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  designing CD

  Posted by Laszlo Kovacs on July 5, 2005 at 8:19 pm

  Hi!

  Is there any preset to create a design for a CD? (I saw the preset “Compact Disc” but this is only the booklet.)

  I need to create the inlay and the disk as well.

  Any help would be appreciated

  Laszlo
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  Life is too short to drink poor wine.

  Erica Gamet replied 20 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Kelly Johnson

  July 5, 2005 at 11:34 pm

  Not included with InDesignCS, I’m not sure about CS2. IllustratorCS has quite a few including a cd label. Do you have Illustrator CS?
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  Laszlo Kovacs

  July 6, 2005 at 7:41 am

  Yes, but haven’t installed yet (I was a long time CorelDraw user… and yet more familiar with that.)

  I’ll check Illustrator.
  BTW: there are a lot of free Quark templates on the Net. Is is possible to convert them to Indesign CS?

  Thanks!

  Laszlo
  *****************************
  Life is too short to drink poor wine.
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  Kelly Johnson

  July 6, 2005 at 2:40 pm

  if the templates are Quark version 3.3 or earlier than they could probably be converted as well as InDesign can.

  I’m not sure how InDesignCS2 has changed with regard to versions of Quark that it imports, but InDesignCS can only take up to Quark 3.3.
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  Laszlo Kovacs

  July 7, 2005 at 2:23 pm

  Thanks very much!!!

  Laszlo
  *****************************
  Life is too short to drink poor wine.
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  Erica Gamet

  July 28, 2005 at 4:36 am

  In regards to converting, InDesign CS can convert up to Quark 4.11…and I believe CS2 can convert through 5. If you have newer versions of files in Quark 6, you’ll have to save to 5, open in 5 and save to 4. Kind of a pain, but if you’ve invested lots of time in those files (or found really cool templates) it might be worth it. Sometimes, it’s easier to start with the elements of the templates (artwork, etc.) and recreate in InDesign. Hope that helps.

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