Tab leaders are the lines of filler characters in printed lists and tables of contents that connect the aligned content on one side to the aligned content on the other, both leading the eye and filling in what would otherwise be an awkward trapped space…
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Reset Preferences
InDesign crashing? Menus and palettes blank or out of sorts? Other strange flutterings from the butterfly? You might have corrupted preferences. Reset them…
Save InDesign Swatches for Other CS2 Applications
In Creative Suite 2 Adobe introduced the Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ASE) file format…
Pre-load Your Corporate Colors Into InDesign’s Swatches Palette
Everybody knows that creative productivity and efficiency is a huge interest of mine…
Save It All Fast
CMD+S, CMD+W, CMD+S, CMD+W… It gets tedious if you have a number of documents open at once and you’re already running late for a dinner date. Save yourself some time and keystrokes…
Hedging Against Converted File Corruption
I figured out this trick a couple of years ago with the InDesign CS2 beta…
Scale Strokes… Or Not
When scaling an object up or down, its stroke may end up looking too spindly or too thick in relation to the object if Scale Strokes is turned off…
Convert Bullets and Numbers to Stylable Text
If you’ve got bulleted and numbered lists but want more control over the appearance of the bullets or numbers, convert them to normal text…
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