I’ve been sitting in a dark soundproof booth recently, recording videos for lynda.com (which is now a part of LinkedIn!) and getting into some nitty-gritty of InDesign features. If you’ve been looking at InDesign too much recently, it’s time to take a break: Look at stuff about InDesign instead!
- If you use Word and InDesign, you have to read Jamie McKee’s article on CreativePro about Moving Text From Word to InDesign
- Newspapers are making 1/10 of what they made a decade ago?! They need to innovate, but don’t have the resources, says this article.
- Here’s another excellent article about the new Adobe Comp “touch” app for doing layout on an iPad (and then sending it to InDesign)
- Resizing and Scaling are two of the most important things to know how to do in InDesign. Here’s a good tutorial from Adobe on how to do ‘em!
- I love the Next Style feature in InDesign, letting you quickly change from one paragraph style to another. Monica wrote up a nice how-to here.
- One of the ongoing problems of publishing tablet apps is how to get people to pay for them. Thus this cartoon about FastCo’s new app amused me.
- Making EPUBs from InDesign? If you care about the fonts your reader will see, you should read this article by Kevin Callahan (our new editor at epubsecrets.com)
- This isn’t about InDesign specifically, but rather how to tell a story through a stack, or a series of pages. It’s an interesting read Making this kind of story is quite easy with InDesign.
- Silicon Publishing is connecting the Adobe Experience Manager with InDesign Server, to interesting results!
- Have you ever opened a dialog box (such as File > File Info) and had it not show up? It might be sitting off-screen. Here’s one good solution for resetting that.
- It is important that you know the difference between “lettering” and “type.”
- Want your color or photo to “bleed” off the side of the page? Here’s a little tutorial on how to make sure it works right.
- Harbs has updated In-Tools ScriptBay, which stopped working recently.
- Erica Gamet has been writing about the Liquid Layout feature in InDesign recently. Check it out!
- Ever wanted to design your own font? Learn how Mark Simonson does it here. And then see how to do it for free here.
- But even more cool is IndyFont, which lets you design fonts using InDesign! I didn’t realize that it could even make alternate ligatures like a “% off” symbol!
- If you haven’t seen WordsFlow, you should check out how it lets you link MS Word documents to InDesign docs, so you can keep editing in both places.
Enjoy!
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on May 28, 2015
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Thanks for the IndyFont link. I am going to create an icon font with logos and such that our University uses frequently.