Episode 313
Podcast 313
• InDesign 19.01 update • Secrets of the Align Panel and the Gap Tool • Obscurity: Auto Update URL Status
- In the news
- InDesign 2024 updated to 19.01
- Register for the Design + AI Summit!
- CreativePro Magazine November 2023: Multilingual Design, Glyphs panel in depth
- Secrets of the Align Panel and its weirdo cousin, the Gap tool
- Obscure Feature of the Week: Auto Update URL Status
Links mentioned in this podcast
- Great article about Glyphs panel:
https://creativepro.com/digging-into-the-glyphs-panel/ - Align panel tutorials:
- Setting Exact Space Between Objects in InDesign
- What and Where is Distribute Spacing?
- InDesign How-to Video: Use the Align panel
- Align Panel Enhancements
- InDesign How-to: Make a Mondrian-inspired Grid
- InDesign Basics: Making a Photo Grid
- The Right Way to Vertically Distribute Text Frames
- A quick way to abut the edges of 2 (or more) objects
Gap Tool Articles:
- What Exactly Does That InDesign Tool Do?!
- Creating a Dynamic Autofit Effect for Image Grids With the Gap Tool
- The Gap Tool and Groups
- Split Images That Span Across Two Pages
The “Spring Loaded Tool” tip: https://creativepro.com/spring-loaded-tools/
The Tool Hints panel: https://creativepro.com/using-tool-hints-panel/
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