Wow, happy new year everyone! It’s a brand new year, and we’re enthusiastic about all the wonderful InDesign stuff that’s coming down the road. But let’s focus on the great InDesign resources right in front of us… or at least, here in my browser!
- It’s never too late to make a new, cool calendar! But no one likes making calendars themselves. Instead, Rob Cubbon has made easy to use and customize templates for InDesign and Illustrator and is giving them away for free.
- How did I miss this great script that lets you use Data Merge with tables?! Or if I knew about it, I had completely forgotten. Looks awesome! Anyone use it on a real job yet?
- More really interesting scripts that I seem to have missed before include one to apply object styles based on the paragraph styles applied to the text wtihin, and this one which I have wanted for years: A script to sort sections of a story based on the section heading (which also comes with a youtube video that shows how it works)!
- The designer Erick Ragas is at it again, with Five Amazing Table of Contents for InDesign.
- I love seeing clever ways that people communicate through print. Check out these 10 very cool direct mail pieces, written up by foldfactory’s Trish Witowski.
- I’ve said it before: You need PatternMaker! It’s a great way to make background fills and other graphic elements. But don’t take my word for it (after all, I do have a small financial bias, as I helped write it)… Here’s Kelly Vaughn on the subject of doodling with an infinite variety of patterns!
- Here’s a trick that Kelly also found, to avoid the live corner effects being converted into bezier points.
- Sandee Cohen has been writing about InDesign recently at creativepro.com: Here’s a piece on using smart guides to align objects.
- This is a fun, pretty, and educational movie: How Printing Ink is Made
- Every InDesign user should understand why text sometimes goes completely missing from a frame.
- My friend Glenn Fleishman wrote up a great piece on the new fonts in iBooks (for epub).
- I’ve mentioned the excellent indexmatic script before (I even did a video on an earlier version of it, called InDesign: 10 Free Must-Have Scripts, at lynda.comat lynda.com). I just noticed that Marc has a FAQ for IndexMatic 2, which has a lot of great tips & tricks for using this powerful tool.
- Claudia McCue wrote up an interesting and odd problem having to do with spot colors imported from Illustrator (for things like die cuts).
- Cari Jansen is here to protect you from a terrible misfortune that lurks when exporting files to EPUB, if you have use forced line breaks.
Enjoy!
This article was last modified on December 21, 2021
This article was first published on January 3, 2012
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