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Hi, I have bought a Dell E4200 laptop where the drive was wiped so I have it with no operating system. I have created a USB boot disk with XP install on it via wintoflash. The Dell wont see the USB drive at all. USB boot direct from pre bios option tried, and bios set to USB boot first in BIOS...

Hi I am making basic emailer newsletters for someone. I make them in indesign with 600pixel width, then export as jpeg and cut into 3 images to put into dreamweaver and upload html and images to my web space, by having 3 images even though they have text this seems to work across everything I...

Hi I have always found it hard when making brochures where I have type set to baseline grid, if I dont I can have inconsistent spacing between loose paragraphs. If I need to budge some type for something it wont show the type until it is snapped to the next grid line which may not be where I...

Hi, I have designed a folder with a dark charcoal grey and need to get this ready for print looking on screen the mix looks good at C40 M40 Y40 K90. I have no idea how this will look printed but am hoping for a good basic grey for corporate folder, not too blue not too brown/muddy etc is there...

Hi I have a client that has requested the Indesign file for a project I did, and another client has asked for the fonts for a design I did. On of the fonts they chose and paid license for which I bought on their behalf and another is a paid font on my system. I know I cant or wont give them the...

Hi I have some flat logos that I need to offer a more dynamic option. I like the perspective and bulge done in the example of the ones in the below link, but if I try most Illustrator transform effects I cant get a nice even fish eye/bloat look like these. Any ideas how i would do this in Illy...

Hi, is it best to select this option unless specified otherwise? many thanks Sam

Ive been trying to decide whether its best to use clipping paths more in indesign to cut out/mask objects but find it more time consuming and the paths are sharp and hard looking as apposed to pen path and cut objects as PSD files then place. Generally I get better cut outs in PS with various...

Hi, if I set up a grid of square images with equal space between them I usually do this as margins/guides. I have also thought I could inner stroke the frames with the same background colour which is quicker and easier to adjust the size spacing. Is this a good way to achieve this effect...

I have been exporting my projects as High quality print from Indesign as exported PDF without outlining fonts. Is this all I need to worry about in regards to font embedding. Looking into solution fro my previous post it seems outlining is to be avoided! If there are issues with fonts will...

Hi when I outline type in my project that is in tables it makes a duplicate text outlined which means the artwork has two lots of text. Anyway to outline tables text so this doesn't happen? Thanks Sam

Hi when I outline type in my project that is in tables it makes a duplicate text outlined which means the artwork has two lots of text. Anyway to outline tables text so this doesn't happen? Thanks Sam

I use designer black as my default black C70 M50 Y30 K100 but how do I specify grays to go with this. I am using in a project for type on a business card for example C: 0.000% M: 2.143% Y: 5.714% K: 45.098% which is converted from pantone cool gray 9 but if I want a range of grays is there any...

I have just completed a portfolio of works and find any placed PSD projects which are shape layers on a transparent background show as crude jagged black hairline edges but putting a matching solid background to it solves this. Should PSDs not be placed with transparent backgrounds? Thanks Sam

Have to make a A5 calendar where it displays months and days as type only like a classic desk calendar for 2011. Should I do this as tables for the months and days and cell/character styles. Thanks Sam

I am making a PDF portfolio I have made a generic master page with hyperlink thumbs to pages and my logo numbers etc and border decoration. I have made the display area elements in my page as separate PDFs to place in the centre frame so if I need to shuffle what appears on pages and add remove...

Hi Although I have been using indesign for a while now I have reached a hurdle thats blown my confidence for a while! Here is what has happened or what I am looking at from my wife printing on an office printer a portfolio I have made in indesign exported as PDF/x -1a 2001 . 1. I have a...

I want to create a portfolio PDF where I have 10 thumbnails along the bottom of each page that will navigate to the corresponding page. I cant find a way to set this up so I only have to set the hyperlinks once in the generic page then produce 9 copies so my navigation will work. Looks like I...

Lately as I create and import objects my type shifts all over the place and I notice by default the objects have text wrap assigned, is this something in settings I have to switch off to stop objects doing this, Thanks Sam

Trying to find a way of creating a lead character of a paragraph where I have a large character set into the paragraph aligning with the enlarged character top and sides to create a square of text with the character set into this. Like on old story books where a large O will start a paragraph...