Ruling headers… (or, Placing a Rule Behind a Header)
By: Cari Jansen
December 20 2011 • 2:26 AM
Consider this part 2 in the series ‘working with text on a tinted background’!
Center that vertically… (Framed)
By: Cari Jansen
December 19 2011 • 1:50 AM
Unthreaded text frames, filled with a colour and a single line of capitalized text that is both horizontally and vertically centered.
Parentheses around page numbers in the Index panel
By: Keith Gilbert
November 16 2011 • 9:14 PM
Ever wonder why some of your page numbers in the index panel are surrounded by parentheses? Read this to discover why.
New software to convert InDesign books to fixed layout ePUB
By: Keith Gilbert
November 9 2011 • 2:13 PM
Keith tries out a new program that creates fixed layout ePUB files directly from InDesign.
Where is my font?
By: Keith Gilbert
October 26 2011 • 1:36 PM
Keith tackles a thorny issue where certain styles of a large type family seemed to disappear from the InDesign font menu.
Where is My Drop Shadow?
By: James Fritz
October 11 2011 • 1:35 PM
Q: When does a drop shadow not appear to be a drop shadow? A: When it isn’t applied to the frame.
Dynamic Liquid Layout in InDesign (MAX Sneak Peek)
By: David Blatner
October 7 2011 • 9:37 AM
Want to see one of the most exciting things you’ve ever seen in InDesign? This MAX sneak gave me great hope for the future of publishing.
Report from Adobe MAX 2011
By: David Blatner
October 6 2011 • 9:59 PM
News from Adobe: Design matters!
Adobe Introduces Affordable Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition
By: Bob Levine
October 3 2011 • 10:19 AM
For a one-time fee of $395 small publishers, designers, and agencies can now publish branded apps to the iTunes Store.
Secret life of Character Styles and Running Headers
By: Cari Jansen
October 3 2011 • 4:35 AM
Back in InDesign CS3 Text Variables were introduced. Amongst a number of things we can use them to automatically generate running headers at the top of book or report pages, by placing a text variable placeholder on the master page that automatically inserts text formatted with a pre-allocated paragraph style.