June, 2014 | CreativePro Network

How to Use Dropbox as a Web Server in 3 Easy Steps

So you’ve got some web content, now what do you do with it? Typically, this is where you’d upload your content to a web server. Maybe you’re new to creating web content and the idea of signing up with a web host is daunting. Perhaps you’re dipping your toe in the water, and you don’t […]

Making a Custom Composition Highlighter to Find Invisible Characters

Trog, in a tweet, wrote: is there a way to add custom composition highlights ex. soft & hard return invis. characters? Interesting question! Highlights are usually used to find special or problematic formatting. We’ve talked about InDesign’s composition highlights feature several times (such as this overview, and this clever tip from Mr. Rankin). But this […]

Podcast 211

• PePcon 2014 highlights and our favorite sessions and new tips
• New features in InDesign CC 2014
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Ink Alias

InDesign Secrets Video: Using Preflight to Find Common Errors

In the latest episode of InDesign Secrets on lynda.com, Anne-Marie Concepción describes a terrible malady that has bedeviled some InDesign users for years. It’s called Live Preflight Blindness and it causes you to not notice InDesign’s Live Preflight feature working at the bottom of the document window to show you potential errors like missing links, broken URLs, […]

A Shortcut to View Pages Horizontally

This post was inspired by InDesign Secrets editor Mike Rankin’s comments about what happens when he selects Digital Publishing as the intent for a new document. From Mike: This has been bugging me for a long time: every time I create a new document with digital publishing intent, the pages panel switches to display pages […]

CMYK vs. RGB

Excerpted from Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Cloud by Claudia McCue. Copyright © 2014. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press. * * * Since the dawn of desktop publishing, it’s been unquestioned that Thou Shalt Convert to CMYK. Those who submitted RGB files were considered uninformed, even uncivilized. The rules are […]

Tip of the Week: Super Fast Table Editing

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