Cari Jansen

Adobe InDesign and XML: A Reference Guide

Cari Jansen — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 23:52:49 +0000

The following is a reference guide I have compiled over time for those of you who are looking at doing a little more with XML in InDesign (originally published Feb. 2011, last updated Feb 2018). If you have any extra information you’d like to see added to this guide, feel free to message me. Mapping XML tags to InDesign […]

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Fixing up old photos with Adobe Photoshop

Cari Jansen — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 01:49:13 +0000

As part of the April 2015 Adobe User Group meeting in Perth, I recorded a series of videos that covered some of the tips we reviewed during that meeting. For a full read-up about this meeting, please visit the Rejuvenating old photos and documents meeting round-up page. Video 1: Converting an old sepia tone back […]

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How to change the colour of bullet points in InDesign

Cari Jansen — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 02:49:47 +0000

A few weeks ago, I recorded a short, quick tip tutorial. InDesign’s Control panel gives users a fast and easy way to format text as a bulleted list. Highlight the text, and click the Bulleted List button in the Paragraph Formatting Controls mode for the Control panel. This applies a universal bullet character as the […]

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How to create a tint for a colour in Adobe Illustrator

Cari Jansen — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:45:57 +0000

How can I make a tint for a colour in Adobe Illustrator? It’s a question I’m asked regularly by Illustrator users. There are two issues with the default settings when defining new colour swatches in Illustrator: When you apply the default colour swatches in Illustrator to your artwork, the swatch colour is not associated with the […]

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Changing installer language for Creative Cloud applications

Cari Jansen — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:14:30 +0000

As I visit Australian sites that have upgraded to the Creative Cloud, I notice that many of them have the English (North American) version of the applications installed. This comes with a number of default preferences in Adobe applications that might not be desired: Units of measurements might be set in inches or picas instead of metric […]

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Creating a pop-up window in a PDF with Adobe InDesign

Cari Jansen — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:07:15 +0000

In the following YouTube tutorial, we’ll create an interactive PDF from Adobe InDesign, in which we click on a button, which in turn opens up a simple pop-up window containing a close-box. When the close-box is clicked the pop-up window disappears again.

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