CreativePro Magazine Issue 12 Now Available
We’re happy to announce that CreativePro Magazine Issue #12 (October 2022) is now available!
Here’s what the issue includes:
By the Book: Using the Book Panel in InDesign
Learn how to use the Book panel to make any long-document project more manageable—not just books!
Get Found: Take Advantage of Location Data in Lightroom
Use location tools in Lightroom to pinpoint your favorite photo spots.
CSI: InDesign
A little forensic skill can save your bacon when you need to create a new version of an old project.
InFocus: Autumn 2022
A roundup of tools, fonts, add-ons, assets, and other InDesign-centric goodies.
Vintage Vectors: The Enduring Power of Blends in Illustrator
Take a deep dive into the amazing (and at times unexpected) power of vector blends.
Resource of the Month: 10 Scripts for Long Documents
Ten great free scripts to speed up your long document workflow.
Marking Content in InDesign with Object Styles
How to use objects styles that make it easy to spot images that need work
A Script to Avoid the “Delay with Missing Fonts” Bug in InDesign
This script can save you a huge amount of time and aggravation when opening InDesign files with missing fonts.
Fixing CMYK Images Over Your Ink Limit in Photoshop
Learn how to lower total ink in an image and still get the best results for your output conditions.
How to Make Realistic 3D Text in Illustrator
Learn how to use Illustrator to add realistic 3D text to an image.
Creating Cross-References with a Page Range
When you need to reference a range of pages in InDesign the solution is to make two cross-references that look like one.
Remember, you can find every issue of CreativePro Magazine and InDesign Magazine here, or by clicking Magazine above. Members get this month’s issue plus access to all back issues of CreativePro Magazine and InDesign Magazine! Enjoy!
I have an account with Creative Pro Magazine, but the link for downloading Issue #12 has not been working for me.
Steve Werner
Thanks for the heads up, Steve. Try it now. By the way, you can always get any issue by clicking Magazine at the top of any page. https://creativepro.com/issues/
Kudos to Keith Gilbert for his excellent article in Issue 12 on making books. Yet from my experience, designers working alone are better off working in a single InDesign file. The Book feature, despite the advantages Keith describes, tends to mostly complicate long document construction. I mention this because over the years I’ve run into novice designers who assumed the Book feature was to be used when designing books. Some even made each chapter a separate ID document (guilty as charged) in the Book panel. Not that this strategy is wrong, it’s just unnecessary and over-complicates the production process. Perhaps if Adobe got serious and updated the Books feature I might feel otherwise. But until that happens (and regardless of the pub’s length), stick with one .indd file per book.