Liam Dempsey » InDesign http://www.liamdempsey.com The thoughts, work and ideas of Liam Dempsey Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:10:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Building websites using InDesign http://www.liamdempsey.com/building-websites-using-indesign/ http://www.liamdempsey.com/building-websites-using-indesign/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:51:25 +0000 Liam Dempsey http://www.liamdempsey.com/?p=111 Adobe InDesign CS2 BibleBack in November 2007, I wrote a post about using InDesign to craft visuals for website layouts. Since that posting, I have noted that a lot of traffic coming to my blog arrives from searches for ‘building websites using InDesign’ and related topics. On the back of all that traffic, I decided to look into the matter: can you really build a website using only InDesign?

The simple answer is no. At least not in InDesign CS2.

After many hours of research, and the Adobe InDesign CS2 Bible by Galen Gruman as my witness, I can definitively say that creating web pages directly from InDesign just isn’t possible. Gruman backs me up on this on page 688 of his Bible. Gruman writes that you could export XML from InDesign for import into Adobe GoLive. I’ve not tried that myself, but I can only imagine that coding horrors that might result.

But is it possible in CS3? That I don’t know as I only have CS2.

]]> http://www.liamdempsey.com/building-websites-using-indesign/feed/ 2 Changing default language for text-boxes in InDesign http://www.liamdempsey.com/changing-default-language-for-text-boxes-in-indesign/ http://www.liamdempsey.com/changing-default-language-for-text-boxes-in-indesign/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 17:57:13 +0000 Liam Dempsey http://www.liamdempsey.com/?p=101 Character palette in InDesign If you’re an Adobe InDesign user and not based in the United States, then you probably don’t produce flyers, brochures and the like in American English. Yet that’s the default language for text boxes in InDesign. So, how do you change the default setting to whatever language is more appropriate for your clients?

It’s really simple:

  1. Open InDesign, but make sure that no documents are open.
  2. Turn on the Character palette. This can be done by navigating to Type > Character via the menu bar, or by the keyboard shortcut (on a PC) of Ctrl+T.
  3. Character palette with language drop-down list
    In the Character tab, select the down arrow next to the Language and then select your language of choice.

When you then create a new document, the default language for text boxes will be whatever you previously selected.

When opening existing documents which still have US English as the default language for text-boxes, simply open the document and repeat steps 2 and 3, making sure that no content is selected while you alter the Language settings.

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