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Adobe Removes Creative Suite Deactivation Limit!
Klaus Norby pointed out this fine news over on InDesignSecrets—Adobe is removing the deactivation limit for Creative Suite, for versions CS3 and CS4. This is not a fullscale removal of the Activiation...
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Dirty Words Design: Episode 8, GREP Styles + Preflight Proofing
This episode of Dirty Words Design shows you how to harness the power of two InDesign CS4 features—GREP Styles and Live Preflight—together to automatically detect if your document contains specified...
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Site Update for Mobile Browsers
I just installed a plugin that should give people on portable/small screen devices a much more efficient layout. Please post if you’re using a mobile device and encounter any issues!
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Still using Creative Suite 1? Upgrade pricing won’t last much longer…
Over on his block, John Nack of Adobe points out that if you still own Creative Suite 1 and you want to upgrade to Creative Suite 4, you should do so soon, as Adobe has a “3 versions back” policy and...
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Unintended Hiatus and Future Plans
I didn’t intend to take a hiatus from Dirty Words Design, but it seems to have happened. A few things conspired to create this situation: I took a 10-day vacation in March; I quit my job; I’m in the...
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DWD: Episode 9, InDesign CS5 Background Exporting
Good: I’ve managed to fix my low audio problems and the videocast should be much more listenable now. Better: InDesign CS5 includes a nice feature that allows you to export PDF files in the background...
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DWD: Episode 10, Trio of Table of Contents Tips
After a long hiatus (I’m sorry!), Dirty Words Design is back with a roughly produced (I’m really sorry!) episode that contains three tips for dealing with InDesign Table of Contents and using them in...
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InDesign for Kindle Plugin: Install on CS4 & CS5
Amazon has just announced that they have released a free beta plugin for converting books to Kindle format directly out of InDesign. The plugin is compatible with InDesign CS4 and CS5, but if you have...
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Fixing Paragraph Style Pairs Updated for CS5
Thomas Silkjær’s excellent script that helps you fix paragraph style pairs has been updated for CS5 compatability, hooray! He’s been a busy guy lately and so I really appreciate him taking the time to...
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InDesign to iPad PDF Preset
Making PDFs that work well on the iPad can be a little tricky, especially as the iOS libraries that read PDF files don’t understand JPG2000 compression. You can easily tell InDesign to not use JPG2000...
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DWD: Episode 11, Work Around the OS X iBooks Library
Here’s Episode 11 of Dirty Words Design, which discusses how to quickly edit and preview ePub files using iBooks for OS X. Let’s call this episode the first one of Season Two … I’ll be updating the...
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