Design Springboard – InDesign message list

InDesign has flourished in recent years, quickly becoming a major player in the professional design and DTP market.

We already have an InDesign Tutorials page. But the following is a selection of some of the discussions that members of the graphic design forums have had.

• Column settings in InDesign CS2 – making different column settings on an Adobe InDesign CS2 page spread.
• How to resize grouped text objects in InDesign – resizing a set of grouped elements in InDesign.
• Inline graphics and text wrap – upgrading from CS to CS2 problem.
• Problems installing InDesign – permissions issue on Mac OS X stopping installation.
• InDesign training courses – face to face training question.
• Bleed and InDesign – setting up bleed in documents.
• Printer's spreads in InDesign – is there an easy way to convert designer's spreads into printers pairs without using plugins?
• Transparent backgrounds in InDesign – bringing Photoshop .PSD files into InDesign.
• Adobe InDesign CS2 – compared with CS1.
• Font problems InDesign – transferring document from Mac to PC.
• Problems creating InDesign PDF – a designers asks for tips.
• InDesign plugins – members suggest useful Adobe InDesign plugins.
• Kerning & Tracking, InDesign – using Adobe InDesign's typography settings.
• InDesign or Quark? – another angle on the debate.
• Photoshop to Indesign – a low resolution problem between Photoshop and the page layout program.
• illustrator indesign coreldraw – a Mac issue with these programs.
• InDesign CS issues with drop shadows
• InDesign
• Is there a bundle upgrade for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign?
• Print A3 duplex in indesign
• Finding InDesign Tutorials – a Design Talkboard member asks about online training resources.
• Printing from InDesign – printing issues in Windows 98 discussed and, possibly, resolved.
• Tinting grayscale tiffs with swatch in InDesign doc, like Quark? – A member asks if InDesign has the same ability to tint placed grayscale images, in the same way as QuarkXpress.
• Converting Multi-Ad Creator – is it possible to convert MultiAd Creator files so that they can be imported by ID?
• What is Indesign?
• Designers layout software – a designer asks if there are any other DTP tools worth looking at, other than the usual big 2? For example Framemaker, Pagemaker and even a german page layout tool called VivaPress.
• What resolution should I use for a print job?
• Need to decide – which desktop publishing and design programs to use?
• Problems with graphic frames – more printing issues.
• Getting started – new freelance designer choosing studio equipment and software tools.
• Preflight software for inDesign
• Photographer turning Web/Graphic designer? – Quark or InDesign decision time again.
• Specific need in Pre-press Language Courses!
• excuse my english
• Disappearing PDFs – Strange Mac OS X issue when exporting PDF files from InDesign.