We’re happy to announce that InDesign Magazine Issue 73 (May, 2015) is now available! Here’s what the issue includes: Pamela Pfiffner explores the world of designing and producing restaurant menus Chad Chelius reveals his recipe for efficiently producing distinctive cookbooks (includes a downloadable template!) Claudia McCue shows how to get started working with edible printing Diane Burns […]
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Recently I’ve been trying to up my typography game—mostly to impress my type-loving friends. Being late to this game I often feel overwhelmed, so lately I’ve been trying to learn in quick visual snippets. Knowing my love of infographics, one kind-hearted typophile recently sent me a link to Pop Chart Lab’s “Alphabet of Typography” poster, […]
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I’ve been sitting here, editing a document that someone sent me, and wondering why every time I do a Find/Change it takes much longer than usual. Find/Change usually goes pretty fast, and I can make a change that replaces hundreds or even thousands of pieces of text in a few seconds. But in this document […]
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It’s springtime and InDesign is popping up all over! But no matter what time of year it is when you read this, you should check out these terrific blogs posts, articles, videos, and more about InDesign. If you’re on the Mac and using Creative Cloud (CC), make sure you’re working with OS X 10.9 or […]
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I earn my bread and butter, and the occasional Belgian ale, by turning designer-created prototypes into templates, and templates into detailed style guides that composition teams use to create lengthy and complicated textbooks for print. And then those print books are turned into digital publications that range from digital books to complex ePubs or apps. […]
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Guides can be copied and pasted in InDesign, just like regular objects!
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Changes in the book publishing industry is an ongoing and ever-evolving beast, from the way information is presented, to the delivery methods involved. One category of books caught up in the sea change encompasses the architecture and design book publishing world. In May, Designers & Books and The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and […]
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Type enthusiasts take note: Typographics, a conference for people who use type, is scheduled for this June 8 to 18 in New York City. Typographics is a conference devoted to contemporary typography, with talks, workshops, and tours focusing on where typography is today and where its future may lie. It will be held at Cooper […]
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The other day I was working on some chapters for a book I was typesetting, when I discovered a helpful trick in the Hyperlinks Panel. The chapter was 27 pages of all text that had been pre-styled (properly, with Paragraph and Character styles), except that I noticed a lot of missing spaces between sentences—one sentence would be followed […]
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