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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 ...

One of the charity sites that I designed and built (using divs with CSS layout) want to use Adobe Contribute to manage the site, since they have high volunteer turnover, and it's too much to try to train each one in HTML. Makes total sense right? So the manager tells me that the menu (which is a absolute positioned div with the highest z-index) is covering up the editable content region. I've never used Contribute myself, so I downloaded the trial so I could see what she was talking about. Now in my head I'm thinking, well the menu isn't editable so it shouldn't be showing up in Contribute edit mode at all... but it does... and it does indeed overlap the editable region, which makes it pretty damn difficult to edit! Completely annoying. But wait... there is more frustration to come. I start googling, and at first I can't find anything! Eventually I start finding questions on forums like mine, but unfortunitely no one has answered them. I finally found an ok solu...