Tag: InDesign
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Tips for Working with Multiple Records Per Page: InDesign Data Merge & VDP
Now that you know the fundamentals of merging to multiple records per page, here are important details and tips to make your work easier and more creative. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC: Data Merge & Variable Data Printing: http://abbrv.it/vidIDVDP
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Opening Multiple Views of the Same Document for Design and Proofing – InDesign Tip of the Week
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Changing Preview Mode’s Background Color – InDesign Tip of the Week
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Preparing Data Sources, Part 2: Structuring Data for InDesign
Special codes and symbols in data sources, even something as simple as a comma or quotation mark, need special handling to function in InDesign’s Data Merge. Problems with Data Merge almost always come down to something isn’t formatted properly in the Data Source. Pay close attention to this clip to prevent errors and show-stopping issues…
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Getting Creative with Variable Text in InDesign
Variable text doesn’t have to be plain or boring. Anything you can do to text in InDesign, you can do to merged text. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC: Data Merge & Variable Data Printing: http://abbrv.it/vidIDVDP
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Fixing Corrupt InDesign Documents – InDesign Tip of the Week
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InDesign CC Data Merge and Variable Data Printing
From simple form letters and mailing labels to personalized children’s books and ebooks, from catalogs to yearbooks, from batch-created business cards to direct mailers that make recipients’ names and past purchases part of the artwork, InDesign’s Data Merge lets you and your clients easily incorporate Variable Data Printing (VDP), automated document generation from InDesign templates,…
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Colorizing Black and White Photos in InDesign
In this tutorial, a free lesson from the Pluralsight video course, Designing in Duotone in InDesign by Pariah Burke (http://abbrv.it/vidIDDuotone), you will learn how to colorize black and white photos directly in InDesign, replacing the monotone greyscale with another color for visually appealing non-black monotone or in preparation for duotone. This technique works with all…
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Exporting from InDesign CC to JPEG, Interactive PDF, and Publish Online
This free lesson snippet from the Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC Designing a Flyer by Pariah Burke (http://abbrv.it/vidIDFlyer) will teach you how to export one or more pages from an InDesign document to… JPG or PNG images for posting to Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and More to Interactive PDF for posting to your website or sending…
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Editing Original in Batch – InDesign Tip of the Week