Creative Suite Posts

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.

Acrobat.com Out of Beta; Free and Paid Web Conferencing

June 23 2009 • 10:21 AM

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

InDesignSecrets Podcast 104

June 20 2009 • 10:01 AM

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The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon.

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 [...]

InDesign Eye Candy, part 5: Blending a la Mode

June 16 2009 • 8:42 PM

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

Hey, Buddy. Can You Spare a Layer?

June 16 2009 • 7:10 AM

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

InDesign Eye Candy, part 4: Pattern Swatches

June 11 2009 • 10:02 AM

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 [...]

Coasting Into a Suite Life

June 10 2009 • 11:56 AM

More cool goodies to extend the geek lifestyle.

Free Web Conferencing Built into InDesign CS4

May 24 2009 • 3:01 PM

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

Please, Adobe…Can We Have Crossplatform Licensing?

May 20 2009 • 11:25 AM

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 [...]

Adobe Developers Conference Recordings

May 15 2009 • 9:19 AM

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