This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 97
Oh, we have all kinds of great stuff for you today! First I want to point out two great offers for InDesignSecrets readers:
- DTP Tools is offering 20% off the Blatner Tools suite of plug-ins until the end of November. Just use the coupon 12IDSECRETS20 (but you can download a fully-functioning demo version to try it out first).
- Recosoft is offering a 20% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 (Standard or Professional) until the end of October! Use the promo code ID_Secrets to get this great deal!
Okay, now on to some articles and videos you really ought to know about:
- If you want to learn how to make PDF forms in InDesign, here’s a clever InDesign document created by someone at Adobe that will help.
- Here’s an awesome, huge, and super geeky grep code to find anything that looks like a URL.
- Got a few minutes? Here’s some videos to watch:
- Mike Rankin showing how to make a peeling sticker effect (and read about it here):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPben33m3c0
- Mr. Rankin showing how to make a rough cut-out and taped effect (and read about it here):
- Here’s designer Graham Peace talking about why he likes Adobe’s DPS Single Edition (and here’s a PDF with his case study)
- Here’s a great little article from the Atlantic on the creation of a custom Arabic font for the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, designed by Dr. Mamoun Sakkal (who happens to live near me? very nice guy!)
- Yes, typography counts! “Study that Links Typeface Style with Reduced Driver Distraction Risk.”
- Adobe has released some new free Edge fonts, but they’re also working with Google to release their web fonts through typekit. More on that here.
- Blurb.com makes amazing printed custom photo books? and now blurb can create rich media eBooks for tablets, too! Even better, they have InDesign plug-ins that help you get the job done.
- Interested in InDesign Server for automation solutions? Max Dunn at Silicon Publishing has started writing a number of excellent and insightful blog posts recently on the topic. They do amazing web to print automation solutions for Hallmark Cards and many other clients.
Enjoy!
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David, excellent post as usual. I tried to purchase PDF2ID, unfortunately the coupon code did not work.
@Lenny: Please try again… just heard back from Recosoft. There was a delay in getting it up and running, but it should work now.
Thanks David, I made the purchase but unfortunately the download from digitalriver is timing out…help.
Several weeks ago, I had trouble downloading PDF2ID from Digital River: it looked like the download went okay but then the downloaded file disappeared. Eventually I realized Norton Internet Security had quarantined the file, and I had to open up NIS to un-quarantine it. I wrote Recosoft to let them know, and they answered promptly, assuring me the file was safe, and I thought they said the quarantine issue was fixed.
David
@David, Recosoft sent a direct download link.