Archive for May, 2007|Monthly archive page
InDesign: Paragraph rules don’t show up
Leave a CommentIf you’re applying paragraph rules in Adobe InDesign but they aren’t visible, check the following in the Paragraph Rules dialog box (or the Paragraph Rules pane of the Paragraph Style Options dialog box if you’re editing a style):
- Make sure Rule On is enabled.
- If Weight is set to 0, increase the stroke weight.
- If Color is set to None, give it an actual color.
- Check the Width, Offset, Left Indent, and Right Indent. If any of these values is too high, it can push the rule outside the text frame where you can’t see it.
Last time this happened to me, it was because I had built a style on top of another style that had a large rule indent. I set the indent to 0 and the rule became visible inside the text frame.
Photoshop: Preview checkbox shortcut in dialog boxes
Filed under: Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Digital Photography |
Leave a Comment One of my favorite new features in Adobe Photoshop CS3 is the new keyboard shortcut for clicking the Preview checkbox in dialog boxes. Just press the P key!
Adobe wisely brought in this shortcut from Adobe Camera Raw, and it saves a lot of repetitive mousing when you’re doing before/after comparisons. It’s one of those enhancements that’s so small nobody notices, yet has a large actual effect on productivity.
