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patbensky

Jan 5, 2018
1 min

Un-Linking Text Boxes in an InDesign Document

How to unlink all the text frames in an Adobe InDesign document.

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How to Create "First Letter" Subheadings

patbensky

Sep 28, 2017
2 min

How to Create "First Letter" Subheadings

Automating the creation of "first letter" subheadings in indexes when publishing data from CatBase to Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Word, etc

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patbensky

Sep 9, 2017
3 min

Changing a Field Type

Once a field has been defined for one of your tables in CatBase, you can change any of its properties EXCEPT the field type. There is a way

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Kate Robbins

Jul 10, 2017
2 min

How to Produce a Price List

How to rapidly turn plain data - such as database or spreadsheet data - into a stylish illustrated Price List.

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Speeding up the placement of tagged text files in Adobe InDesign

Kate Robbins

May 2, 2017
1 min

Speeding up the placement of tagged text files in Adobe InDesign

It seems that as the options and features in InDesign evolve, importing tagged text files gets slower and slower. I suppose this is becau...

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