May, 2012 | CreativePro Network

Style Highlighting

A new free script can reveal at a glance where any style has been applied in your documents.

Mysteries of the Elliptical Overset Cell Symbol Revealed

Not all overset marks are the same, and when it comes to tables, paying attention to how the marks appear can make a difference!

Scanning Around with Gene: Let’s All Pile in the Station Wagon!

Until Chrysler introduced the first mini-van in 1983, most American families with more than two kids probably owned a station wagon at one time or another. In some ways the station wagon exemplified the American auto industry in its heyday — big, heavy, and hard to park. But we loved them as kids, and piling […]

Fonts on Friday: Influenced by the ’70s

What better time to round up new typefaces than on Friday. Not only is “Fonts on Friday” alliterative, but showcasing new fonts also seems like a good way to end the week. The fonts featured in this week’s installment have a decidedly ’70s vibe. The type and lettering of the ’70s often had a look […]

Finding Export PDF to Grayscale in InDesign CS6

InDesign CS6 makes it easier to create a grayscale version of your document…if you can find the feature.

Podcast 172

• InDesign CS6’s PDF Forms Features in depth
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: World-Ready Paragraph Composer

Adobe Muse Now Available

Last week I wrote about two upcoming products that can be downloaded from Adobe Labs — Muse and Edge. While Edge is still very much in development, Muse is now available for purchase. Muse is a Website-creation tool with a WYSIWYG interface and the process used is much like Adobe InDesign. It has familiar elements […]

iPad App Teaches Photoshop

Here’s a little-known gem: Adobe has created a free iPad app that lets you learn Photoshop through interactive tutorials. The Tutorial Player for Photoshop includes 12 step-by-step tutorials that teach image-editing tasks. Connect the iPad to your computer, launch Photoshop and then run the app. The Tutorial Player will then walk you through different image-editing […]