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Using Data Merge to Create a Table for a Directory
This amazing free script lets you do something you’ve never been able to do in InDesign before: Use the Data Merge feature with tables!
Continue readingScanning Around With Gene: The Mermaids of Weeki Wachee
Despite having made quite few trips to Florida over the years, I’ve never really had an opportunity to see much in the way of tourist attractions, which is too bad, as Florida has (and has had) some great ones. I’ve never been to Disney World or any of the adjacent theme parks, never been to […]
Continue readingHow Men and Women Name Colors
Shakespeare wrote that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But would that flower still look the same if we started calling its color "dusty mauve" instead of "rose"? Everyone perceives color differently, so we have trouble coming to a consensus about the some of the names we attach to the colors […]
Continue readingMoo to Offer NFC Business Cards
Your business cards speak to potential clients and customers, reminding them of who you are and what you do when you’re not around. But what if those cards could also speak directly to cellphones and other electronics? That would open up all kinds of possibilities for creative communication and commerce. And that’s the thinking behind […]
Continue readingPodcast 181
ITUNES RSS FEED DOWNLOAD Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-181.mp3 (15 MB, 28:06 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Or view the transcript of this podcast. Out and About: David’s trip to Lindau, Anne-Marie’s trip to California News: Adobe Digital Editions 2.0, Kindle Plug-in for InDesign 0.971, new open source Adobe fonts Data […]
Continue readingFourMatch, the lie detector for photos
Back in June, I wrote a story on a new company that was developing software for digital imaging forensics. The company is named Fourandsix Technologies (get it?) and now they’ve released their first commercially available product. It’s called FourMatch and it is a Photoshop extension that provides evidence as to whether a JPEG file has […]
Continue readingPantone's SkinTone Guide
In any photograph prominently featuring people, the skin tones are the most important (and difficult) colors to reproduce. This is because we instinctively have a sense of what skin is supposed to look like, and skin tones are composed of a delicate mix of colors. Get the proportions wrong and you have people with gray, […]
Continue readingInDesign CS6 8.0.1 Update Fixes EPUB, PDF, Other Problems
Adobe updated InDesign CS6 to version 8.0.1, fixing many problems with EPUB and PDF export, as well as other problems. Recent postings in the user forums the past few months have complained about failure of some buttons to work when PDF was exported, and that is now reported to be working. There were several EPUB […]
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