Some eagle-eyed readers will be quick to point out that we missed my monthly round-up of articles in November. Well, that just means a giant bonus crop this month!
- Erica Gamet explains InDesign’s “Smart Text Reflow,” one of InDesign’s lesser-understood (but important!) features.
- You can easily replace one character with another using this new CC “context” feature
- Why would you want to use InDesign Server? Max Dunn explains it for you!
- This is a long, but educational video about making a poster in InDesign by Tidiane Diallo
- Hate that bright blue “style highlighter” feature? You can turn it off with a shortcut.
- OK, the holiday season is over, but that doesn’t mean you stop buying gifts (for others, or yourself!) Check out these great items that every designer will love.
- Your eyes aren’t deceiving you: InDesign’s user interface really has gotten “bigger” in the past year
- If you use Publish Online, don’t forget to check your document stats
- Here’s a cool free script that lets you copy and entire layer from one document to another
- Colin Flashman has recorded a great video on how and why to use the Separations Preview panel. Every InDesign user who is creating document for print needs to know how to do this!
- It’s always great to read about people’s experiences at The InDesign Conference, such as this article by Brett Kizner at MEI and
- I love this “image popping out of a frame” trick that Mike Rankin wrote up at CreativePro
- Speaking of CreativePro, I wrote a piece there about engraving and I encourage you to check it out! One of the authors of that book, Rose Gonella, also wrote a really fun book on design. Check out her funny interview here.
- And one more from CreativePro on how one company produces an 188-page catalog in 12 minutes using the services of Pagination.com.
- If you’re interested in the world of ebooks, it’s fascinating that the IDPF (the standards body for EPUB) is merging with the W3C. More on the controversy here.
- Holy mackerel, here’s a script that applies an object style to a group without affecting the objects inside the group. Yay!
- Here’s a one-page newsletter template you can get from Adobe
- Did you hear that Typekit is not just a subscription service anymore? Typekit Marketplace means they’re selling fonts, too. (But the subscription isn’t going anywhere.)
- Make sure you check out Diane Burns’ gallery of cool Publish Online projects that she curates… she’s added some new ones.
- I love looking at old, classic publishing tools (Letraset, Linotype, and so on)… if you’re like me, you’ll like this!
Enjoy!
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on December 30, 2016
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