Welcome!

I’d like to welcome you on my brand new webpage! I really hope you like it and will find it useful!
Here is just short list what you expect to read here:

News – I’ll try to publish at least BIG and important news about Adobe and their products.

Tips & Tricks – Interesting and useful tips & tricks for InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and also for other programs from Creative Suite collection.

InDesign Scripts – Cool and handy InDesign scripts that helps you speed up your workflow.

InDesign Script Tutorials – If you want to learn how to write scripts for InDesign, you can find some good info here.

InDesign Extensions – Custom made InDesign panels.

InDesign Shortcuts – Shortcuts are great time savers! Want to learn them? Check out cool interactive shortcuts guide made in InDesign with all InDesign shortcuts!

Recent posts

HOW TO: Move your Creative Cloud Files folder

Posted in: News!|Tags: connection, creative cloud, Creative Suite, cs6, how-to |By: Marijan Tompa|21/11/20121 Comment

Yesterday Adobe announced long awaited Creative Cloud Connection preview app “that runs on your computer that allows you to easily manage your files on Creative Cloud and doesn’t require using the Creative Cloud web page to upload/download files” says Adobe. It’s working really great. As it says, it’s a preview release, and it will be …

Panel: tomaxxiGREP [enable/disable GREP expressions]

Posted in: Extensions, InDesign|By: Marijan Tompa|22/08/201111 Comments

Few months ago I’ve got an idea about creating a script, or something like that, to manage GREP styles. Unfortunately, I didn’t enough time to finish it. Finally, on Friday, I started to develop it, and after a few hours of coding I’ve finished the first beta release! So, let’s see how it’s working!

Mastering Live Captions

Posted in: Tips & Tricks|Tags: captions, InDesign CS5, live, Mastering Series |By: Marijan Tompa|27/04/20118 Comments

Live Captions were introduced in InDesign CS5 and functionality is the same in CS5.5 as well. Live Captions are very powerful when it comes to pulling metadata out of the image and displaying them on the page. But, why are they called “Live”? Because they are! They are like regular text variables, but they are …

Selection order is back in CS5.5!

Posted in: Scripting|Tags: InDesign CS5.5 |By: Marijan Tompa|25/04/2011No Comments

When I started scripting, about a year ago, I was really frustrated that app.selection didn’t returned correct selection order I used while selecting objects, instead, it returned sorted selection by object ID’s. To make things even worse, just few versions back, app.selection DID returned correct selection order! So, somebody messed things really bad!

Latest news…

In May 2011, I was at Print and ePublishing conference in Washington DC. It was a real pleasure to meet so many InDesign experts on one place! I’d also like to thank everyone who participated in funding my trip to the conference! The conference was awesome, and it was totally worth going! Here is short PePCon 2001 Recap by InDesignSecrets. Thank you Anne-Marie and David for this awesome happening!

Few pictures from the trip and PePCon 2011.