Stop Unembeddable Font Warnings
Despite the near impossibility of extracting embedded fonts from PDFs, some type foundries still prevent their fonts from being embedded in PDFs. While that choice is certainly the type designer’s …
How to Not Lose Italics and Bold
When a little plus sign appears next to an entry on the Paragraph Style palette, designers want to clear that plus sign. Doing so, however, wipes away desired local text formatting as well as undesired. That is, unless you apply italics, bold, and other formatting the smart way.
Resize Text and Text Frames in One Step
Ever want to resize text as well as the frame? Of course you do, from time to time. It’s easy: Press and hold CMD (Mac) or CTRL (Windows) and then …
Sort InDesign Menus Alphabetically
Sometimes you know the name of a command but just can’t seem to find it in the menu. Conveniently (quirkily?) InDesign allows you to re-order menu commands alphabetically. On Windows hold …
Sort InCopy Menus Alphabetically
Sometimes you know the name of a command but just can’t seem to find it in the menu. Conveniently (quirkily?) InCopy allows you to re-order menu commands alphabetically. On Windows hold …
Fix Tool Keyboard Shortcuts
A long time ago, in a valley far, far away, Adobe Acrobat had one-button keyboard shortcuts to common tools. Much like cousins Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and most other Adobe applications, pressing …
Instant New Document without New Document Dialog
Just need to quickly create a new document using the default options? Press CMD+OPT+N/CTRL+ALT+N. Start typing. New document, no dialog.
Select Color Range Preview Toggle
In Photoshop, Select > Color Range allows you to create a selection based on sampled colors. In the Color Range window you see a greyscale preview indicating the level of selection–which is …
Align or Distribute Relative to the Key Object
The Align palette has an array of buttons to align and distribute a group of objects. You can line up all their top edges, bottom edges, left or right edges; center …
Ugh! I Should Have Done That on a Master Page!
One of the really nice things about InDesign is its liberal policy of undo/redo. It invites experimentation. Ever experiment yourself into wishing you’d started on a master page instead of a document …