Archive for January, 2008



Adobe Photoshop PSD files inside InDesign PDFs: What happens?

Adobe InDesign allows you to place Adobe Photoshop (.psd) files directly into page layouts. But what happens when you export that layout to a PDF? Does it retain any of the Photoshop file characteristics? Here’s the deal:

As long as you use PDF v1.4 or higher, it uses the same transparency model as Photoshop, so it […]

InDesign CS3: Black Prints as Gray

Mark recently wrote in with a problem he was having in InDesign CS3.  The color black printed out slightly more grayish than he was anticipating.  He is using Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) but the problem and solution are the same on Windows XP and Vista as well as when using InDesign CS or CS2.  Mark’s […]

InDesign CS3 and Macworld 2008

It’s that time of year again, Macworld time.  It’s a fun and exciting time in the desktop publishing world, especially as this world is increasingly becoming a “Mac World”.   Mac’s have long reigned supreme in the world of graphics, typography and layout and with each passing year the excitement continues to grow.
As a lead up […]

Print to Web - Is it worth it?

There is a pretty interesting conversion going on over at PrintPlanet about Print to Web. It’s not specifically about InDesign, but I figure many of you InDesign folks out there may be interested in this.
In a sense, print to web is kind of ANTI-InDesign, since it’s basically just form data that gets plugged into templates […]