Archive for 2008

Sometimes you learn something that is new to you, but obvious to others. I compiled a list of things I have learned in the last year that I probably should have known.

Top Ten uses for your arrow keys, plus a few bonus tips so you won’t ever have to ask, “What’s the point?”

InDesign isn’t as good an illustration tool as Adobe Illustrator, of course, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun with its drawing tools!

I can’t tell you what a long and sad story this is. But bear with me.
Billions of years ago, (around the time of Acrobat 5) I wrote a book with two friends all about the interactive features in Acrobat PDF files.
One of the coolest things we demonstrated was how you could add SWF movies from [...]

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Welcome to new contibutor, James Fritz
InDesignSecrets on Twitter!
The state of CS4: Who is upgrading?
InDesign CS4 ACE Exam — by InDesignSecrets
Right-to-left (RTL) text without InDesign ME
The problem with the PICT image format
Free Download: Guide to Special Characters in InDesign
Obscure InDesign Feature of the [...]

CS4 introduced the redesigned preflight, but it is not without its own problems.

When you need to create in invoice or a small spreadsheet inside InDesign, you’re probably going to have to look outside of InDesign at a plug-in.

To hear the audio episode from which this transcript was made, or to comment on this episode, go to the InDesignSecrets Podcast 86 page.
[music]
Anne-Marie Concepcion: Welcome to InDesign Secrets Episode 86. I’m Anne-Marie Blatner and I’m here…???[laughter]
Anne-Marie: That’s bizarre.
David Blatner: [laughing] Anne-Marie Blatner!
Anne-Marie: Ah, silly me, I should have said David Concepcion. Oh, [...]

To hear the audio episode from which this transcript was made, or to comment on this episode, go to the InDesignSecrets Podcast 87 page.
David Blatner: Welcome to InDesign Secrets, Episode 87. I am David Blatner. I am here along with my cohost, Anne-Marie Concepcion.
Anne-Marie Concepcion: Hey David, how are you?
David: I am very excited [...]

To hear the audio episode from which this transcript was made, or to comment on this episode, go to the InDesignSecrets Podcast 88 page.
[music]
Anne-Marie Conception: Welcome to InDesign Secrets, Episode 88. I’m Anne-Marie Conception, and I’m here with my cohost David Blatner, and my dog Zoey.
David Blatner: [laughs] Hi there. Hey Zoey.
Anne-Marie: Did [...]