Diane Burns

Diane Burns

About

Diane Burns is an author, trainer, consultant, and founder of San Francisco-based TransPacific Digital, a localization design firm. She is an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign and provides custom training and consulting services to corporations and publishing companies worldwide. A regular contributor to InDesign Magazine, she is the co-author of Digital Publishing with Adobe InDesign CC and an author of several titles for Lynda.com.

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InDesigner: Weldon Owen Publishing

Beautiful samples and an interesting interview by Diane Burns.

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InDesigner: Jacek Utko

Diane Burns interviews one of Europe’s most successful newspaper designers.

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Recipes for Applying—and Ignoring—Text Wrap in InDesign

Learn when to apply and when to ignore Text Wrap in InDesign.

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Creating Effects with Paste Into in InDesign

Paste Into creates a bounty of visual opportunities.

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InDesigner: Da Capo Press

Diane Burns shares the story of a publisher whose cookbooks promote good nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices, Da Capo Press.

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Controlling Table Strokes

Editor’s Note: this post was excerpted from Diane’s handout from CreativePro Week 2017. This year, Diane spoke about Engaging Interactive Documents and Publish Online. Sign up for a Virtual Pass so you don’t miss out! One of most effective things you can do to improve the appearance of your tables is to change the pattern of […]

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Creating an Animated Bar Chart in InDesign

Editor’s Note: this post was excerpted from Diane’s handout from CreativePro Week 2018. This year, Diane will be speaking about Engaging Interactive Documents and Publish Online. There’s still time to register, or sign up for a Virtual Pass so you don’t miss out! Any chart or graph that you use in your InDesign documents can be […]

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InDesigner: BUST Magazine

Diane Burns shares the story of the first feminist-oriented lifestyle magazine.

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What I Learned at CreativePro Week About Publish Online

One of my very favorite events is CreativePro Week, and this year’s conference, held in New Orleans from June 4–8, was one of the best ever. It was a week of so many educational and entertaining sessions, and gave us all an opportunity to meet and chat with other creative professionals, along with great food […]

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Four Terrific Table Techniques

Diane Burns offers up a cool quartet of tactics to get your tables noticed.

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June 29–July 3, 2026

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