On Wednesday 26 January 2005 23:43, John Kershaw wrote: > At 12:24 pm -1000 26/1/05, wayne wrote: > >Go to the Properties >Image window and click in either the X or Y Position > >boxes. You can use the scroll arrows, mouse scroll wheel or the keyboard > >arrow keys to nudge the image within the frame (after double clicking on > > the image). Holding down the Shift key will allow finer adjustments. > > Oh my. Oh my. What comes after lol & rotfl? I have eyes like saucers > (where's a webcam when you need one?) > > I was clicking the *image* and trying to use the cursor keys to move it. > > Is this, like, a normal Unix thing? I've never seen anything like > this on Mac or Windows. I could understand clicking the little arrow > widgets (though I'd have to look hard or be told to do it) but > pressing up/down in a text field to adjust the value? Bi-zarre! > > If you wanna snaffle any Quark/InDesign converts, you need to change > that behaviour. > > John.
And for other neat geeky,techy - but totally useful tricks: Set your preference in inches. Create a new blank A4 doc. Note the width is 8.2639 inches. Drag a guide our from the left side ruler. Drop it half way across the page. This guide needs to be *exactly* centered on the page. Then go: Page > Manage Guides (or right click the guide) Click in the X-Pos spin box Highligh all with a swipe of the mouse. Delete Then, type 8.2639/2 Click the Add button. Now you have a guide centered on the page within 1/10000ths of an inch precision. All spinboxes where you can directly input a value can do math operators. Try that with Quark. Cordially, Peter
