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InDesign CS3 – From Tab Text to Formatted Table in Less Than 30 Seconds! « Scratch Disk. Everybody who enjoys the copious amount of tweaking necessary to make tabular data look beautiful in a page layout application, please raise your hand. If your hand is up, skip to John Nack’s blog. Everybody else, read on, because I’m about to show you how to make short work of formatting tables in InDesign CS3. In fact, we’ll do it in less than 30 seconds. Ugly Duckling Text Take a peek at this tab-delimited text file placed into InDesign CS3. Not to worry, we’re going to end up with a gorgeous table, formatted like the image below in only a few seconds, complete with colored and styled text, perfectly aligned columns, and alternating rows of gradient color.

First, let’s watch a movie that shows how it’s done. Have a gander at this QT movie. How’dja Do That? Prior to turning the tabbed text into a table and formatting it as shown in the movie, I prepared for the process by setting up the following: First, I created two paragraph styles. To transform the text as shown in the movie, do this: How to frame or put a border around an image in PhotoShop.

How To Create A Realistic Pendrive In Adobe Illustrator. Posted on 08. Aug, 2009 by Olson in Ai-4Babys, ILLUSTRATOR Step Create a new document the size you want (I set my document to 550 x 550 px). Pick up the Rectangle Tool (M) and click anywhere on the page. In the dialog box input the values 175 px for width and 300 px for height. Step Let´s align our rectangle to the center of the page. Step Now that our rectangle is centered, let´s create the bottom part of our image.

Let´s align the ellipse to the rectangle. Now, using the Selection Tool (V), drag the ellipse to the bottom of the rectangle until you see 2 green smart guides indicating the ellipse is alligned in the bottom center. OK, now select both shapes and using “Pathfinder”, unite them. Now let´s use some gradient to fill our shape. Fisrt of all, add 6 stops to the gradient, and setup one by one following these instructions: Set the first stop to 82% black and location 30%, like the image below: Finally, set this two sliders this way: Now, let´s apply some effect. 100 x 100 px.

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