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 …
Importing Text from Microsoft Word in Adobe Illustrator
More and more lately, Illustrator users are being asked to include passages, sometimes multiple pages of, text in documents. That textual content often comes from writers and editors using Microsoft …
Threading and Unthreading Text Objects in Adobe Illustrator
InDesign isn’t the only Adobe application used for paragraphs of text. Illustrator, too, can handle lots of text. It can put all that text into an Area Type object, and, …
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 …
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 …
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Putting Images Inside Type in Adobe Illustrator
Filling type with imagery is easy and can produce stunning type. In this tutorial clip you’ll learn how to put an image inside type and how to reposition that image …