[Closed] indesign users

Its an absolute doddle. Especially compared to Quark - without doubt the most user-unfriendly, inexplicably-successful piece of software ever

What are you struggling with?

indesign is awesome and lovely. works the same as all adobe stuff but yes, after you get it, it all just makes sense.

Indesign is great - except when it come to giving me a simple way to open and close paths... That's when I miss Corel draw 😉

everything! i'm not one of nature's computer users it has to be said but everything i'm doing seems to result in a frenzy of googling, two steps back to go one step forward, copious swearing and the assurance of ms swiss that it'll all be worth it.

yesterday i was making prints which seems to me should've been vastly simpler than it was and really only served to make the printer happy. today i'm making a book thingy and it's suggesting 'it may be easier' if i place each page in one page at a time. surely not! but the means to make the text run on continues to evade me.

is there perhaps a beyond idiots guide to this malarkey? i am reassured however that i am failing on a 'user-friendly' piece of software....

okay, a question then. apparently there should be a master page thing. i can see this and, i'm told, if i set my guides on this page it will be applied across my pages to form some sort of template macgubbinry. except it doesn't. suggestions?

There might be some more user friendly apps that can help with page layout. Adobe is so user unfriendly but I can't see it ever biting the dust.

Go to pages and hit 'New Master' (3rd one down). Set this master up to your liking

The just drag and drop this master onto your page list below when you need a new page.

Its that easy. If you're struggling with anything Adobe, go for the easiest, most obvious way to do it. Thats normally where it is

nah, that didn't work neither. not even remotely. thanks tho

Swiss, take some time out to read a book, Classroom in a Book for InDesign is good. Real World InDesign is good. You need to look at the basics and, with a few exercises, build up from there rather than jumping right in. I got to InDesign via PageMaker and before that scissors and cow gum.
You may struggle without a bit of book learning. The tutorials on the Adobe website may be useful too...

that would be handy only it's not like i haven't used it for other things before and, annoying tho it was, at least the basic functionality was working. as it is after some hours of trying to get round its foibles i'm kind of scuppered it would seem. ho hum. definitely bike now!