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I always found it annoying that when first creating a document InDesign it defaults the size in Picas. Call me unworthy, but I don't work in Picas, I work in Inches (yes I am Canadian, whatever metric system). So every time I would create a document I would go to Edit - Preferences - Units & Increments and change the Horizontal and Vertical Ruler Units to Inches. One day it occurred to me, shouldn't there be a way to set this once and have it the default so that I don't have to do this EVERY DAMN TIME? (Why it took me so long to think of this, I don't know. Don't judge.) After just clicking around InDesign for a couple minutes I found no immediate way to do this, so I turned to my old friend Google. At the end of this article ( http://indesignsecrets.com/changing-indesigns-default-ruler-measurements.php ) I discovered that there is a very simple way to do this, it`s just not all that intuitive. Open up InDesign but do NOT open or create ...

Don't ask me why, but me and the Illustrator Artboard have never truly gotten along. I had a logo file that I wanted to export as a JPG on a perfectly square background so that it looked good on the client's Twitter and Facebook page. I knew how to get the artboard to be a square but I did not know how to center the logo on the artboard. A little research with Google found me the answer. ( http://kcoppock.wordpress.com/2007/03/18/adobe-illustrator-align-to-artboard/ ) First to get the artboard square; File - Document Setup..., hit the "Edit Artboards" button. In the options just under the file menu there is W and H (width and height), choose the same number for both, hit Enter, voila! Next, getting the logo centered on the artboard. First I grouped all the objects in the logo (select all objects, right click, group). Then I opened the Align panel (Window - Align). On the Align panel I clicked the "Align To" arrow in the bottom right ...

Where have I been you ask? Well I went and had a baby, aka time sucker/love of my life. I haven't been working much with code, so I have less to post about. I've been doing a lot of visual design and IA work lately and it's great! Hope to start posting more often!