Bunch of InDesign Articles
I keep extra tabs open in Firefox (I want to use Safari, but I’m just kind of hooked on Firefox). I mean a lot of extra tabs. Stuff I’ve been meaning to read or blog about or stuff to remind me to do something. It’s getting insane. I’ve recently downloaded the ReadItLater firefox add-on so that I can get rid of some of these myriad open tabs… but then I had a crazy idea: Why not just go ahead and blog about some of this stuff. For example, why not point to some of the InDesign articles that have been popping up in magazines and on the Web recently.
For example:
- Here’s a nice piece in Macworld on using the PowerZoom feature in InDesign CS4.
- Pariah’s fun article about making cast shadows on creativepro.com
- Publicious article on making trifolds
- Want ePub resources? Check out this long list of links!
- Check out this step-by-step example of how Rorohiko’s StoryTweaker works
- Claudia explains why you should not use the Registration color
There are many other articles about InDesign floating around on the Web. If you see one you think is particularly good, give us a link below!
(By the way, if you include more than one link in your comment, it’ll be automatically sent to be moderated. Don’t be alarmed. If they’re real links and not spam, we’ll OK it.)
May I be so vain to add my own blog for Dutch readers to this list?
http://fvdgeest-dtp.blogspot.com/
For the serious InDesign user in The Netherlands and Belgium
Thanks so much for sharing these!!!
Here’s an interesting one from our friends at CreativeTechs on converting an InDesign document to a MS Word file. This should be read alongside Anne-Marie’s creativepro.com article on making MS Word templates with InDesign.
David,
Thanks for sharing! About your propensity for “multitabbing” I thought I’d bring up a Firefox Add-On my college roommate made:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5756
It’s called Taboo, and is wonderfully useful.
I’ve been using ReadItLater for a while now, and besides the obvious “saving for later reading”, it’s also helpful when you read something at home that’ll come in handy at work (just set up both installs to use the same account and then sync) or vice versa. No more printing the page or emailing yourself the URL, just save it in RIL.
There is a complete A-Z of InDesign Cs4’s new Preflight feature at http://creativementor.com.au/adobe-indesign-cs4-preflight-eseminar/
The list of links to ePub resources is helpful, but I’ve been looking for months for a step-by-step breakdown of how to actually design a book in InDesign so that it will export properly to ePub. Does anybody know of such a thing?