Rufus Deuchler

Rufus Deuchler

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Speaking at these events

Event
The Presentation Design Conference 2026
February 17–20 • An Online Event

The essential how-to event for anyone who creates, designs, or delivers presentations.

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Archived
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2025
September 16–19 • An Online Event

Available for purchase through December 19. On-demand access ends September 19, 2026. Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at…

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Archived
CreativePro Week 2025
June 2–6 • Now Available On Demand

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…

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Archived
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2024
October 8–10 • From the Archives

Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at our four-day online event on October 8–11, 2024.

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Article
Getting Started with Data Merge in InDesign

Learn how to automate repetitive layouts in InDesign

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Article
Create a Classical Page Grid in InDesign

This article originally appeared in InDesign Magazine #35, April/May 2010. Subscribe now! Look at the pages of the book below, an early 1900s edition of Les Fleurs du Mal. What are your first impressions? Do you get a sense of timelessness? Do you feel comfortable? Do you feel like you could read it easily? There […]

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Article
Spot Colors and Transparency Flattening in InDesign CS3

I was preparing a demo on transparency flattening and to my great surprise there are some very interesting news in InDesign CS3. What I wanted to show was the “White Box Effect” which Steve Werner described very well in this post. The problem happens when transparency is flattened over an object with a Spot Color. […]

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Article
Cast Shadows in InDesign

Greetings InDesign users! My name is Rufus Deuchler and I am a graphic designer, trainer and consultant currently living in beautiful Florence, Italy. I am very excited about this opportunity that has been given to me to contribute to InDesign Secrets, and this is my first post. I was reading Sandee’s post about the Free […]

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Article
How to Set Better Looking Body Text in InDesign

Learn how to set preferences and tweak justification attributes to improve the look of body text.

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CPW Icons

June 29–July 3, 2026

Nashville, TN (and online)