September, 2012 | CreativePro Network

Creating Inset Stroke Effects with Custom Stroke Styles

InDesign allows us to design our own stroke styles for dashes, stripes and dots. The following is a creative example of building and applying your own stripe.

Change Time in InDesign with Free TimeChange.jsx Script

Peter Kahrel has enhanced his terrific script for adding or subtracting hours from clock time in your documents

Taking Book Art to the Edge: Fore-Edge Paintings

At the start of this week, I posted a story about the Boston Public Library’s awesome Flickr photostream. While researching that story, I came across another cool tidbit about fore-edge painting, which refers to a style of book decoration where an artist would paint on the edge of a book’s pages. Most often these paintings […]

Mural.ly takes Pinterest to the Next Level

The rapid rise of Pinterest (10 million users and counting) shows just how much people love to have a place where they can discover and collect their favorite visual content. But what can you do with that stuff once you’ve collected it? All that pinning could be just the first step in a design workflow […]

Scanning Around With Gene: Back When Typesetting was a Craft

Last week I mentioned that I’m cleaning out my library, and took a look at some books on paste-up and page composition. Today I’m featuring images from a classic book on photo-composition written by John Seybold, who (along with his son Jonathan) was legendary in the typesetting industry and produced a widely-read newsletter that chronicled […]

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 96

New links, new stuff, new videos, new articles… Keeping up with InDesign is easy when you follow InDesignSecrets!

The Defenders of Comic Sans

Comic Sans. Two words that can strike fear and loathing into the hearts and minds of many creatives. Though like anything so universal and loud, the bashing of Comic Sans was probably bound to spawn a backlash at some point, and sites have sprung up around the internet to defend the indefensible font. Or, more […]

Mac OS Utilities and Add-Ons I Love

InDesign doesn’t live in a vacuum! You really should check out these Mac tools that help your productivity!

Creative Cloud Members Get Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition

Adobe has announced the immediate availability of the Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition to Creative Cloud members. This new benefit will allow subscribers to design and create an unlimited number of apps using InDesign (CS5 and later) and the new DPS App Builder, and then publish those apps to the Apple App Store and the […]