the original layer, hold “Option” on Mac or “Alt” on PC, then drag the object from the current layer to the layer you’re wanting to copy the objects to. If you’re trying to duplicate the objects to a locked or hidden layer you will need to add the same “Command” key into the mix as previous, so to duplicate objects to a locked or hidden layer the shortcuts are “Command + Option” on Mac or “Control + Alt” on PC.
Now if you have many layers and want to view the contents of a particular layer and hide the others while you do so, you don’t need to manually turn layers on and off. You hold “Option” on Mac or “Alt” on PC and the click on the eyeball of the layer your wanting to view, now all other layers are hidden. To bring them back “Option” on Mac or “Alt” on PC and click the same eyeball once more.
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