InDesign Magazine Issue 133: Object Styles

We’re happy to announce that InDesign Magazine Issue #133 (May 2020) is now available! Here’s what the issue includes: Object Styles: Laurie Ruhlin shows how to format any number of InDesign objects with maximum efficiency. PDF Forms: Chad Chelius details the process of building, exporting, and editing PDF forms. InDesigner: Addison Lalier shines a spotlight on […]

Issue 133: Object Styles

• Object Styles
• PDF Forms
• InDesigner: Cindy Kelley
• InReview: DocsFlow 3
• Best of the Blog

Podcast 275

• Super-simple keyboard shortcuts
• Obscure Feature: Rule Length

Photoshop Template: Gold Text FX

Use your own content to make text look like it’s made of solid gold.

CreativePro Video: Numbering Across Stories in InDesign

In this week’s CreativePro video, Sandee Cohen demos how to continue a numbered list across InDesign stories. By using a custom list style, sequences continue from one story to the next. Sandee then shows off a an easy way to re-order the stories and still maintain the proper sequence. New videos every Tuesday on our […]

Fixing a Broken JavaScript (and How To Avoid Breaking It in the First Place)

First, I freely admit this post might come across like an ad for Peter Kahrel’s book, JavaScript for InDesign. It also happens to be 100% true. And I’m writing it not because I felt the need to sell some books but because as a non-scripter, I was so excited that I actually took a broken […]

Proper Typography for Websites

In a previous post on my website, I wrote about the differences between typewriter quotes and real quotation marks, and how to do it right. I have received some nice feedback on that post. One person suggested that while it’s great to use proper quotation marks in printed material, it is impossible to get those same […]

InDesign How-to Video: Using Zoom Controls

In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Mike Rankin demonstrates how to zoom in and out of your InDesign document. Using menu items as well as all the keyboard shortcuts, he shows how to view by page or spread, zoom in on a particular area, and zoom way in or out numerically. Check out new tutorials every […]

A Script to Collect All Objects With A Particular Object Style

In the course of my editorial duties here at CreativePro, from time to time I’ll use the search feature to see what we’ve written on a particular topic. With thousands of posts and forum discussions spanning more than 20 years, you never know what might turn up! One recent find that I’m excited about is […]