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New Adobe White Paper on Creating Accessible PDF Files from InDesign

July 3 2009 • 4:41 PM

If you need to export accessible (Section 508) PDF files from InDesign, you need this new white paper from Adobe!

Merging Separations into Composite CMYK plus Spot

July 3 2009 • 12:48 AM

Need to recombine pages that have been separated into individual color channels? Photoshop can help with this arcane but helpful trick!

CS4 Live Preflight Best at Checking for Font Embedding Problems

July 2 2009 • 4:25 PM

While InDesign CS3 and other utilities claim to identify protected fonts, Live Preflight in InDesign CS4 does the best in detecting problems.

Making the Page Number and Pages Panel Numbers Match

July 2 2009 • 2:04 PM

What if you want your pages numbered 4A, 4B, and so on… both on the page and in the Pages panel?

Flags For Our Fathers

July 2 2009 • 11:09 AM

Using a combination of line styles and creativity can be a lot of fun when you are making typographic flags.

Let The Good Times Flow

July 1 2009 • 9:31 PM

Gridiron Flow is a slick, powerful visual workflow management tool that shows the connections between your files. Check it out. But be warned: you may never be the same afterward.

Honey, I Blew Up The Color Panel

June 30 2009 • 6:52 AM

Come on a fantastic voyage to see pixels as big as houses. Enter dark places, where InDesign gurus fear to tread. Cooler than Kuler? Kinda.

Ease Your Print Production Folding Pain

June 28 2009 • 6:40 PM

Creating folds properly is one of the knottiest problems in InDesign print production. The FOLDRite Template Master plug-in for InDesign CS3 and CS4 can make them easily.

Story Cloner Script Synchronizes Text in a Snap

June 26 2009 • 7:06 AM

Syncing text frames is now just a double-click away

Adding Bleed to a Document

June 26 2009 • 1:34 AM

You want objects to extend all the way to the page edge… you need bleed!