Creative Suite Posts

Keith tackles a thorny issue where certain styles of a large type family seemed to disappear from the InDesign font menu.

Q: When does a drop shadow not appear to be a drop shadow? A: When it isn’t applied to the frame.

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.

News from Adobe: Design matters!

For a one-time fee of $395 small publishers, designers, and agencies can now publish branded apps to the iTunes Store.

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.

Los Angeles, CA, October 3, 2011 — Silicon Publishing and Fotolia announced an exciting new extension that incorporates over 14 million stock photos directly into Adobe’s Creative Suite.
The extension lets users browse, manage, and incorporate stock photos from Fotolia.com directly within Adobe’s Creative Suite applications including Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. Developed by [...]

Keith does a “deep dive” into saving thumbnails for Bridge in InDesign.

Combine PDFs and animation sounds easy, but it is often harder than it needs to be. Here is another trick that might make it easier.

Why copy-and-paste sometimes stops working