Running "how do I do this in InDesign?" thread.

There's actually a TABS floating menu that can be brought up, I believe, under the edit menu.

 

That was easy.

Next question: How do you jump text?

 

By pressing the red + sign and flowing it into a new text box.

 

Just figured it out the second you posted. D'oh.

 

We use Quark 4.1 with NewsEdit Pro for our pages, but it looks like Indesign CS2 is on the way in the next couple months.

What pairs with Indesign? I know I'm going to have to learn Indesign, but what other program am I likely to be learning at the same time?

 

InCopy

 

InCopy reminds me a little bit of NewsEdit. Amazingly easy interface. If you can, download the 30-day trial from Adobe.com. You will be grateful later.

 

I hope you don't get the ATS MediaDesk interface that marries InCopy and InDesign. It's a ticklish little application.

 

We had that with Quark at a previous stop. Except for its penchant of making stories/pages disappear, it was OK.

 

If you keep NewsEdit, make sure your IT guy works ALL the bugs out of the system before making the switch.
We made the switch from Quark to InDesign with NewsEdit, and there were so many bugs and so many people upset that we were late on deadline for about three weeks.

 

Thanks for the heads-up.

Next question... I've got Indesign 2 on my computer. I'm pretty sure that's far from CS2. But I'm thinking I'll learn something from spending some time on it anyways.

One thing I'm wondering about is how cutouts work. In the past I've used Photoshop to create a path which I then save as an EPS. How will that change when I move to ID CS2?

 

If I'm right, and I'm not sure, you can just keep it as a .jpg, or you can EPS it. I did cutouts at home, sent them to our color guys to put into NewsEdit, and got them back as .jpgs.
If I'm wrong, Doc, please advise.