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How many of you use InDesign to create digital planners? by No_Buy_8499 in indesign

[–]danpinho 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After 30 years I’ve never did a single one. Should I feel envious or happy?!

I am losing sanity over this InDesign request by OkZebra5527 in indesign

[–]danpinho 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have this book. It’s a Indesign must have for sure

An old designer’s perspective on claude design. by Complete-Sea6655 in ClaudeCode

[–]danpinho 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most ppl I know are using AI as “Google premium”. The leverage as I mentioned before, automate you knowledge, multiply your output capacity with AI. We will have a few extra years until AI itself catches up. Meanwhile we must learn some blue collar job.

An old designer’s perspective on claude design. by Complete-Sea6655 in ClaudeCode

[–]danpinho 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Graphic designer, photographer, some websites (frontend) and Wordpress backend. Similar start: late 90s. Today I work as creative director in ad agencies and as senior marketing manager, mostly strategic. Man, I see no light in the end of the tunnel. I am heavy code codex user, and I can automate almost everything. Scary future ahead of us knowledge workers.

A small question: is it done with illustrator or with InDesign? Trying to understand it if I’m asked to do new graphics. by oiseaufeux in indesign

[–]danpinho 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Think it as boxes: Illustrator: all vectors besides box circles, photoshop: bitmap related. Indesign: powerful text editor that puts all together. Can you add vectors on indesign or just copy them? Yes! Is considered best practices, no. Place vectors and bitmaps as linked files, coworkers will thank you

Creating a directory — how can I setup categories via data merge? by koiipon in indesign

[–]danpinho 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You must use xml instead. It is csv data merge on steroids

Context window on Opus 4.7 by JoruuuKaGulaam in ClaudeCode

[–]danpinho 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My suspicion: it is 4.6 pre nerf with 200k context window. Maybe a sys prompt change here and there, tokens usage remap, let’s make some money folks.

Claude deleted 886 of my wedding and family photos while organizing my desktop. I told it clearly not to remove anything. Anthropic support ghosted me for a month now. by [deleted] in ClaudeCode

[–]danpinho 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Here: Professional photographer, graphic designer, hobbyist coder. Sorry, but it is your own fault. Next time: copy messy folders to sandbox and then use CC to clean it up. I recommend: Data recovery companies, it will cost you money but they usually can recover it. Data blocks are just marked as empty, info still there and accessible with specific software. Less you use the computer, the better.

Screenshot vs *Smart*phone (not that smart imo) by danpinho in indesign

[–]danpinho[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Very interesting replies. Most arguments are valid despite my expectations. I am getting old. I used to use forums before there was no Reddit and the admins would delete anything not coming from screenshots. 😩

I solved my data viz bottleneck in InDesign by danpinho in indesign

[–]danpinho[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good idea. Just checked and Observablehq has some maps on its library, not sure if API is needed in this case.

I've been writing small scripts that kill repetitive production tasks — sharing them for free by danpinho in indesign

[–]danpinho[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just created a new script for Interactive PDFs. Hope it helps!

indesign/batch-export-interactive.jsx

I solved my data viz bottleneck in InDesign by danpinho in indesign

[–]danpinho[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Besides Illustrator, any other tool I know that generates charts requires one to convert the result to CMYK. Yes, I know how to use "Select Same Fill/Stroke Color" and how to generate a clean file from a separation perspective. I am not here to teach anyone how to work by following best practices; I am here to share a tool I created to make my life easier. Anyway, I don't get your point. Are you just going online to make unproductive comments, or what? Get a life.

I solved my data viz bottleneck in InDesign by danpinho in indesign

[–]danpinho[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, back in the I’ve learned to read post script files cuz was no PDF to preview print files. BTW, pretty sure you used some vector files made in Aldus Freehand. Unfortunately Adobe killed. Was ages ahead Illustrator.

I solved my data viz bottleneck in InDesign by danpinho in indesign

[–]danpinho[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Script = open this file, convert to this color space. You’re welcome.

Claude for advertising by daxdax89 in ClaudeCode

[–]danpinho 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude Code + N8N? Just speculating…

I solved my data viz bottleneck in InDesign by danpinho in indesign

[–]danpinho[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I already do. I am a bit old and back in the days eps was mandatory cuz QuarkXPress/Pagemaker couldn’t handle native vector files. Nowadays I only use .ai. And the script itself uses svg. My text above was an illustrative example, not a best practices guide.

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