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The Design + Accessibility Summit 2025
Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at our four-day online event on September 16–19, 2025
CreativePro Week 2025
Available for purchase through September 6. On-demand access ends June 6, 2026. CreativePro Week is the world’s best how-to conference to master the tools of...
The Design + Marketing Summit 2025
Master design and production techniques for social media, email, print, video, and more.
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2024
Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at our four-day online event on October 8–11, 2024.
Design + AI Summit 2024
Join us online November 13–14, 2024 for The Design + AI Summit to learn how to thrive with AI tools.
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See all articlesRecosoft releases PDF2ID 2020
PDF to InDesign® 2020 converter tool ships Osaka, Japan, November 14, 2019 – Recosoft Corporation the creators of workflow automation plug-ins and tools for Adobe® Creative Cloud® and developers of PDF conversion applications has shipped PDF2ID 2020; the latest version of the PDF-to-InDesign converter plug-in for Adobe InDesign 2020. PDF2ID 2020 supports Adobe InDesign 2020 […]
Adobe Launches All-in-One Creative App, InDillushop/XD, Replacing Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
[Editor’s note: This was our 2019 April Fool’s Post] In a surprise mid-cycle move, Adobe announced today that their three core Creative Cloud applications — Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign — are being replaced with a new all-in-one application, InDillushop/XD. “We took the best and left the rest,” said Bryan L., Senior Vice President of Technology. “InDesign and those […]
What Kind of InDesign User Are You? (Quiz)
Answer the questions, tally your points, and discover your InDesign personality! A. What is your level of InDesign expertise? I know everything there is to know. I’m somewhere between “beginner” and “advanced”—it depends on the day. B. Do you wish you could be more efficient and productive in InDesign? No, thanks. I’m comfortable working at a plodding pace while my colleagues […]
GREP in InDesign Excerpt: Learning by Example
Get started learning the basics of GREP in InDesign in this free excerpt from Peter Kahrel's renowned book, now in its 3rd edition.
“Corrupt InDesign File” Horror Stories
Follow these steps to ensure that your file doesn't become the next InDesign horror story.
News Expose: Is InDesign Using Your Private Data For Advertising?
News: 1 April, 2018 [Editor’s note: This was our 2018 April Fool’s Post] We at InDesignSecrets have spent many months investigating an insidious plan by a secret committee inside Adobe called the Design-to-Sell (D2S) group, which has infiltrated the engineering teams of products such as InDesign in order to implement one of the most devious […]
100 Great InDesign Tips
In excerpts from Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman, this article explains the psychological effects of fonts on the reader, for the purpose of helping you use type more effectively.
How to Reset the Recent Documents List in InDesign
With this InDesign tip, you can refresh the display of recent documents in the File menu.
New from Adobe: InDesignLite™ (Finally!)
[Editor’s note: This was our 2017 April Fool’s Post] Have you ever tried to help a new user figure out InDesign? They stare at the interface as though it was the Mars Rover control panel, no idea where to start or what to click. Well, Adobe has the solution: InDesignLite is being released today, the […]
CreativePro Week Conference Speaker Spotlight: Chad Chelius, the Walking Encyclopedia for EPUBs
Welcome to our Speaker Spotlight series, designed to highlight some of our CreativePro Week 2017 Conference speakers, which will be in Atlanta, Georgia, May 22–26. We’ve assembled a dream team roster of Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator gurus, and thought you’d like to get to know what makes them tick, why they’re passionate about what they […]