This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 126

There is more in the InDesign universe that is dreamt of in your philosophy, my friend! Here’s just a glimpse of what I’ve been looking at recently:
- Here is a list of GREP wildcard codes I’ve never seen before, apparently based on Perl — including “any math symbol,” and more.
- Okay, this is cool: a letterpress font created with a 3D printer!
- Why is the ampersand glyph so compelling? I don’t know, but I love these kinds of articles.
- Did you know that October 8 will be “International Print Day”? (Follow on twitter.)
- The Baker Framework is a free open source method of creating tablet apps, but a number of third-party companies sell or develop tools that add tools to the framework. I just noticed that Twixl and in5 are both InDesign-based partners.
- Speaking of in5, did you know that it lets you create a Web App? Learn about web apps here, and download an example to your mobile device.
- While this isn’t directly InDesign-related, it caught my eye: Looks like Apple bought the publishing platform Prss, which helps people make magazines for the iOS newsstand.
- Making a booklet (a small book)? There are things you should know, such as how to choose a binding type and how to use the Print Booklet feature.
- Hey, are you a student or you know a student who is creative, entrepreneurial, and likes to share their knowledge? Sign up to become an Adobe Student Rep!
- Here’s a fun little free script that lets you split up a text frame into smaller frames, based on paragraphs, words, or other delimiters. (You have to sign up for their free newsletter to get it.)
- Did you know Adobe’s DPS has viewers for Android, Windows, web browsers, and more?
- OK, Staples is just trying to sell more ink and toner, but this is a cute infographic about workplace personalities anyway.
- Trying to get InDesign to talk with SQL databases, XML, and JSON? Here’s some open source tools called Porky you might find useful!
Enjoy!
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on October 1, 2014