This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 82
Here in the great pacific northwest, “the holidays” have finally arrived in a snowy winter wonderland. The icicles, the snow, the chilly morning that just makes you want to yell “thank goodness for InDesign!” (Okay, I’m not entirely sure how InDesign got in there, but you know there has to be a segue.)
- The good news is that Adobe has relented on their somewhat crazy plan to get everyone to upgrade to CS5.5 before CS6 and the Creative Cloud even ships. Now Adobe has announced that they will extend upgrades for CS3 and CS4 users until the end of this year. I think the Creative Cloud is going to be a great deal if you use three or more of the Creative Suite apps (such as InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Photoshop) and like to keep up with the newest features. But I’m sure we’ll be talking more about that over time, when it truly ships. Here’s more on the upgrade policy.
- I love this short stop motion animation called The Joy of Books. This all happens inside a kindle, too, of course, but it’s not nearly as fun to watch.
- I had forgotten that Markzware can sometimes repair corrupted InDesign documents for you.
- Here’s a fun “cars” InDesign template you can use, from our friends at stockInDesign.
- Steve Werner expanded on blog posts he’s written here in this InDesign Magazine article about what you need to know about placing video in your INDD files. (Obviously, if you want more high-end InDesign articles, you should subscribe to the magazine!)
- Okay, this has nothing to do with InDesign, but you must watch it: What if Photoshop Were An Actual Beauty Product?
- Claudia McCue sent me a note saying the Acrobat 10.1.2 update appears to fix a major problem with rollover states in PDF files. Yay!
- Keith Gilbert posts another helpful tip on creating DPS folios — this time on building hyperlinks that help you navigate around your document.
- You love Satin… you just don’t know how to use it right yet. Mike Rankin explains it all for you.
- Hey, Mike has been busy over at lynda… here’s his new five-hour title on building long documents! Great job, Mike!
- And, wait! Stop the presses! Diane Burns’ new lynda.com title about InDesign Tables is up! If you want to make better tables, or make them more efficiently, you’ve got to check that out.
- A year or so ago, Anne-Marie and I thought about offering a service that lets InDesign users “downsave” their files from CS5 to CS3 or even CS2. We couldn’t figure out how to do this economically, though. I just saw that this company is giving it a go, for about $5 each. Remember that downsaving is rarely perfect, so take it with a grain of salt.
- By the way, I’m speaking at Macworld|iWorldExpo again. It’s going to be great! If you’re near San Francisco and you want an exhibit-only pass, you can use the code BME19060 at this registration page. Only good for first 100 people who use that code. (It will also take $15 off an iFan registration ticket if you’d rather do that.)
Enjoy!
sorry… i posted this in an old newsletter just now by mistake, and this is a repeat.
do you have any information on using the number style override when indexing a book of documents using cs5.
it seems to work well in a single doc and in a book of docs it seems to work if we add every entry twice, ie once in the original cited doc and once again in the doc with the index, but without that second entry it loses the format override.
seems not right to have to enter every reference twice just to make a number bold? not even sure that is a robust work around.
any suggestions or related info will be much appreciated. thanks.
@David: Wow, I hadn’t tried that in quite a while… looks like it might be a real bug. I don’t see any workaround right now. Frustrating!