Top 5 InDesign Template Tips
Anne-Marie Concepción shares her favorite tips for making awesome InDesign templates
I’ve been producing layout files for my company and my clients for a couple decades now, and I can attest that starting with a workable template (as opposed to a blank page, or a copy of the previous issue or version) makes production go incredibly fast.
However, I’ve found that, oh, about 98% of my clients don’t have templates to give me, and even if I create one for them, it’s a struggle to get them to use it. Believe me, I understand. People feel comfortable doing what they’ve always done.
If you’re not a template user, I think you’ll find these five tips (there’s probably about 80 jammed in there) will help convince you it’s worth a try; and if you do use templates, I’m positive you’ll learn something new that will make them even easier and more useful for production.
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THanks for sharing these tips. I will definitely be incorporating them into my workflow :)
You’re welcome! I updated the article a bit, where I talk about the script for highlighting text style overrides. Users of ID CC 2015.3 and later have that feature built in. Yay!
Anne-Marie,
Thanks for the tip re: Collaborative Workflows InDesign, InCopy & Word which you included on Lynda. com. Just what I needed.