by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign This must rank as the number one most confusing feature in InDesign, because it does the opposite of what most people expect it to do. TL;DR When both commands are enabled, InDesign manages, or shuffles, the pages and spreads for you. When the commands are disabled, you […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign You can’t round the corners of a table with a stroke around it in Adobe InDesign CC, so how can you achieve this look? One answer is to put the table into a graphic frame, and round the corners of the frame. Need a few more details? Here […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign CC Today one of my Advanced InDesign students asked how to add the last page number of his document to his running head. Instead of just using 1, 2, 3 for the page numbers, he wanted 1 of 10, 2 of 10, 3 of 10, etc. […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign CC One my of Introduction to Adobe InDesign students asked me how she could add an overlay to her images to help text placed on top pop. Her brand guide specified two different techniques: an overall darkening, and a gradient that fades to transparency. Here you […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign This question came up in class the other day. Most of my students understand when and why to define left, right and first line indents—but what in the world is a “last line right indent” and when might you use it? I think of the last line […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign CC Updated Mar 17, 2016 From a past Rocky Mountain Training student: Hi Barb, I am trying to set up my graphic box defaults so that every time I create one, the text wrap will always stay at 0 inches on all four sides. I tried the […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign Updated Jan 29. 2024 InDesign has a robust set of numbering tools, but most users don’t do much more than set up basic numbered lists. Yesterday, in my Advanced Adobe InDesign class, a student asked how to number her chapters, subheads, tables and figures. It can be […]
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by Barb Binder Back in the day, if you wanted a frame with just one or two rounded corners in Adobe InDesign, you either had to be pretty darn good with the Pen tool or you poked around the obscure Scripts panel long enough to locate the CornerEffects script in the Applications folder. Anyone on CS4 […]
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