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Make PDF tables able to be copied into Excel? (InDesign)

My organisation is publishing data tables, with these two design requirements: Must be a PDF to preserve our brand style and formatting, for people who want to print the tables themselves to use as ...
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Can I use Illustrator or InDesign to make a Google Doc look good?

I've just finished collaborating on a document in Google Docs with some colleagues. The content is perfect and the formatting is pretty good, but I'd like to tweak the formatting a little more before ...
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Unable to stop the image appearing outside frame when InDesign

I am using InDesign CS2 and importing an image into a graphics box with crop to trim ticked. But when I PDF it the image shows outside the frame area. Using distiller and acrobat pro 7.0 there does ...
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Where can I get an Adobe Flash Page Curl / Flip / Peel Effect tutorial?

I currently work on a brochure in InDesign. I export as an SWF and apply a page curl effect to it when publishing so I can put it online. It's great. However, I now want to take the brochure to the ...
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Can InDesign CS5 locally cache linked images?

We are building a catalog and getting bogged down with sharing large photos from an NAS on a 1Gbit lan. We will eventually try to get a faster fileserving situation, but is it possible for InDesign ...
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Use XML data from an online URL as data source InDesign

I'm looking to use XML in InDesign that comes from a live url as it's constantly updating from a database. I know I can download the XML and import it from the desktop but does anyone know how to ...
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InDesign Network Timeout Freezes ID

A Win7 SP1 64bit PC is running InDesign CS5, and while working on a file, a user experienced a "network connection" error, and then InDesign froze, with no chance of recovery. Is there any way to ...
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Prevent half-pixels in InDesign CS5

I'm using InDesign for web design and I'd love to be able to lock all resizing and moving to pixel increments - is there a way to do this? Any advice appreciated!
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Separating tri-fold into individual pages (PDF or InDesign)

Our graphic designer (no longer available) left me with a tri-fold brochure layout (both in InDesign format and PDF). I've a copy of InDesign CS5 and would like to know how to export this into a PDF ...
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How can I export PDF from InDesign so that transparency renders properly on all platforms?

Gradients, including drop shadows, all show up as solid blocks when I view my document on an Android phone. I tried different PDF compression and compatibility settings in an attempt to flatten and ...
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How to create incremental numbers in InDesign or Illustrator?

I have an A3 layout with several tickets to be printed, each with an consecutive number. Is there a way to do it automatically instead of writing it by hand?
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HOW TO: Reinstall Adobe CS5s PDF presets

How do I re-install the PDF presets for Adobe's Creative Suite 5? I upgraded from CS4 and uninstalled the CS4 programs and after my PDF presets in InDesign were gone!! File>PDF presets> Press ...
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InDesign CS4+ Data Merge with Remote Images?

Is it possible to use InDesign's data merge to link to remotely hosted images if the full path is known?
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How can I find my mail merged InDesign document?

I created a mail merge using InDesign, and it looked like it went through all of the records but (1) I can't find the option to export to pdf and (2) I can't find the merged file anywhere on my system ...
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calculate spine in InDesign

I'm new in InDesign and someone asked me how to calculate the spine (backbone) of a book (The book has 160 pages). Can anyone help me out...
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Printer features don't work when printing to Canon Printers ir5185 and ir7095 in Snow Leopard

Recently updated to iMac running Snow Leopard. Connected Canon printers ir7095 and ir5185 via ethernet and downloaded latest drivers from Canon website. Can print to both from InDesign CS3, however, ...
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Free or Cheap Alternative to InDesign, QuarkXPress? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What is a good alternative to Publisher for Desktop Publishing? I'm trying to lay out a magazine and need something comparable to InDesign for cheap or free. Windows 7 ...
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Adobe InDesign templates and design templates' cross-compatibility

Do Adobe InDesign templates only work in InDesign? What are the options for design template formats, and what programs do they work in?
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Indesign Import XML into Automatic Page generation, data merge

I've created some InDesign Pages that I want to use as templates. I've created an XML file with all the appropriate data. I want to merge the XML data with the InDesign page and have a few hundred ...
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Does InDesign have an analogue to MIF or some other easily generated format with equivalent capability?

Let me explain what I am trying to achieve: I have done workflows with LaTeX and FrameMaker that include a section (such as a data dictionary or API reference) that is incorporated into a larger ...
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How do I print an InDesign spread on one page?

How do I go about printing my InDesign spread as one page?
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Looking for software to facilitate printing of online content [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Good software to take a blog and format it for printing I'm looking for some web-based software to facilitate the printing of online content. For example: A user may ...
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Graphic Design in Outlook HTML Emails

At the moment we are creating artwork in Word and saving it as an HTML file. Opening up a new email, clicking insert on menu>clicking ‘File’>Selecting HTML file and choosing insert as text. The word ...
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Adobe InDesign + third party plugins vs. Framemaker

Apropos of this posting on Stackoverflow, I'd quite like to hear anyones experiences on using Adobe InDesign/InCopy plus third-party plugins such as those listed here. Specifically, how good would ...