March 24, 2011

Undo Firefox Update

I recently updated Firefox to 4.0 and much to my dismay, I couldn't use the browser after the update. I received a little pop-up warning telling me that I can't use this application with my current OS. I'm on a Mac running Tiger. The new update doesn't work a machine that's this old.
To revert Firefox to it's original state, I just needed to find a previous version of Firefox and install it. Firefox's website provides a nice little walk-through to find previous versions of Firefox. ANY version of Firefox, and in any language, for any platform.

Once you read the instructions, visit their FTP site to download the version that you want.

March 14, 2011

Ignore Text Wrap InDesign

The Text Wrap feature is great for flowing text around an object. This is applied to the image, and all text that encounters the object will be forced to wrap. However if you want some text to overlay the image, or come within close proximity, it must be allowed to break that Text Wrap Frame.

Here's how:

1) Create your text box and object and set your object to "Text Wrap". In this example I have it to wrap around the bounding box and to have a .125" offset the entire way around the object.


2) Select the text box that you want to ignore the Text Wrap. (In my example I want the words "Duis Autem" to appear overtop of the image.) Right click on the text and select "Text Frame Options"


3) In the pop-up window, click on "Ignore Text Wrap", then click "OK"

4) Now the text ignores the wrap.