Steve Werner

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.

Speaking at these events

Event
The InDesign Conference 2025
December 9–12An Online Event

Available for purchase through March 12, 2026. On-demand access ends December 12, 2026. The essential how-to event for creative professionals who rely on Adobe InDesign.

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

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

Learn more
Archived
Free Webinar: Foundations of Accessibility
August 12–12

Learn the essentials of accessible design to help you confidently create inclusive content.

Learn more
Archived
The Design + AI Summit 2025
November 13–14An Online Event

Available for purchase through February 12, 2026. On-demand access ends November 14, 2026. Artificial Intelligence is creating a once-in-a-generation revolution for designers, writers, and artists….

Learn more
Archived
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2025
September 16–19An 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…

Learn more
Archived
CreativePro Week 2025
June 2–6Now 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…

Learn more
Archived
The Design + Marketing Summit 2025
July 28–30An Online Event

Master design and production techniques for social media, email, print, video, and more.

Learn more
Archived
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2024
October 8–10From 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.

Learn more
Archived
Presentation Design Conference 2025
March 12–14An Online Event

The essential how-to event for designers who need to create compelling slide decks, interactive experiences, and impactful presentations.

Learn more
Archived
Design + AI Summit 2024
December 9–10Archived Event

Join us online November 13–14, 2024 for The Design + AI Summit to learn how to thrive with AI tools.

Learn more
Article
Working with Arrowheads in InDesign

How to set options like arrowhead size, shape and position in InDesign

Learn more
Article
Working with Adobe Cloud Documents

Learn all about Adobe’s vision for the future of rapid collaboration.

Learn more
Article
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.

Learn more
Article
What’s New in InDesign 2021

Improvements include subject-aware text wrap, HSB support, and the ability to find colors in a document!

Learn more
Article
InDesign and Acrobat: PDF Partners

While the applications can be used independently, you’ll gain powerful advantages by using the two of them together.

Learn more
Article
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 […]

Learn more
Article
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 […]

Learn more
Article
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 […]

Learn more
Article
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 […]

Learn more
Article
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 […]

Learn more
CPW Icons

June 29–July 3, 2026

Nashville, TN (and online)