BLOG CHANGE FOR AUTOMATING INDESIGN
As of today, Monday, June 17, Adobe changes the way we will be working with InDesign and the rest of the Creative Suite. It is now CC, not CS5 or CS6. To keep in step with this change, we say goodbye to CS6 and look forward to working with the Creative Cloud (CC). The whole […]
PLACEHOLDER TEXT FOR INCOPY USERS
In last week’s post we explored one way you could make the transition to using InCopy as the text editor of choice for your users. It involved using a simple script to access files from a pre-determined common folder. The simple act of being able to use a keyboard shortcut to access a file instead […]
INCOPY ASSIGNMENT WORKFLOW_PART 1
It has been said that there is nothing that people fear more than change. This is especially true when it comes to a change in a production workflow. Consider a workflow where copywriters and editors use their text editor of choice (not InCopy). When you assign a story to a copywriter the only criteria may […]
ADOBE INCOPY COMING TO CREATIVE CLOUD
Creative Cloud and CC Apps If you tuned into Adobe MAX you were made aware of the new generation of Adobe applications (CC) that will soon be available from the Creative Cloud. It’s an exciting time to be a graphic designer as change and innovation is happening at such a rapid pace. Keeping up with […]
GOT FRACTIONS?
If you are painstakingly formatting fractions—-numerator(s) over virgule followed by denominator(s)—-listen up. You have several options for taking the work out of this workflow, especially if you are using Open Type fonts. USING GLYPHS Many fonts such as Minion Pro and Caslon Pro include common fractions such as 1/4, 1/2, 1/3, 5/8, and 7/8 as […]
NEW DOCUMENT SCRIPT
With all that is new coming to InDesign and the rest of the Creative Suite (now Creative Cloud) we will be turning our attention to tips and tricks for working with some of the new features. But first, before we close the door on our script for creating a new document, we might think of […]
ADOBE MAX NEWS FLASH
Adobe MAX In case you have not been following what is going on at Adobe MAX, the Creative Cloud took center stage today. During today’s keynote address, Adobe announced a major set of updates to the Creative Cloud, as well as a new generation of desktop applications which will be available exclusively to Creative Cloud […]
SCRIPTING NEW DOCUMENT _ CREATE DOCUMENT AND SAVE
With this blog we will polish off our script to automate the creation of a new document for print. At this point, we have the following functionality: Get a list of document presets that are for print intent and the name does not start with a specified string (getPresets subroutine). The specified string is defined […]
SCRIPTING NEW DOCUMENT_USER PREFERENCES
In the last two blogs we have started a script to automate the creation of a new document. When complete the script is designed to allow the user to choose a number of options from a custom dialog. The values returned will be used to automatically create a new document. Among the values to be […]
SCRIPTING NEW DOCUMENTS_IMPORTSTYLES
When you create a new document there are five major steps you most likely will take: Create new document, preferably using a document preset Select style sheet from which to import styles Import text styles from the style sheet Import object styles from the style sheet Import table styles from the style sheet In the […]