Tips Tagged ‘CS3’

Creative Tip: InDesign Frame Fitting Options.

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Most InDesign production artists have a routine they repeat dozens of times a day: Place a graphic into an image frame, and quickly type a keyboard command to fit the graphic to the frame size. It becomes an instinctive keystroke.

Command-Option-Shift-E fits the graphic proportionally.
Command-Option-Shift-C fills the frame with your graphic.

But, no matter how fast your fingers are, there is a quicker way: InDesign’s frame fitting options. Select an image frame, and choose Object > Fitting > Frame Fitting Options. You can preset how you want your graphics to fit when they are placed into that frame. Perfect for catalogs and magazines where large numbers of images are used in existing layout templates. Add this setting to an Object Style and you’ve really got a timesaving technique!

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Business Tip: Where to Buy Old CS3 Versions or Upgrades.

Today we’ve heard from several clients who are adding new designers to their team. They are not ready to upgrade their full office to Creative Suite 4, but they are having a hard time finding where to purchase copies of Creative Suite 3. For readers in the same quandry, here are some links on Amazon for the older CS3 packages:

CS3-DesignStandard.jpgCreative Suite 3.3 Design Standard:

CS3-DesignPremium.jpgCreative Suite 3.3 Design Premium:

Source: This tip inspired by today’s request from Coolstone Design Works among others.

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