Adobe InDesign
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So I was recently more or less forced to use Adobe InDesign - for a home project in which a publication has to be made, after the responsible for it had no time to finish it.:~ While the software in overall works quite good - I am experienced with Photoshop, so Adobe was generally speaking no new land to me, I am quite surprised that some most basic features are missing*. Basically, the software works by assembling blocs of texts or pictures, that you can link together and nicely place on your document page, the software assisting you a lot in that procedure. BUT you cannot split a text bloc :confused:. Use-case: You have a big chunk of text in a bloc, and want to split it in two so that you can arrange them differently on the page: not possible. You have to create another bloc, cut the text from the first bloc, paste it in the new one. I am still amazed that a software used by editing professionals, and who costs an eye, would lack such simple a feature. And this is by far not the only one. * And yes, they are missing, other are bithching about it, it is definitely not only me who don't know how to use the software and therefor *think* some features might be missing.
You can link text frames. Just create a second frame, and link it to the first one. Any text overflow on the first frame will continue in the next. Check out this InDesign Help[^] page. That's what you mean, right?
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So I was recently more or less forced to use Adobe InDesign - for a home project in which a publication has to be made, after the responsible for it had no time to finish it.:~ While the software in overall works quite good - I am experienced with Photoshop, so Adobe was generally speaking no new land to me, I am quite surprised that some most basic features are missing*. Basically, the software works by assembling blocs of texts or pictures, that you can link together and nicely place on your document page, the software assisting you a lot in that procedure. BUT you cannot split a text bloc :confused:. Use-case: You have a big chunk of text in a bloc, and want to split it in two so that you can arrange them differently on the page: not possible. You have to create another bloc, cut the text from the first bloc, paste it in the new one. I am still amazed that a software used by editing professionals, and who costs an eye, would lack such simple a feature. And this is by far not the only one. * And yes, they are missing, other are bithching about it, it is definitely not only me who don't know how to use the software and therefor *think* some features might be missing.
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You can link text frames. Just create a second frame, and link it to the first one. Any text overflow on the first frame will continue in the next. Check out this InDesign Help[^] page. That's what you mean, right?
Yes, that's one workaround. I actually did not want them to be linked : linking, resizing, unlinking does work. But still more complicated than putting the caret where you want your text bloc to be split, and press something like ... "Split".
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So I was recently more or less forced to use Adobe InDesign - for a home project in which a publication has to be made, after the responsible for it had no time to finish it.:~ While the software in overall works quite good - I am experienced with Photoshop, so Adobe was generally speaking no new land to me, I am quite surprised that some most basic features are missing*. Basically, the software works by assembling blocs of texts or pictures, that you can link together and nicely place on your document page, the software assisting you a lot in that procedure. BUT you cannot split a text bloc :confused:. Use-case: You have a big chunk of text in a bloc, and want to split it in two so that you can arrange them differently on the page: not possible. You have to create another bloc, cut the text from the first bloc, paste it in the new one. I am still amazed that a software used by editing professionals, and who costs an eye, would lack such simple a feature. And this is by far not the only one. * And yes, they are missing, other are bithching about it, it is definitely not only me who don't know how to use the software and therefor *think* some features might be missing.
Well, Adobe is monitoring this Lounge, and this feature will come two versions hence. :-)
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InDesignEd. I sense this is going to take us far.
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InDesignEd. I sense this is going to take us far.
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Adobetably. I like it, keep going.
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Adobetably. I like it, keep going.
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Well, Adobe is monitoring this Lounge, and this feature will come two versions hence. :-)
Or if they get the time machine working, it'll be in the two previous versions.
veni bibi saltavi
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So I was recently more or less forced to use Adobe InDesign - for a home project in which a publication has to be made, after the responsible for it had no time to finish it.:~ While the software in overall works quite good - I am experienced with Photoshop, so Adobe was generally speaking no new land to me, I am quite surprised that some most basic features are missing*. Basically, the software works by assembling blocs of texts or pictures, that you can link together and nicely place on your document page, the software assisting you a lot in that procedure. BUT you cannot split a text bloc :confused:. Use-case: You have a big chunk of text in a bloc, and want to split it in two so that you can arrange them differently on the page: not possible. You have to create another bloc, cut the text from the first bloc, paste it in the new one. I am still amazed that a software used by editing professionals, and who costs an eye, would lack such simple a feature. And this is by far not the only one. * And yes, they are missing, other are bithching about it, it is definitely not only me who don't know how to use the software and therefor *think* some features might be missing.
If you think InDesign is bad, wait until you get a load of Illustrator. That damned program owes me at least a quarter of a head of hair.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you think InDesign is bad, wait until you get a load of Illustrator. That damned program owes me at least a quarter of a head of hair.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Been there, suffered the same. Illustrator could rank not far from LotusNotes.
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Or if they get the time machine working, it'll be in the two previous versions.
veni bibi saltavi
The did not get this working ... can the get the time machine to work?
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So I was recently more or less forced to use Adobe InDesign - for a home project in which a publication has to be made, after the responsible for it had no time to finish it.:~ While the software in overall works quite good - I am experienced with Photoshop, so Adobe was generally speaking no new land to me, I am quite surprised that some most basic features are missing*. Basically, the software works by assembling blocs of texts or pictures, that you can link together and nicely place on your document page, the software assisting you a lot in that procedure. BUT you cannot split a text bloc :confused:. Use-case: You have a big chunk of text in a bloc, and want to split it in two so that you can arrange them differently on the page: not possible. You have to create another bloc, cut the text from the first bloc, paste it in the new one. I am still amazed that a software used by editing professionals, and who costs an eye, would lack such simple a feature. And this is by far not the only one. * And yes, they are missing, other are bithching about it, it is definitely not only me who don't know how to use the software and therefor *think* some features might be missing.