Creative Suite Posts

Changing sizes…

May 23 2012 • 7:05 AM

This is a story about scaling and sizing objects… InDesign CS5 introduced the ability to resize and scale multiple selected objects using the selection tool and the shift or Cmd+shift (Mac) or ctrl+Shift (PC) keys.

Why “No Break” is better than a line break

May 2 2012 • 8:57 AM

Here’s a clear example of why using “No Break” to keep an email address from wrapping is far superior to using a line break.

Aligning tables away or towards the spine

March 30 2012 • 2:09 PM

What to do when a document needs a table to be aligned away from the spine, but the table breaks across pages.

Happy 25th Anniversary Adobe Illustrator!

March 19 2012 • 8:54 AM

Illustrator is 25 years old. Let’s celebrate with some music!

How to become an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE)

March 15 2012 • 8:00 PM

Keith, who has taken many more Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exams than he cares to remember, shares some tips on the ACE process.

one, two, three… to return or not to return…

February 25 2012 • 3:02 PM

Why would you not want to use blank lines in your layout?

Ruling headers… (or, Placing a Rule Behind a Header)

December 20 2011 • 2:26 AM

Consider this part 2 in the series ‘working with text on a tinted background’!

Center that vertically… (Framed)

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

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

November 9 2011 • 2:13 PM

Keith tries out a new program that creates fixed layout ePUB files directly from InDesign.