Rufus Deuchler
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Presentation Design Conference 2026
The essential how-to event for anyone who creates, designs, or delivers presentations.
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2025
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...
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 + 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.
Articles
See all articlesGetting Started with Data Merge in InDesign
Learn how to automate repetitive layouts in InDesign
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.
