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Archive for January, 2003

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InDesign Scripting Stuff

Friday, January 24th, 2003

InDesign 2.0: Adding Tab to Table Cells. Pretty esoteric. There is a MacOS version here Add Tab to Cell Contents Script (MacOS .sit from adobeevangelists.com)
Thanks to Tim Cole's perstering, InDesign 2.0: Pasting As Text Only on Windows is a Windows version of Paste as Text Only (MacOS .sit from adobeevangelists.com). Don't thank me, [...]

InDesign 2.0: Pasting As Text Only on Windows

Thursday, January 23rd, 2003

Tim Cole has been hassling me to do this for 12 months. Today he found me in a receptive, VB mode, so here it is.

Paste as Text Only (Windows zip downloadable)

Just download, unzip and place the .exe into your InDesign 2.0 Scripts folder.

Instead of using Edit>Paste, select the insertion point or textframe you [...]

InDesign 2.0: Adding Tab to Table Cells

Thursday, January 23rd, 2003

Stephen Canning from Creative Consultants asked if there was a Windows version of the Add Tab to Cell Contents Script (MacOS .sit from adobeevangelists.com).

I found an hour spare, quickly relearnt Visual Basic, and managed to pop this out:
Add Tab to Beginning of Cell (zip downloadable)

Just download, unzip and place the .exe into your InDesign [...]

www.nickhodge.com RSS Feed

Thursday, January 23rd, 2003

There is an RSS feed implemented from www.nickhodge.com

RSS 0.92 Feed
www.nickhodge.com RSS 2.0 Feed

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Tough Week, Feedreader

Thursday, January 23rd, 2003

This week just gets better and better. Yes, I am being sarcastic. The lowest form of wit.
Anyway, a find for this week. FeedReader is a Windows application that periodically reads RSS feeds from newssources.

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Tough Day

Tuesday, January 21st, 2003

Today was one of those days. "and the hits just keep on coming"

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CSS

Monday, January 20th, 2003

For those interesting in CSS, floating boxes and a whole lotta web fun. Eric Meyer: CSS. css/edge is especially interesting. Testing the limits/bounds of what can be achieved with CSS.

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InDesign 2.0: Photoshop to InDesign workflow

Saturday, January 18th, 2003

Visit the new InDesign Prepress Section: Adobe InDesign: Prepress Techniques

There are a variety of methods for taking a Photoshop file and placing to into InDesign. After over a year of InDesign 2.0 in production use, I thought it opportune to expose another workflow choice taken by these customers. It directly relates to the [...]

Photoshop to InDesign

Saturday, January 18th, 2003

New article: InDesign 2.0: Photoshop to InDesign workflow

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Favicon, Python

Sunday, January 12th, 2003

Worked out how to read the raw Apache logs for this site, and found some interesting errors. Oops! Cleaned up some broken links, learnt how to do favicon.ico images for the URL and when adding to history/favourites. Not too hard, really.
Time to learn a new programming language. PERL or Python? I decided on Python.

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