Archive for July, 2007



Change Text Frame Shapes in InDesign

Circles not fancy enough for you? Luckily InDesign gives you lots of control when creating text frames so you don’t have to be confined to text boxes. One great way of manipulating the shape of text frames is to use the patherfinder tool. The pathfinder tool allows you to combine shapes in […]

Make Circular Text Frames in InDesign

Text boxes are great. They allow better layout and work nicely to group text into objects. The normal Text Box works great for 95% of any layout you’re going to do, but what about that other 5%? Well, that’s what this week’s articles are on; text frames and how to liven […]

Begin an InDesign Document with a Left Handed Page

They are many reasons you might want to begin an InDesign document with a left handed page. For example, you are putting together printer spreads for a cover design. You need four pages: a Front Cover, Back Cover, Inside Front Cover, and Inside Back Cover. You are going to want spreads, but when you create […]

Free Tech Support for Adobe CS2 ends this week

Adobe’s long standing support policy has been to give free tech support for current products + 90 days. Basically you have free support while you own the most current version and then you get a grace period of 90 days, after the release of the next version of the product. CS3 was released […]