Convert PDFs to Word in an instant

This works really well. Also discovered re-saving a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 as a .doc does a similar job too! http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf-to-word-converter/

Adding interactivity to your PDFs

Today I learnt a little about creating buttons in Adobe InDesign CS3: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSE0B3DDA6-397B-42df-8506-9220DEFB676B.html And then about how to create a Print button as a finishing touch in Acrobat: http://blogs.adobe.com/educationleaders/2008/05/create_an_acrobat_print_button.html Useful stuff!

InDesign skills: Don’t let transparency ruin your printing

I just KNOW one day I will need this article and won’t know where I found it! An excellent note from the Adobe Creative Newsletter. InDesign skills: Don’t let transparency ruin your printing

Creating and using Snippets

An Adobe InDesign Snippet is a file that can hold various page elements in position, ready to drop into another document. There are three ways of creating Snippets: 1. Select the objects you wish to place in a Snippet and drag them to your desktop. 2. Select the objects from the Structure View and drag them [...]

InDesign tutorials

Some really good InDesign tutorials here from Layers Magazine.

Adobe InDesign CS3 Help

Downloadable/printable InDesign CS3 Help from Adobe.

InDesign CS3 in Easy Steps

This is a really excellent book on InDesign CS3 by Robert Shufflebotham, covering the basics and also the more advanced stuff. Buy it on Amazon for as little as €12 here.

Become an ACE

Are you interested in becoming an Adobe Certified Expert? Find out all you need to know about how to register for an ACE exam in your area here. The Adobe InDesign CS3 exam can be taken at New Horizons in Dublin for €138.

Dublin Adobe InDesign User Group

Thanks to all those who got in touch regarding the Dublin Adobe InDesign User Group. A fellow ‘InDesigner’, Eugene Tyson, is working to secure a venue so with a bit of luck a first meeting might be happening some time soon! Watch this space!

Anyone interested in joining a Dublin Adobe InDesign User Group?

Myself and a couple of other ‘InDesigners’ have long been thinking about setting up an InDesign User Group in Dublin. As far as we can tell, none exists so far and we just can’t imagine why! It would be a fantastic way for Dublin designers to meet and get to know one another and to share tips and [...]

Unlinking text boxes in InDesign

I never knew that you could unlink text boxes in InDesign until I read about it in a handy tip from InDesign Magazine. Basically, you can unlink text boxes without disturbing their contents by running a simple script that you already have. In InDesign CS3, open your Scripts panel (Window> Automation>Scripts) and look in the [...]

Create different page sizes in a single InDesign document

This morning I had to do some artwork for an eight panel conference stand, but the two side panels needed to be smaller than the others making up the main bit of the artwork. I wanted to retain the different ‘pages’ as such (instead of creating a giant piece of artwork) but InDesign does not [...]

Importing tables into Adobe InDesign

Here’s a handy tip – if you need to bring a table from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign, keep the formatting of the table (yes, columns, rows, the whole lot) by placing it (using File>Place) into your document, making sure the ‘Preserve Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables’ option is on. I used to just copy [...]

Creating gatefold spreads in Adobe InDesign

The other day I wanted to make a gatefold invitation and I just could not figure out how to get InDesign to let me slide three pages into a spread! I found the answer at InDesignSecrets.com in this post. 

Converting CS3 files back to CS2

If you need to convert Adobe InDesign CS3 files back to CS2, simply export them as InDesign Interchange (.inx) files and then re-open them in CS2. Note though that any special effects you may have added in CS3 that weren’t available in CS2, such as the Directional Feather effect, won’t carry back to CS2.