Adobe InDesign – Easter Eggs

THE FRIENDLY ALIEN

Define a print preset from the File menu > Print Presets> Define. Call it Friendly Alien (with capital F and A). Then go to File>Print and select your new print preset. Click on the page display in the print dialog...

Still works in InDesign CS2.

ABOUT INDESIGN

Bring up the About Indesign screen.

Type "bounce" (without the citations).

Watch the bouncing balls...

And here are two similar ones, provided by David Blatner, co-author of Real World Adobe Indesign CS, who writes:

Open the About InDesign dialog and type in "mandel" (introduced in v1)
Open the About InDesign dialog and type in "svg" (introduced in v2)

NOTE: Neither of these work in InDesign CS2.

STROKESTYLES

Happy

Create a Stroke style.

Call it Happy.

Draw a shape and give it the stroke Happy.

You might have to make the stroke-width larger than 1 point to see the effect.

Woof

Create a Stroke style.

Call it Woof.

Draw a shape and give it the stroke Woof.

You might have to make the stroke-width larger than 1 point to see the effect.

Feet

Create a Stroke style.

Call it Feet.

Draw a shape and give it the stroke Feet.

You might have to make the stroke-width larger than 1 point to see the effect.

Rainbow

Create a Stroke style.

Call it Rainbow. Note: stroke has to be of type stripe.

Draw a shape and give it the stroke Rainbow.

You might have to make the stroke-width larger than 1 point to see the effect.

If you create these stroke styles without a document open, you will then have them in all new documents you create, ready to use.

Lights

Create a Stroke style.

Call it Lights.

Draw a shape and give it the stroke Lights.

You might have to make the stroke-width larger than 1 point to see the effect.

If you create these stroke styles without a document open, you will then have them in all new documents you create, ready to use.

Thanks to Steve Nichols who tipped about this one. Very useful for Chistmas decorations.

All the above strokestyles work also in InDeisign CS2.