Indesign Secrets

Le Roi est mort. Can software that was never the market leader be considered “the king”? Perhaps only in our hearts. GoLive had long been our personal favorite, when it came to HTML development, and we were deeply saddened when Adobe dropped it from the Creative Suite. We got a tad bit excited when Adobe […]

We’re happy to announce that our new “sister” site, InCopySecrets.com, is live and on the air!

InCopySecrets.com provides news, links, tips, and techniques for people working in an Adobe InDesign/InCopy workflow: editors, writer, designers, and production staff and management.

We’ve just learned that in the next “dot” release of InDesign (version 5.0.3.1.r42), Adobe is removing all support for printing. The File > Print command will be replaced with File > Export to AIR and the various print-based PDF Presets will be removed, in favor of three new presets, including one for PDF/X-6 (which, as […]

Have you seen Michael Murphy’s new place? It’s great!
We’re speaking, of course, about his new online home at TheInDesigner.com. After over a year of being “roomies” with us at InDesignSecrets.com, we agreed with Michael that the best way for him to achieve his professional goals was for him to once again host his blog and […]

InDesignSecrets.com has grown quite a bit over the past two years; in fact, we had over 220,000 visitors serving over a million files last month alone. So today we moved to a new server. (Though we’re still with our great and very helpful ISP, Phillips Data.)
However, these things always make us nervous, especially when databases […]

Type is fun. Virtually everyone who uses InDesign also uses type. So, even though this doesn’t relate directly to InDesign, it probably relates to you. One of our favorite vices is looking at type. While we can’t say we spend nearly as much time exploring fonts and typography as we’d like to, we just wanted […]

Hey everyone,

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Finally! After months of speculation from users worldwide — “Will it fix this annoyance? Add that feature? Not break my piggybank?” — Adobe publicly announced today feature and pricing details about the newest version of their flagship product, Creative Suite 3 (CS3), due to ship in the very near future (perhaps even within the next few weeks).

Here at InDesignSecrets, of course we’re mostly interested what’s new with InDesign CS3, which in our minds is the central application in the Creative Suite. It’s the Sun around which all the other Suite programs revolve. Or, as David likes to say (tongue only partially in cheek), “Photoshop and Illustrator? They’re wonderful InDesign plug-ins.”

We’re pleased to welcome Michael Murphy and his top-notch videocast, TheInDesigner, to InDesignSecrets!

If you click the Videocast link at the top of the left sidebar (right under the Podcast link), you’ll arrive at the new home we made for Michael, his own dedicated section of our web site. We’ve moved the existing posts, comments, and links from his old blog to here, so if you hadn’t had a chance to get to know this smart-as-a-whip guy or seen his tightly produced videocasts, you must check it out!

Covering topics such as Nested Styles (a three-parter), the Glyphs palette, and Tables, each video averages about ten minutes in length and is both illuminating and enjoyable. Michael optimizes the InDesigner videocasts […]