This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 37

David Blatner

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People use InDesign to set type in all directions: left to right, right to left, top-to-bottom, and even inside-to-outside (that’s used mostly for transcendental texts, of course). But however you set text and graphics, there’s always more to learn. Here’s some links that can help:

• If you speak Hebrew or are living in Israel, here’s a great Hebrew-language InDesign site you should know about. Feel free to post a link to your favorite non-English language InDesign site below.
• Many InDesign Magazine articles have been republished at creativepro.com and are available to anyone. There’s some excellent stuff here:
  • How-To: Solve Layout Dilemmas with Tables
  • Transparency: No Longer the Forbidden Fruit
  • How-to: Take Object Styles Where They’ve Never Gone Before
  • InDesign Tutorial: Preflight Files in CS4
  • Whip up a few tasty treats using InDesign?s text wrap features
  • Ten tips for creating an InDesign file that prints perfectly
  • Analyze Images in InDesign Documents
  • Making eBooks from InDesign, Part 1
  • Making eBooks from InDesign, Part 2

• ?If you missed the comment on the forums about it, check out this interesting font manager, built as a panel inside InDesign CS5.
• Want to know more about the new (and great) MultiFindChange add-on? Check out this little movie made by IDS contributor Cari Jansen.
• This was an amusing tweet image by contributor Mike Rankin about eBooks and InDesign.
• Do you use Acrobat Portfolios? If not, why not? Here are some free customized portfolio templates you can use.
• If you have ever wanted to learn more about resolution, you should watch this great videocast by the excellent Mike McHugh.
• If you’re using CS5, or you’re thinking about upgrading, check out this short “5 hidden gems” movie by Brian Wood.
• Do you use WordPress? Here’s a new program (in beta) for moving wordpress content to InDesign!
• How is InDesign Magazine made? Listen to editor-in-chief Terri Stone talk to Deke McClelland and Colleen Wheeler on the Martini Hour.
• Print is far from dead! Learn more about print and printing press problems.

Happy InDesigning!