Design tip bits

This tip is only for CS4 users. (IMHO it's worth getting if you don't have it yet ) Say you've made an illustration on an A4 sized artboard, but your illustration is a lot smaller and you want to get rid of the excess white paper. That can easily be solved. In the example below the black stroke is the A4 paper. 1. Draw a rectangle on top of the illustration. This will be your new page size. Make sure the rectangle is selected. 2. Select the Artboard Tool (shift o) to select the A4 artboard. 3. Double click on the rectangle. The rectangle now becomes the new page size. 4. Select the rectangle with the direct selection tool and delete it. You now have an artboard (page) the same size as the rectangle. And because it is fun friday check out this site Logolounge . Actually this is serious stuff for designers.

I had done some work at home on my fairly new imac OSX latest version etc. It was an InDesign CS4 document that I packaged and put on a USB stick. At work I needed to work on the document. It's the same type of Mac, InDesign CS4 english version, but when I opened the document an error message appeared complaining about Condtional text plugin updates and something else. Clicked OK, But InDesign could not open the document and told me to upgrade the plugins or the get lastest version of InDesign CS4. As far as I know we aren't yet higher then CS4 and I always update when prompted. Now it was panic time. When I asked a collegue what was going and I double clicked to open the document to show him the error, he noticed that InDy CS3 was trying to open the document and not automatically (as you would expect) CS4 (both were open on the computer), therefore the conflict with the plug-ins and new features and telling me to upgrade. Mac or InDy thing I don't know, but I'm glad I ...