This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 102

David Blatner

I love reading about InDesign? or watching InDesign videos? or thinking InDesign thoughts? here’s lots of stuff to keep you busy, no matter what InDesign-related activity you enjoy!

• Mike Rankin shows a truly awesome and very simple method for skewing (fake perspective) text in InDesign
• You can find some fun wallpaper images for the Adobe Creative Suite (including InDesign, of course) here. The wallpaper shows many tool shortcuts.
• Need to create an index for your document? IndexMatic might be the way to go; the FAQ and sample pages have been updated.
• This is awesome: 140+ InDesign and Creative Tasks You Didn’t Know You Could Automate? a list of scripts, plug-ins, and add-ons you just have to know about.
• CreativeBloq points out three things you might not have known you could do in InDesign.
• Check out this short movie called “Canons of Page Construction” to see how Jan Tschichold, J. A. Van de Graaf, and Raúl Mario Rosarivo created grids for book design.
• Are you somewhere near Delhi? If so check out their InDesign User Group!
• free Expo Only Pass or a $50.00 iFan pass, use this link
• Near Boston? Want to learn how to build your own typefaces? CraftingType looks cool!
• Just after writing up this new article that uses the span columns and paragraph rules features, I found this Tech4Pub piece on how span columns works. And here’s one by Nigel French at CreativePro (reprinted from InDesign Magazine) on paragraph rules!
• I’ve been saying this for years: “Why Printed Books Will Never Die” (though they leave out my favorite thing about printed books: they sit there on the floor or table calling to you until you pick them up)
• Rolling Stone magazine is now a DPS app
• Remember print? In case you don’t, it involved a process called printing. This wonderful movie from 1947 tells us how it worked.

Enjoy!