Not for the faint of heart. This advanced interactive lesson in InDesign CS5 covers many of the interactive features of CS5. The Buttons panel, Animation, Timing, and Mult-istate Objects. We get them all working together to make a roll down menu that triggers a multi-state object. This could be very useful for many different projects with a little imagination and creativity. Don’t Forget you can follow mike on Twitter @CS_TV. Download example files from Roll down Menu_Start.indd.

Its so annoying when you see an InDesign document that has been put together with tabs and spaces all over the place. Common everyone lets get the tabs right and then put them into paragraph styles as well. Its not that hard when you see how to use the tab ruler. We do Right indent tabs, leaders and indent to here as well. What an awesome episode. Creative Sweet TV really is the home of well thought out tabs, and documents that allow for easy editing don’t forget you can follow Mike on twitter @cs_tv. Have a great Christmas break and thanks everyone for watching creative Sweet TV see you in 2011.

InDesign CS5 has a whole bunch of new interactive features. We take a close look at how to use the multi-state objects to create a simple image gallery. We use Adobe Bridge to drage and drop or place images, we also use the new corner effects. But more importantly than that we use the ugliest arrow heads ever and copy and paste them from Illustrator cs5 to create buttons that trigger out gallery!

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Dont you just hate it when you get a word or line of text left all by itself? Learn how to fix Widows and Orphans within InDesign Paragraph composer. Don’t switch it off man, it works really well if you know what to do. Use non breaking spaces and keep options to get it all sorted. Don’t forget you can follow Mike on Twitter @CS_TV

Learn how to use the InDesign CS5 Table of Contents feature. Its based on using Paragraph Styles to format your document. Once created the table of contents will be interactive when you create a PDF Ebook or even a .swf output. Learn how to style them and all about the options available when creating it. Don’t Forget you can now follow @CS_TV on twitter.

Can I use the Direct Export From InDesign to make press ready PDF files? Of course you can, its awesome. See what all the different settings mean to your PDF files. Not only that, in this episode of Creative Sweet TV we have a look the new Background Processes Panel in InDesign CS5. So if you want to have a good overview of exporting PDF files you’ve come to the right place.

Creating artwork for print has come along way with InDesign. You need to check for many things before printing, like missing fonts, resolution even specific spot colors. We take a good close look at the Live Preflight in InDesign CS4, it will do all of the heavy lifting for you if set up correctly.

If you would like some more info on the Adobe Content Server for DRM or even Digital Editions you should check out these pages. there is also a link to the content server on there, but you will have to have more than a man look. As well as all this there is also an excellent video on the topic from last Octobers Max conference in LA. It goes on for while but if you really need to make these things then this will help you do it.

Oh and if you have any questions you should ask the two masked banditos from the www.thequestionroom.com and follow them on twitter @thequestionroom Then of course there was that video of the digital version of wired magazine. Thats truely awesome. Its on Adobe TV.

Just aligning your text using the Justify button is just not good enough. However you can just watch this video tutorial all about the secrets of getting justified text looking just right. None of that horrible hyphenation either. Just letter space, word space and a little bit of typographic cheating is in order.

Learn how to create web galleries with Adobe Creative Suite 4. Use Adobe Bridge’s Output Module to create a Web Gallery very easily. Also Use InDesign and photoshop.com to create and Interactive Flash Gallery Too. There is loads to learn in this episode that shows 3 ways to create web Galleries with no coding.

The very first introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 4. Live from sunny Christchurch in N.Z. Mike is very excited about all 14 new point products and the 6 all new suites. A quick look at his favorite features. Get ready for fun with CS4 its gonna be a really fun time now we have heaps on new toys.

First look at Acrobat 9.0. This episode we take a file from InDesign CS3 and create an interactive PDF file. But wait Acrobat 9.0 is on the loose, and it plays very nicely with Flash, swf and flv video. Yep its all interactive creative sweet hi-jinx this week thats for sure. Why not sign up for the Acrobat 9 reader pre release and have a look here.

Creative Sweet TV needs your help. Heaps of Eydropper tips this week AND… I am really hoping you can help us complete our mission… A team of guys from work and myself are working on a project as part of a team builder. From 4.30pm today *April 10th) until 12pm tomorrow (Friday 11th of April) we are trying to sell one million pixels herehttp://millioneyesofsight.com. All the proceeds going to The Fred Hollows Foundation www.fredhollows.org.au and as the pixels are sold they will reveal a picture. Follow our progress at http://millioneyesofsight.comSo how can you help us complete our mission? Pixels can be bought for a donation $2 or more on the on the http://millioneyesofsight.com. Every donation of over $25 goes into a draw to win one of four copies of Photoshop CS3. For those of you in Australia this is fully deductible, tax receipts will be sent out to you. We need all the help we can get so if you would be so kind as to send this message on to five friends on my behalf and it will really help us.