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GREP in InDesign Excerpt: Learning by Example - InDesignSecrets.com
GREP by Example It may be easiest to see how GREP works with a few examples. But first a quick comparison with InDesign’s Text search, which is useful because the comparison reveals GREP’s strength. InDesign’s text search is used mainly for searching literal text: when you search for cats, you find just that (disregarding settings such as case-sensitivity and whole-word only). But in the Text tab you can use some wildcards: ^9 finds any digit, ^$ stands for any letter, ^?
Now available: GREP in InDesign, 3rd Edition - InDesignSecrets.com
GREP in InDesign, 3rd edition, by Peter Kahrel We’re pleased to announce InDesignSecrets’ latest publication, the 3rd edition of Peter Kahrel’s seminal ebook, GREP in InDesign. It’s a 129-page PDF, formatted for easy reading on screen, with plenty of screenshots, and fully bookmarked, hyperlinked, and cross-referenced to make navigating it a breeze. Harness the Power of GREP in InDesign You may have read how GREP can save you time in InDesign. You may have heard the production pros talk about it.
GREP Find/Change on Formatted Text (solution to a big problem) - InDesignSecrets.com
You know I love GREP in InDesign. It’s an incredibly powerful way to format or find or change a lot of text very quickly. However, there is one significant problem with GREP that people rarely talk about… and if you aren’t aware of it, the problem can really bite you badly. I want to explain the problem and then share a couple of possible solutions. The problem involves using the GREP tab of the Find/Change dialog box to alter text that already has formatting applied to it.
Rules for Working With Tiny Type - InDesignSecrets.com
Don’t worry; I promise this isn’t going to be a rant about the eyesight of the aging population and their impatience with type just getting smaller and smaller all the time. The fact is, there are many instances of design that call for the use of very small, if not tiny, type, and it’s not only on the geriatric prescription notifications. In print, these can include captions, credits, newspapers, dictionaries, manuals and directories, and instructions, as well as miniature books.
Tip of the Week: Controlling Ruler Guide Visibility With View Threshold - InDesignSecrets.com
This InDesign tip on setting ruler guide visibility threshold was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on May 23, 2018. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, keyboard shortcut, and roundups of new articles, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom of this page, enter your email address, and click Go! We’ll take care of the rest.
Tip of the Week: Making Liquid Guides Solid - InDesignSecrets.com
This InDesign tip on Making Liquid Guides Solid was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on May 17, 2018. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, keyboard shortcut, and roundups of new articles, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom of this page, enter your email address, and click Go! We’ll take care of the rest.
Fixing Over-Extended Paragraph Borders in InDesign - InDesignSecrets.com
With the new March 2018 release of InDesign, the paragraph border feature has been improved. But an old problem remains. When a paragraph with borders breaks across a page, the borders extend beyond the page margins. The reason for these over-extended borders is the offset setting in the Borders dialog. In this example, we’ve told InDesign to extend the top offset by 13 points and the bottom offset by 12 points and this is reflected by those extra, unwanted border bits above and below the margins.
Using Google Fonts With InDesign - InDesignSecrets.com
Using Google Fonts With InDesign This article appeared in Issue 109 of InDesign Magazine. How to Find, Install, and Use Google Fonts in InDesign If you’re a Creative Cloud member, you have access to Typekit, which at last count featured over 1500 type families for desktop use. But if, like me, you believe that you can never have enough fonts, Google Fonts is another large type library you can access… and it’s free! The primary purpose of Google Fonts is to serve up fonts to websites.
Layout Grid Calculator for Book Page Design - InDesignSecrets.com
Layout Grid Calculator for Book Page Design Mike Rankin April 19, 2018 Do you design books or other long documents? If so, you probably use some kind of grids to guide your page designs, and have a method for determining the grid specs. If you want a little help calculating your page grids, check out the Layout Grid Calculator for InDesign by Jean-Lou Désiré. It offers three different methods for calculating grids, Modular Grid, Multicolumn Grid, and Tschichold’s Golden Canon.
Put Lines to Left and Right of a Heading - InDesignSecrets.com
Ann wrote: I’ve hunted and hunted for a way to make … a centered heading with a line on either side. There are two ways to create this effect: the traditional, easy way (which works in limited situations); and a slightly more difficult method (which works in almost all situations).
Tip of the Week: Applying Seamless Shading to Consecutive Paragraphs - InDesignSecrets.com
Mike Rankin April 3, 2018 This InDesign tip on Applying Seamless Shading to Consecutive Paragraphs was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on March 29, 2018. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, keyboard shortcut, and roundups of new articles, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom of this page, enter your email address, and click Go! We’ll take care of the rest.
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