July 2026
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Your First InDesign Script: Which Pages Have Overset Text?
Most InDesign scripting tutorials open with a finished script. This one opens a step earlier: with the smallest useful thing a script can do, and with the decision of what to leave out of it. The goal is one dialog…
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When InDesign Fails to Export: Start by Finding the Broken Page
InDesign export failures can be difficult to diagnose. A document may open normally, but fail when you try to export it as a PDF. The file may hang partway through, crash the application, or produce an incomplete PDF with no…
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The Expensive Part of Multilingual DTP Isn't Only the Translation
A finished English layout existed in InDesign — a short quick-start guide, set cleanly, with a type hierarchy and a grid. It needed to exist in Japanese and German as well. The translations were already done. What remained was the…
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How a Print PDF Should Be Built from HTML
Recently I had a small but common production problem. A report already existed as a designed HTML page — good typography, a cover, a table of contents — and it needed to become a print-ready PDF. Not a screen capture…
