SECRETS Posts

Japanese Dots: A Journey Up the River

April 19 2012 • 2:35 PM

Sometimes, when you search for something, you find it everywhere!

How to See the Hexadecimal Value for a Given Color or Swatch

April 17 2012 • 2:02 PM

There is one location in InDesign CS5.5 or later that shows you the hexadecimal values for a color… can you guess what it is?

Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud Launch Event Set for April 23

April 16 2012 • 5:03 PM

We’ve known for quite some time that CS6 would be coming in the second quarter of 2012 but now we know the date.
Adobe will be holding a special launch event on Monday, April 23 at 10:00 AM PDT. If this is anything like past events there will be demos of the various products and a [...]

Finding and Fixing Local Text Formatting (No Script Required)

April 16 2012 • 7:05 AM

Here are three ways you quickly locate and fix local text formatting in even the most complex InDesign layouts, using features already built-in to the program.

QuarkXPress to InDesign Conversion Guide

April 12 2012 • 1:38 PM

There are more people that need this Guide than you think.

A Much Improved Adobe Reader for Tablets Appears

April 11 2012 • 12:58 PM

Adobe Reader 10.2 for tablets is now much improved and worth checking out.

Fixing TOC Levels That Refuse to Behave

April 9 2012 • 2:16 PM

An innocent little setting can really goof up your automatically-generated Tables of Contents. Here is one graphic designer’s story!

The Gap Tool and Groups

April 7 2012 • 6:10 AM

InDesign’s Gap tool has an interesting relationship when used with objects that have been grouped. Guest author Ashley Mitchell fills in the gaps!

Free Webinar: Developing DPS Content for the New iPad

April 5 2012 • 8:31 AM

Webinar is tomorrow, Friday, April 6! Learn from the master, Adobe’s Colin Fleming, on best workflows for the new iPads.

InDesign CS6 Sneak Peek: New Content Collector Tools

April 3 2012 • 11:56 AM

InDesign CS6 will have new tools for re-purposing content.