Indesign Secrets

It’s late Wednesday night as I type, and I’m just buzzing with excitement about The InDesign Conference in Toronto this week. We had a great two-day event, with over 200 attendees coming from around Canada and the United States. (And elsewhere! I had a lovely chat with a woman who few here from Qatar.) Speakers […]

Please forgive the self-indulgent announcement, but a number of readers and listeners have asked me when my InDesign CS3 Beyond the Basics video title would be available from Lynda.com. The answer is: Today. I just got the word that it’s live at this Web address.

If you don’t yet have a subscription to Lynda.com and you’re not in the mood to buy the DVD, you’re welcome to watch all 10 hours of the video instruction by signing up for a free one-week subscription at lynda.com/IDsecrets.

The Beyond the Basics title picks up…

Michael Ninness, Adobe’s Senior Product Manager of InDesign, opened The InDesign Conference in Miami today with a demo of some technology that Adobe is working on. He made it very clear that this was not necessarily going to be in any future version of InDesign, but that they’re considering it and wanted to get the […]

The InDesign Conference has a history of being a staging ground for new technologies that Adobe is working on. Apparently, Adobe will once again use the keynote address at The InDesign Conference in Miami next week as a forum for showing some new technologies involving both InDesign and Flash.

InDesign’s relationship with Flash has been a bit rocky in recent times, because while you can technically import SWF files into InDesign…

It seems like each week there are more tips about InDesign on YouTube. Some are pretty dull, and some are excellent. Here are two great tips that went up recently, both little excerpts from The Creative Suite Conference last fall in Chicago, one by Mordy Golding and one by Ted LoCascio. The first 10 seconds of the videos appear to be all messed up, but hold on for some good stuff.

Of course, the youtube display quality isn’t exactly stellar, but you…

While some of us believe that InDesign is the only friend we’ll ever need, and we talk incessantly to our computer screens, waiting for the day that it starts talking back, other people apparently believe that the only way to have meaningful relationships is with humans. Strange, no? Well, if you’re looking for other humans […]

P.T. wrote: I realize that this question might be a little off-topic, but, while at The InDesign Conference this week, I saw Claudia (McCue) use an awesome keyboard shortcut. Just by reaching over and clicking a couple keys, she put a searchlight around her mouse pointer. And it was awesome.

You’re not alone in your wonderment! One of the most common questions we hear at The InDesign Conference, The Creative Suite Conference, and other seminars is “How did you do that cool thing on screen?!” I think it’s because so many trainers and consultants who need to demo software come to the shows. Here are some of the tools we most often use…

Sorry for the delay in posts this week… Anne-Marie, Sandee, Steve, Pariah, and I have all been attending this week’s The InDesign Conference: Master Class in Seattle. Aside from some astonishing and record-breaking rain from the Pineapple Express, the conference was a great success. Over 300 people attended sessions as varied as “Fundamentals of XML,” […]

If you want to know more about Acrobat 8, Dreamweaver, and how they fit into the CS2.3 upgrade — and you live near Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York — check out Adobe’s free half-day seminars over the next couple of months. In our experience, Adobe tends to find a good balance […]

We’re less than two months away from The InDesign Conference: Master Class, in Seattle, Washington (November 6-8)! Note that while this conference is being held on the Adobe Campus, it’s not an Adobe event; that is, it promises to be full of content not marketing hype. Now BarryCon, the conference organizer, is offering InDesignSecrets readers/listeners […]