InDesign Mag Issue 34: Color, Utko, Postcards, ACE, and more!
Here’s the thing: InDesign Magazine comes out once every two months. It’s a subscription based PDF magazine that is chock full o’ good information about Adobe InDesign. When it comes out, subscribers get notified right away by email that they can download it. Then, about a week later, it goes “live” on the site.
Here’s the problem: I’m not allowed to blog about it until it goes live on the site, but by that time, I often get distracted… dang… so anyway, here I am, weeks after Issue 34 launched, waving my arms about it and saying you gotta’ subscribe now if you want this issue and all the goodness that is coming up in the next year.
Issue 34 includes:
- A wonderful article by Lauren Krause about colors and how to pick them. It seems like such a simple topic, but she explains it all in a way that made me go, “Ah! I get it now!”
- An exploration by Cathy Palmer of how (and why!) to design postcards for marketing, business reply, and more. It’s incredibly helpful to have all that info in one place.
- I wrote a piece on how to automatically add icons to the beginning or the end of each paragraph (for example, if you’re making a directory and you want a special icon at the beginning of all the lines).
- Sandee Cohen explains how to clean up text that has returns at the end of every line (and other solutions).
- Pariah S. Burke delves deep into the world of managing projects with clients and colleagues across the miles.
- There’s a wonderful article by Diane Burns about designer Jacek Utko, one of Europe’s most successful newspaper designers.
- Do you want to take the Adobe InDesign ACE exam? Or just want to study to see how much you know? You can read an excerpt from Mike Rankin’s excellent guide to the ACE in this issue!
- Michael Murphy wrote a review of Blatner Tools from DTP Tools. (In case you wondered: I completely recused myself from that article, so I would not influence it.) He gave it 4.5 out of 5 butterflies! Woo hoo!
I do need to be really clear that InDesign Magazine is not published by InDesignSecrets. It’s a totally separate thing, published by creativepro.com, but we work closely with them (I’m the editorial director over there).
Hey, I should also point out that if you come to the conference or any of our seminars you get a free one-year subscription to the magazine, too! Nice benefit. (If you already subscribe, they said they’d extend the subscription.) If you can’t make it to one of those events, you can still get $20 off a one-year subscription by using the coupon code FRIEND, or $15 off a two-year subscription with coupon code FRIEND2. And, if you’re on the fence, check out the free trial issue!
Apparently my subscription ran out and no one contacted me about a renewal. I even sent them an e-mail and asked. No response.
Now I’m going to wait until CS5 comes out.
Strange way to run a magazine.
Hi Coal Cracker,
We just checked your subscription, and it has not run out — you have one more issue left. And believe me, when subscriptions expire, we definitely send several emails with renewal invitations. :-)
I think the problem here is a spam filter that, at some point in the journey from our server to your inbox, intercepted the messages with the issue download information.
If you write me directly at [email protected], I’ll make sure you’re all fixed up.
Thanks for subscribing!
Hum… I almost forgot about this. I haven’t gotten the latest issues either. And I’m pretty sure the e-mails haven’t been blocked by the spam filter…
In almost every case, the reason people don’t get their subscription emails is due to some kind of spam filter, or their email address changing. We all know that email is tricky sometimes. However, you should be able to go to indesignmag.com and sign in there and download the issues manually.
Great article.
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