Automatic set of layers in new documents

By Manuel Hollert | Published: 16. August 2009

Here’s a script, which automatically creates a set of layers with predefinded names in a given order when you create a new document. Read More »

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Preview on upcoming articels this august

By Manuel Hollert | Published: 14. August 2009

I’ve been on holiday for a couple of days and had some time to play around with InDesign. That’s why i’m preparing some articles, which all go online in august. Most of them are all about scripts i wrote in the near past to automate some tasks in Adobe InDesign, which are not that easy to do or impossible:

  1. Copy a layer from one document to the other
  2. Automatically insert a set of layers on creating a new document Done! See here.
  3. Exporting a single PDF from each page of the document

And some neat other ideas i came up with.

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Updated RSS Feed

By Manuel Hollert | Published: 17. July 2009

I have updated the RSS feed settings for DINform|at. If “English” is the selected language you will subscribe to the english RSS feed. And if “German” is selected, you will subscribe to the german RSS feed. And having kicked out feedburner, because it couldn’t handle the two languages, everybody should refresh his subscribtion by choosing the right language and pushing the RSS button again.

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Text Marker Effect

By Manuel Hollert | Published: 17. July 2009

Sorry, this article is by now only available in Deutsch. Please check back soon! The content will be translated in the next few days.

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PDFGridder – Design Grids To Go

By Manuel Hollert | Published: 12. July 2009

PDFGridder is an online tool which allows you to create a baseline and image grid with just some mouse clicks. The grid you designed can then be downloaded as a PDF file. I find this tool handy because of 3 reasons:

  1. It is easier to create a grid “on the go” then in InDesign, because the settings are split up between different panels and some a burried in the preferences
  2. Printing grids from InDesign can be cumbersome
  3. Every designprocess should start on paper

PDFGridder can be found here.

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