This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 102
Great effects, terrific tips. All in this roundup of InDesign links you should know about!
I love reading about InDesign? or watching InDesign videos? or thinking InDesign thoughts? here’s lots of stuff to keep you busy, no matter what InDesign-related activity you enjoy!
- Mike Rankin shows a truly awesome and very simple method for skewing (fake perspective) text in InDesign
- You can find some fun wallpaper images for the Adobe Creative Suite (including InDesign, of course) here. The wallpaper shows many tool shortcuts.
- Need to create an index for your document? IndexMatic might be the way to go; the FAQ and sample pages have been updated.
- This is awesome: 140+ InDesign and Creative Tasks You Didn’t Know You Could Automate? a list of scripts, plug-ins, and add-ons you just have to know about.
- CreativeBloq points out three things you might not have known you could do in InDesign.
- Check out this short movie called “Canons of Page Construction” to see how Jan Tschichold, J. A. Van de Graaf, and Raúl Mario Rosarivo created grids for book design.
- Are you somewhere near Delhi? If so check out their InDesign User Group!
- free Expo Only Pass or a $50.00 iFan pass, use this link
- Near Boston? Want to learn how to build your own typefaces? CraftingType looks cool!
- Just after writing up this new article that uses the span columns and paragraph rules features, I found this Tech4Pub piece on how span columns works. And here’s one by Nigel French at CreativePro (reprinted from InDesign Magazine) on paragraph rules!
- I’ve been saying this for years: “Why Printed Books Will Never Die” (though they leave out my favorite thing about printed books: they sit there on the floor or table calling to you until you pick them up)
- Rolling Stone magazine is now a DPS app
- Remember print? In case you don’t, it involved a process called printing. This wonderful movie from 1947 tells us how it worked.
Enjoy!
This article was last modified on December 30, 2021
This article was first published on January 24, 2013
