Adobe Magazine
Q&A Archive: Adobe InDesign
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March/April 2000 Jan/Feb 2000
(PDF: 264 KB / 3 pages)

Questions in this issue:

When I try to crop an imported image with a clipping path, the clipping path gets changed without affecting the image, or the clipping path gets distorted. What's going on?
Some PDFs created from InDesign, generate error messages: "Unable to find or create the font <font name>" and "This file contains information not understood by the viewer. Suppress further errors?" And dots appear where there should be type! What is going on?
When I apply a paragraph style to text in InDesign, it overrides formatting I've applied to individual words or phrases. What can I do?
Tip: Resizing the InDesign pasteboard.
Micro Tip: Removing a stroke from an InDesign frame.
(PDF: 348 KB / 3 pages)

Questions in this issue:

Win/Mac: How do I get my master-page, text-wrapped graphic to work on a text page?
Win/Mac: Why does text reflow when I open a PageMaker or QuarkXPress document in InDesign?
Win/Mac: What happened to the option for selecting a PPD from within the Print dialog box?
Micro Tip: select elements hierarchically from within a nested group with the group-selection tool.
Autumn 1999
(PDF: 149 KB / 3 pages)

Questions in this issue:

Win/Mac (InDesign 1.0): How can I get colors in Illustrator graphics to look the same once I import them into InDesign?
Win/Mac (InDesign 1.0): Can I import libraries from QuarkXPress into InDesign?
MICRO TIP: Resizing and scaling a graphic along with its frame in InDesign.