Creative Suite Posts

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.

The web conferencing feature I wrote about earlier is out of beta and has free and paid options.

Listen in your browser:
InDesignSecrets-104.mp3 (12.2 MB, 23:22 minutes)

News: A slew of new InDesign resources

Diane’s eSeminar on Tables in ID (recording available) and Steve’s upcoming eSeminar on Best Print/Prepress Practices for InDesign
Anne-Marie’s three new InDesign “10 Things” video titles at lynda.com
InDesign Seminar tour in full swing; David in [...]

What’s black and white or red all over? Your document in a blender (mode).

A few empty layers can go a long way when placing layered Photoshop and Illustrator files.

Unlike Photoshop and Illustrator, InDesign doesn’t have pattern swatches that you can use to fill an area with a repeating pattern. But it’s easy enough to make your own pattern swatches from scratch, and apply them via step and repeat.

Start with a rectangle. It doesn’t have to be a perfect square, but make its dimensions [...]

More cool goodies to extend the geek lifestyle.

Everybody loves “free”! InDesign CS4 offers a free web conferencing feature called “Share My Screen.”

Today, I got an email from Quark extolling the virtues of Quark 8. It was connected to the demo I downloaded a couple of months ago and was to tell me that the evaluation period had ended and of course invited me to purchase the software. The email listed all of the great features of [...]

The 2009 Creative Suite Developer Summit Comes To Your Computer Screen!