This Month in InDesign Articles, February 2018
It’s time for another round up of great InDesign articles from all around the Web. Enjoy!
- Adobe hasn’t released a fully updated InDesign manual for a while… but here’s a new one as a downloadable PDF!
- Want to move your content out of InDesign and onto the Web? There are several ways to do it… for example, Chris Converse shows how to tag your text and objects so that they’ll export well.
- Colin Flashman has been working on a new calendar script, but it’s not done yet… in the meantime, he does offer a new free script that helps you create calendar “page planners” (read to the end to see link).
- Do you speak Japanese? If so, you should watch this new title at LinkedIn Learning about setting vertical type in the CJK version of InDesign.
- Adobe is 35 years old! Favorite line from that interview: “We’re witnessing a sea change in how consumers are interacting with companies. They want to buy experiences, not just products.”
- Need to import MathML into InDesgin? Scand has a MathML importer now. (I’m not sure how it compares with MathTools from movemen.)
- If you’re having trouble (like crashing) when you try to save to a network drive, look at this little patch Adobe released.
- Like fonts and type? You need to subscribe to the new TYPE magazine!
- Want to learn more about making multi-document books with InDesign? Check out this great tutorial from Alain Paradis.
- Sappi paper has always put an emphasis on education, which I appreciate. They have a new site called “Sappi Pops” which is fun to browse through.
- Are you developing templates or other InDesign add-ons? A new Adobe Exchange is coming!
- Want to make your own planner? Here’s a fun, upbeat video tutorial.
- Do you want to make sure you (or your team) can’t export a PDF unless the Preflight panel is clear (no errors)? You gotta’ see this “by request only” script Colin wrote!
Enjoy!
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Hi, I can’t find any professional documentations about QR-codes with Data Merge in InDesign. A new client would do this with several hundreds different name. For me the problem is that it should be V-Cards. Can’t find even no docu about the Java Script “AddQRCode.jsx”. Does anyone have great references to share?
Kind regards
Paul
I’ve written a piece for InDesignSecrets expanding on QR codes for data merge: https://creativepro.com/data-merge-qr-codes-explained.php
What complicates QR Codes is what the QR Code reader can interpret. There are QR Code readers out there that can add iCal events based on the correct syntax, but not all QR Code readers can. A really good article about what syntax is or is not acceptable can be found here: https://github.com/zxing/zxing/wiki/Barcode-Contents
Try these links:
https://www.tech4pub.com/2015/02/03/indesign-cc-tip-adding-qr-codes-with-data-merge/
https://blog.imagesmith.com/2014/07/18/qr-codes-indesign-cc-2014-data-merge/
Thank you for featuring two of my scripts in this month’s round-up.
Just an update about the wall-planner script – I have figured out the issues that were holding the script back, and the script is now available from my downloads page. It’s a free script that I’m making available to the public. I will be releasing a paid pro-version with additional features, but at a later date.
So far as the “preflight enforcer” script – there are a couple of reasons that I’ve made this “by request” but none of those reasons involve money – this is a free script. However, the script is a lot of work and before I invest too much time in its development, I wanted to see how much demand there was for a script like this. Ultimately, I’d like preflight to be a much larger feature of InDesign so that when exporting a PDF or printing a document, there’s a “traffic-light” style warning in the appropriate dialog, or at least treat preflight more seriously in a way that Circular Software’s Greenlight does.
Not long until New Orleans now!
You wrote: ‘ I’d like preflight to be a much larger feature of InDesign so that when exporting a PDF or printing a document, there’s a “traffic-light” style warning in the appropriate dialog …’
I searched on ‘preflight’ at indesign.uservoice.com; there were few results. I suspect that many people find preflight as currently implemented in ID overwhelming.