Adobe Indesign CS4

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What’s Up With the Missing Menu Commands?

One of the first differences I noticed in InDesign CS4 was that some commands were missing in certain menus, and [...]



Scale frame and content at the same time

Say you have a frame that’s five inches wide, and you want to scale it and the picture inside the [...]



Kill the stroke!

Did you just draw a rectangle and end up with a stroke on it that you didn’t want? You can [...]



Better polygons and starbursts

You can modify the attributes of a polygon (or starburst) as you create it. Just use the Arrow keys while [...]



Notes on frames

InDesign has the ability to insert notes in text. These notes can be managed with the Notes panel (Window>Type & [...]



Better WYSIWYG font previews

InDesign has had the ability to preview fonts in the font menus for quite a while. You can even change [...]



Align your drop caps

Often when you create a drop cap in InDesign, the left edge of the character isn’t perfectly aligned with the [...]



Lose the guides

Did you know that InDesign has a Preview mode? Switching to the Preview mode is an easy way to hide [...]



Grid Place bonus tip

Add the Shift key to the Arrow keys in the above tip to change the amount of space between each [...]



Grid place

In CS4, the multi-file place feature got even better. You can now place all the files in the loaded Place [...]



Proportional place

When you click a loaded Place Gun on a page, InDesign creates a frame that’s the same size as the [...]



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