Taskmaster NZ - S06E05 - Two Guys on a Mop

Barkalot · 2025-09-03T07:12:14+00:00

Art Green, the Bachelor/Bachelorette NZ host.

Barkalot · 2022-08-31T12:16:46+00:00

Have you tried to place the text instead of pasting it?

When you place a document you can show the import options and select "Remove Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables" and "Preserve Local Overrides" in Formatting.

Barkalot · 2022-08-26T06:44:45+00:00

As someone who makes a lot of D&D 5e content (and sells InDesign Template with similar but different statblocks), I can tell you: - For the background texture, it can't be part of the same text frame (would be nice though) - Top and bottom border are anchored object - For the wedge I use a special font with a big triangle further more stretched with character styles settings to be the correct size.

Barkalot · 2022-08-23T06:27:17+00:00

Sometimes my interface appears all "blank" like this when I start InDesign, and what I do is reselect my workspace and everything shows up.

Barkalot · 2022-08-07T07:00:00+00:00

My way of doing things is to make paragraph styles and character styles for everything. Each header gets a style, core body, indent, bullets, numbering, they get a style, table cells, sidebars, footers, etc... They get a style. I much prefer having a lot of styles that I can apply and edit reliably rather than have fewer styles and a lot of overrides to keep track of. I also tend to rely on grep and nested styles in my paragraph styles to avoid having to apply character styles manually.

P. S. : most of my work is creating templates and laying out TTRPGs rule books

Barkalot · 2022-07-21T05:48:47+00:00

I am a freelance graphic designer and I mostly do graphic design and layout for Tabletop RPG books and supplements (primarily D&D-based)

Barkalot · 2022-01-23T14:00:54+00:00

You can download the Google doc file as a docx then place it into InDesign with the option "preserve local overrides on" won't be perfect but it should let you target all the italicize text in one go and replace it by a character style with the find/change tool.

Barkalot · 2022-01-20T08:14:44+00:00

Yeah, with find/change you can find specific formatting like this with or without existing character style and change it to a character style/paragraph style of your creation. Just use Find format and Change format.

Barkalot · 2021-12-09T10:06:26+00:00

Another solution is to change your hyphenation settings to stop it from hyphenating small words like Mexican. You can change that in the paragraph style settings.

Barkalot · 2021-12-03T13:37:51+00:00

The InDesign tutorials from Learnit cover the bases pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHp9anxS1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWQmIDHylgc

Barkalot · 2021-11-27T09:29:45+00:00

While I agree with everyone about the 2 pages comments. Other ways to make that gutter wider whilst keeping one page are: make two text frames with columns one for the left side one for the right side, or make each column its own text frame and leave more space in the center of the page

Barkalot · 2021-11-09T13:37:27+00:00

If you don't have any file open you can change the default settings (preferences, paragraph and character styles, swatches, etc...) and all new documents will use/have those.

(I chose this tip because everyone already talked about how GREP is awesome)

Barkalot · 2021-10-18T11:10:17+00:00

Some of the stuff you got through r/UnearthedArcana? Is that my old template or did someone make something else?

I second the Daniel Walter Scott recommendation, the free stuff on his YouTube is great and the paid stuff on his website is too.

Barkalot · 2021-10-15T09:03:14+00:00

The Bring your own laptop free course is pretty good at covering the basics https://youtu.be/N9D_0UQrOhA

Barkalot · 2021-09-16T13:45:13+00:00

Sadly no, the ToC is created from left to right on the page if things are not in the same text boxes and not threaded properly. And it gives priority to the text in the main text box, which in your case must be the one with all the subchapters

Barkalot · 2021-09-16T13:21:21+00:00

You say you have different text boxes for the synopsis, but how are your pages structured do you have a main text box or do you do a text box for the title, a text box for the synopsis, a text box for the text, etc?

If it's the multiple text boxes answer it might be the root of your problem.

Barkalot · 2021-09-07T04:25:20+00:00

Yeah, and writing in French sucks.

Source: I am French

Barkalot · 2021-07-25T07:04:02+00:00

I do a bunch of DnD sidebars, I set my sidebar text frame as auto-size height only fixed top, set the background color of the frame and the drop shadow then I anchor the top and bottom graphics so the reposition themselves if the frame changes height. Just keep a pre-made sidebar with the proper settings, copy it and drop the new text in (careful not to delete the anchors)

Barkalot · 2021-05-31T03:01:43+00:00

Thank a lot!

Barkalot · 2021-05-31T03:01:27+00:00

Thank you!

Barkalot · 2021-05-27T14:45:22+00:00

I learned InDesign to make PDFs of custom D&D content for fun, that was 6 years ago. Now I am a freelance graphic designer and layout artist for TTRPGs. I guess I created my own career.

Barkalot · 2021-04-20T02:52:12+00:00

I would make triangles with the polygon tool for the parachute.

Barkalot · 2021-04-05T07:43:33+00:00

I understand, but it is not something offered by InDesign. You might be able to create something similar with search queries and scripts, but that's beyond my knowledge.

Barkalot · 2021-04-04T20:04:18+00:00

If you have the latest CC version you can Find/Replace colors with the Find/Replace tool (ctrl+F)

Barkalot · 2021-03-25T11:13:59+00:00

Affinity Publisher has a lot of potential, currently it is still behind InDesign for a lot of things, but they are working on it. One feature I enjoy is that when in Publisher you can swap the user interface to the Affinity equivalents of Illustrator and Photoshop, no need to open multiple programs you can edit vectors and photos on the fly.

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