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Batch Apply XMP ALT Tags to EPUB and HTML Images

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0) 
By Anne-Marie Concepcion at InDesignsecrets.com

EPUB and HTML exports are more accessible with descriptive ALT tags you can apply with CS5.5′s Object Export Options. This script adds the missing “Apply to All” function.

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Importing Word Styles Only

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0) 
By: Anne-Marie Concepcion on InDesignSecrets.com

If you want to bring in styles from a Word file, yes, you do have to import the Word doc manually. (The Load Styles command in InDesign’s Paragraph Styles and Character Styles panel menus can only import styles from other InDesign docs.)

However, once you import styled text from Word or from any source into an InDesign file, the styles that came along for the ride are now part of the InDesign file itself, even if you delete all the text you just brought in.

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Convert Character Styled Text to Paragraph Styled Text

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0) 
By Anne-Marie Concepcion in InDesignSecrets.com

What to do when you inherit a file from someone who used Character Styles instead of Paragraph Styles (of course, you would never make that mistake yourself, right?).

When I work with clients who are already using InDesign, and they send me one of their actual INDD files, the first thing I do after opening their document is open the Character Styles panel. At least 25% of the time, I find at least one—or to my dismay, many—character styles that should have been paragraph styles. Like this:

This is a made up example but it’s emblematic of the problem. The user created a character style called “Body-no indent” and is applying it by selecting all the body text and clicking on the character style name. Ditto for the green subhead, and other styles. Often, they also create paragraph styles of the same name, and apply both to the text. Just in case, you know?

 

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Field Guide to InDesign Hyphens

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

See if you can spot the different kinds of hyphens in the sample screen shot, and learn when to use one versus another.

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Creating Mixed Page Orientations in the Same Layout

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Vikrant | Comments (0)

There are two ways to create mixed page sizes in InDesign CS5, but only one lets you change individual page orientations, too.

“How do I change the orientation of a new custom page size I add? I’m trying to make a tabloid-sized fold-out page. I have a facing-page letter-size document, and I used the dropdown menu in the Pages panel to add the tabloid page, but it’s portrait like the rest of the document. I can’t find the control where I can change the orientation of the new tabloid page to landscape.”

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