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This article was originally published in InDesign Magazine issue 55 (August–September 2013). Subscribe now! The future of publishing may rest upon HTML. Whether or not that’s true, only time will tell. But there’s no denying that a vast amount of content has been structured and formatted in HTML. Typically, our challenge as designers is getting content out of […]

Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, June/July 2011 (issue 42). Subscribe now! In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you can also download the excerpt as a PDF that retains the full design of the magazine. This PDF is best viewed in Adobe Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader. Data and design might seem […]

Pros: Span- and split-column paragraphs, multiple page sizes, Illustrator-style Layers panel, numerous simplified transformation options, dynamic metadata captions, text track changes, and an expansive new set of animation and interactivity features. Cons: SWF export doesn’t include scalable animations, no split columns in table cells, longstanding rotation behavior removed, Document-installed Fonts feature on Mac platform supports […]

This article is excerpted from the February/March 2010 issue of InDesign Magazine, #34. Buy this issue or subscribe to InDesign Magazine. Every InDesign user has a mental list of “I wish InDesign could…” features rattling around in their heads. We wait and hope the next version will answer these wishes, but that doesn’t always happen. […]

This article is excerpted from Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts, published by Adobe Press. The concept of separate paragraph and character styles was around long before InDesign in applications like PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Word. QuarkXPress had a close-but-no-cigar implementation of character styles when they were added to […]

While I’m getting my next (overdue) videocast finished, I’ve been answering a lot of questions by e-mail, so I thought I’d step out of my little corner of InDesignSecrets.com and contribute one of these answers to the blog. Brendan said: “I have a inherited a job where I need to cut and paste photographic images […]