Posts by James Fritz

James graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2003. After beginning his career designing catalogs and collateral, he started working as a freelance designer for C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions. Soon he was promoted to a full time instructor/designer and subsequently become a Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+), Adobe Certified Design Specialist, Adobe Certified Expert & Instructor (Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, InCopy) and Quark Recognized Instructor. Recently he joined the adjunct faculty at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. In addition to teaching, he is a contributor at indesignsecrets.com and is an author for a soon-to-be released InDesign video series at Lynda.com. James has spoken at variety of conferences and groups including: the InDesign Secrets Print & Electronic Publishing Conference, AIGA, and multiple InDesign User Groups.

Should You use Legacy or Flash Media in CS5?

August 25 2010 • 2:22 PM

InDesign CS5 has more interactive features that ever, but you should be careful with the media that you use.

InDesign 7.0.2 Update Now Available

August 9 2010 • 7:09 AM

Get your updaters ready. Adobe just released the latest update to InDesign CS5 and fixes some major problems with document fonts on the Mac.

Why Would Objects Leave the Pasteboard?

July 20 2010 • 8:24 AM

Rotating objects seems pretty easy… until you get a warning.

Color By Frame

June 29 2010 • 8:52 AM

Officially text frame attributes can control the fill and stroke of the frame, but they can’t control the color the text inside them… or can they?

A Colorful Experience with CS5

June 18 2010 • 9:43 AM

CS5 is full of so many new features, you might have missed what is new with color.

Bringing Animation from InDesign CS5 into a PDF… with the help of a little script

May 26 2010 • 2:13 PM

Animation is really fun with CS5, but if you try to directly export your InDesign layout to PDF you will not like the results unless you know about this workaround.

Spring Loaded Tools in CS5

May 10 2010 • 10:27 AM

Save some time switching back and forth between tools.

Can’t We All Just Get Along (Apple vs Adobe)

April 9 2010 • 12:19 PM

It looks like a painful war is starting to brew between Apple and Adobe.

Creating Character Level Opacity in InDesign

March 29 2010 • 1:51 PM

Have you ever tried to apply an effect to selected text and realized that you couldn’t? It is time to find a way around this limitation.

Slugging it out with InDesign

March 14 2010 • 6:12 PM

Manually writing down document information is a pain, but combining text variables and a slug can really save you a lot of time.