Feb. 1, 2010
Join Adobe in a dynamic live presentation to REFRESH your understanding of the most recent initiatives in the areas of content creation, collaboration and distribution.
The Adobe team will showcase the recent announcements including the iPhone developments using the upcoming Flash Professional CS5 as well as showing you how you can build applications faster with Flash Catalyst, LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 and much more. You will also hear Adobe’s most recent announcements from Max 09 and be shown the latest software tools available from Adobe.
Perth - 11th February (full no more registrations being accepted)
Brisbane - 16th February
Auckland - 18th February
Sydney - 23rd February
Melbourne - 25th February
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Sep. 11, 2009
Did you know, you can decide what you see in the control panel?
Most people overlook this, but there is a little symbol on the far right side of the control panel that looks the same as you would see in any panel InDesign. Commonly known as the drop down/flyout/pull down (breath) menu. It’s the one with the down facing triangle with three horizontal lines next to it. If you select it, a menu will appear with loads of different options. Take a good look: you may find something useful there. To customize the control panel choose “Customize…”
From here you can control what appears under each of the five categories (Object, Character, Paragraph, Tables, Other). It can save you a lot of time if the control panel is set up to give you what you need quickly. Try it out!
For more information on this topic via Adobe help click here.
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Jul. 23, 2009
Where have my menu items gone… am I going crazy?
It doesn’t matter how experienced you are in InDesign this one will get you at one time or another. If you’re in the habit of using the built in workspaces, you may find that a few of your menu items disappear. For example, if I change over to the interactivity workspace and then go to View > Overprint Preview, it’s not there…
This is because you can customise menu items and then save those customisations into a workspace. If you want your hidden menu items to appear again, go to the bottom of the menu item and choose “Show All Menu Items”. All the hidden menu items now appear. If you leave the menu and then come back again later, you will need to do this same process over again. To avoid this and reveal your menu items permanently, go to Window > Workspace > Show Full Menus or go to the workspace switcher in the control panel and choose Show Full Menus. Now all your menu items will always be visible for your current work space.
For more information on this topic via Adobe help click here.
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Jun. 17, 2009
Before we dive in too deep, we need this tip…
This video tutorial explains where in InDesign the interactive features are found. It also shows you the built in workspace for working with interactivity.
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Jun. 3, 2009
A quick way to get rid of the distractions and view bleed on the page…
If you’ve ever wanted to get a clear look at your design without all the distracting ruler guides and margins, then you need to go into Preview mode. There are four preview modes available when viewing your document page, Normal, Preview, Bleed and Slug. “Normal” is how you’ve always previewed your document pages, with all the ruler guides and margins visible. “Preview” removes all the ruler guides and margins from view giving you a clear look at your design so you can accurately conceptualize how the design is looking. “Bleed” and “Slug” do the same as “Preview’ with the addition of the document bleed or slug now being visible.
To access your preview mode simply press “W” on your keyboard. By default when you press “W” you will toggle between “Normal” and “Preview” modes. If you want to access the other preview modes you need to locate the preview icon at the very bottom of the tool panel. If you click and hold for a second, a menu will appear where you can specify which mode you want. Once you select that mode from the tool panel, it will be set as the default preview mode when you use the keyboard shortcut “W”.
If you have trouble remembering to check for bleed within a document, you really should set “Bleed” as your default preview mode (as well as using InDesign CS4’s new Preflight feature). With bleed as your preview mode you can quickly scan over the page edges and drag out any images for frames that should be bleeding off the page.
For more information on this topic via Adobe help click here.
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Aug. 29, 2008
If your manager asks, I didn’t show you this…
When deadline is near and your heart is pounding under the stress, feeling as if it’s going to burst, the lapse of every second adding another tonne of weight upon your already crumbling shoulders, your eyes burning more with every new detail, your mind about to explode in concentration, InDesign is there beckoning to take away all your troubles…
Go to the “InDesign” menu and choose “About InDesign”. Type the word “butterfly”. Now take out all that frustration on those innocent little butterflies. Once click pins ‘em to the screen… Option click kills ‘em…
Everyone deserves a break once in a while, right?
Video Instructions (all videos are quicktime movies): 1. Click on the “CLICK HERE TO WATCH TUTORIAL” hyperlink, a new window appears, once the video has downloaded completely (speed varies depending on internet connection) the video will commence. 2. Right click on the “CLICK HERE TO WATCH TUTORIAL” hyperlink and choose “DOWNLOAD LINKED FILE AS” to save the video to your computer. Once downloaded open the .mov file in Quicktime to watch. 3. Subscribe to the creativementor.com.au now Podcast through iTunes.
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Aug. 5, 2008
A friend and long time InDesign user came to me last week and said “I find it so frustrating that I can’t toggle through my open InDesign documents without having to go up to the window menu. I wish Adobe could give me a shortcut to do this”. It got me thinking. How many other everyday InDesign users possibly don’t know that there’s a keyboard shortcut to do exactly that? It’s so convenient I thought I would share it with everyone.
If you choose Command & ~ (Mac) or Control & ~ (PC) you will find yourself toggling gracefully through all your open documents. That’s one for the memory bank!
Video Instructions (all videos are quicktime movies): 1. Click on the “CLICK HERE TO WATCH TUTORIAL” hyperlink, a new window appears, once the video has downloaded completely (speed varies depending on internet connection) the video will commence. 2. Right click on the “CLICK HERE TO WATCH TUTORIAL” hyperlink and choose “DOWNLOAD LINKED FILE AS” to save the video to your computer. Once downloaded open the .mov file in Quicktime to watch. 3. Subscribe to the creativementor.com.au now Podcast through iTunes.
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Jun. 18, 2008
Get the most viewing area from your screen
When designing, I always look for ways to get more viewing area on my screen. I’ll hide my dock (on a Mac), maximize screen resolution, and make the document window as big as I can. Indesign also has inbuilt interface options for hiding some, or even all of your panels, allowing you to get the most viewing area out of your screen. Let’s take a look.
If you press “Tab” on the keyboard, all the panels on the left and right sides of the screen disappear, including the Tool bar and Control Panel, however the Menu bar remains. If you want to bring all the panels back press “Tab” again, and they will appear.
If you feel that you are pressing tab all the time to hide and reveal the panels, there is another option available once you have hidden your panels. You simply hover your mouse over the far left or right side of the screen where the panels are normally displayed, and they spontaneously reappear. You can proceed with any necessary changes within a panel, and when done, the panel hides itself again. If you would like to bring all the panels back permanently press “Tab” once more.
You may want to hide your panels and keep the Tool bar and Control panel, if so press “Shift” “Tab”. Now all the panels on the right disappear and the Tool bar and Control panel remain. If you want to access the panels on the right of the screen you can hover over the far right of the screen and they will reappear. To bring all the panels back permanently press “Tab” again.
Video Instructions (all videos are quicktime movies): 1. Click on the “CLICK HERE TO WATCH TUTORIAL” hyperlink, a new window appears, once the video has downloaded completely (speed varies depending on internet connection) the video will commence. 2. Right click on the “CLICK HERE TO WATCH TUTORIAL” hyperlink and choose “DOWNLOAD LINKED FILE AS” to save the video to your computer. Once downloaded open the .mov file in Quicktime to watch. 3. Subscribe to the creativementor.com.au now Podcast through iTunes.
