In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Laurie Ruhlin shows off the power of InDesign’s Align panel. She demos using a key object to control where the alignment happens and shows how to specify an amount of spacing between objects. Check out new tutorials every other Tuesday on our InDesign Secrets YouTube channel, then join the discussion […]
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This article appeared in Issue 131 of InDesign Magazine. How to speed up your workflow and reduce errors by having InDesign take care of your checklist items These days, you hear a lot of talk about automation and which jobs will be done by machines or artificial intelligence. While society grapples with the larger implications of this, […]
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OK, you know how sometimes you’re sure you’ve done something, but then you realize — oops! Didn’t actually happen? Well, that’s me, right now… thinking that I had published this set of articles back in January! But no… it’s not there. Sorry everyone! Actually, some of these links go back several months, but they’re still […]
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Wouldn’t it be cool if you could select objects on your page without having to click on them with a tool? These scripts make it easy!
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Press Release SANTA BARBARA, CA. – You’ve seen his typefaces in comic books worldwide, on grocery store shelves, in Pixar movies and on billboards from coast to coast. After creating nearly 300 font families for the Comicraft studio, John Roshell — creator of the iconic Angry Birds, Black Panther, and Daredevil logos — is launching […]
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If you regularly have to insert accented characters or other glyphs that have no handy keyboard equivalent, here’s some news of a free script that may help make the job easier. It’s called InstantUnicode, written by Marc Auret, and available at Indiscripts.com. After you run the script, each time you enter a codepoint it will […]
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This article appeared in Issue 131 of InDesign Magazine. Psychologists have shown that we humans are often blind to things we’re not looking for, especially when we’re in hot pursuit of a goal! This is so true in InDesign, where we are often so focused on getting our work done that we completely overlook the myriad features […]
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In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, David Blatner shows how to create a layout with photos in a grid using a free extension called Photo Flinger. Check out new tutorials every other Tuesday on our InDesign Secrets YouTube channel, then join the discussion on our Facebook group!
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This article appeared in Issue 131 of InDesign Magazine. This trusty plug-in for converting pdf files to editable InDesign documents can get you out of a tough spot. In an ideal world, when a client wants you to edit an old layout they give you the InDesign file, along with all the images and graphics used in […]
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