Creative Suite Posts

Just when you thought Halloween was over, here comes something very scary.

Ever place an .INDD file in another one? In my experience it’s a nifty feature, at least if there aren’t a ton of links in the placed document bogging you down. But beware of using placed .INDD in CS4. A bug exists where not [...]

Extensis apparently will not be offering a free upgrade to Suitcase Fusion users who have upgraded to CS4. Unfortunately, if you’d like to continue using auto font activation with InDesign CS4, then you must pay for the Suitcase Fusion 2 upgrade ($49.98).

I’ve been using the previous version of Suitcase Fusion, and it appears as though [...]

I just got back from the New York City InDesign User Group meeting where I had the pleasure of joining Sandee Cohen and Dan Rodney in presenting some of the new features of InDesign CS4.

There’s usually some kind of little secret or trick revealed at these meeting but Dan came up with the coolest one [...]

So I just got a note from the production manager for my ID CS4 VQS book.

They had some problems with an image on a page that they said they couldn’t convert to greyscale.

There are two strange things about this.

First, the image was already greyscale, so they shouldn’t have had to convert it.

Second, the image was [...]

One of the early controversies about InDesign CS4 is the Application Frame, but I think it’s much ado about nothing.

Metadata is a term that we’re hearing more and more these days. So what is it and why is it important. In the most simplistic terms possible, metadata is just data about data. As for why it’s important, keep reading.

Digital photos get much of their metadata automatically from the camera that’s used to take them [...]

Adobe announced this morning that CS4 is now available. The suites and individual applications can be ordered directly from Adobe or through any authorized reseller

Just as a reminder, if you’re thinking about the upgrade please keep in mind that if you have a suite license already you cannot upgrade individual components.

GridIron Software’s Flow is — or will soon be — an amazing tool that you absolutely need to know about.

So I was listening to the latest ID Secrets Podcast and the topic of the Flattener Preview came up.

And David and Anne-Marie mentioned how that could be a “Blatner Preview.”

And they wondered what a Blatner Preview would do, or look like.

Fortunately I already have the Blatner Preview plug-in.

Considering that CS4 hasn’t even been released yet, the information about it is coming pretty quickly. In addition to the earlier news that the help system has gone live, Adobe’s Thomas Phinney has posted the CS4 bundled font list on his blog.

The list is a pretty similar to earlier versions but the registration benefit for [...]