Steve Werner
About
Steve Werner is a trainer, consultant, and co-author (with David Blatner and Christopher Smith) of InDesign for QuarkXPress Users and Moving to InDesign. He has worked in the graphic arts industry for more than 20 years and was the training manager for ten years at Rapid Lasergraphics. He has taught computer graphics classes since 1988.
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Design + AI Summit 2025
Artificial Intelligence is creating a once-in-a-generation revolution for designers, writers, and artists. Learn how to put the power of generative AI tools to work for...
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
CreativePro Week is the world’s best how-to conference to master the tools of design, June 2-6, 2025 in Phoenix and Online. No matter your skill...
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.
Presentation Design Conference 2025
The essential how-to event for designers who need to create compelling slide decks, interactive experiences, and impactful presentations.
Design + AI Summit 2024
Join us online November 13–14, 2024 for The Design + AI Summit to learn how to thrive with AI tools.
Articles
See all articlesWorking with Arrowheads in InDesign
How to set options like arrowhead size, shape and position in InDesign
Working with Adobe Cloud Documents
Learn all about Adobe’s vision for the future of rapid collaboration.
Adobe is Ending Support for Type 1 Fonts
You still have plenty of time to upgrade your type library, but the end of the road is now in sight for Type 1 PostScript fonts.
What’s New in InDesign 2021
Improvements include subject-aware text wrap, HSB support, and the ability to find colors in a document!
InDesign and Acrobat: PDF Partners
This article appeared in Issue 134 of InDesign Magazine. While the applications can be used independently, you’ll gain powerful advantages by using the two of them together. In the early days of desktop computing, PDF and Adobe Acrobat paved the way for documents to be created, viewed, and printed with fidelity across platforms. We take it for […]
Accessibility and Pantone Tools Added to Adobe Color
Two new tools have been added to Adobe Color services this year: Just this month, a new feature was added to help identify and correct potential problems between colors when viewed by people with color blindness. The other tool lets you create a Pantone color theme, based on the colors in an existing color theme […]
InDesign’s Font Manager
Almost everyone who has used InDesign has encountered the dialog box shown below. This is telling you that one or more of the fonts in the document you just opened are missing. You have a choice here: You can ignore the problem by clicking Close, or you can fix the problem now. Clicking Close will […]
What's New with CC Libraries
When Adobe MAX arrived in Los Angeles the first week of November, it brought with it changes to all of the Adobe Creative Cloud applications. In the middle of all this, new changes and enhancements also came to the Adobe Creative Cloud infrastructure as well—including CC Libraries. CC Libraries (called Libraries in many other Creative […]
InDesign’s New Selection Cursor
Usually, “dot updates” to Adobe InDesign bring bug fixes or speed improvements and the 14.0.3 update which arrived Friday, August 30 update did that. But, unexpectedly, it also added a new Selection cursor. You may not have noticed, but an InDesign user on the Adobe Forums did: “I selected the ‘Selection tool’ (top tool with […]
macOS Catalina is Incompatible with InDesign CS6 and Earlier
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, held June 3 – 7, 2019, one of the key announcements was the introduction of macOS 15, to be known as macOS Catalina. As is usual for new macOS versions, the final version will be released to Macintosh users this coming fall, but beta versions were released immediately to […]