This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 117
Now that InDesign Magazine has gone monthly, and PePcon is coming, time is getting tighter to collect these great InDesign articles! But here are a few that I know you should know about. (If you have suggestions for InDesign articles or videos you think people should see, email me at david [at] indesignsecrets.com!)
- You’ve heard of Lining vs. Old Style numerals, and Proportional vs. Tabular… Ilene Strizver lays them all out in this article and explains why you want them and how to get ‘em.
- I enjoyed this little look back at last year called “Print and 2 other things that did not die in 2013“
- Check out this video about how to separate facing pages
- We have been hearing for years that digital is “greener” than paper. Is it true? Maybe not, says this piece in The Guardian
- Do you make diagrams, such a flow charts? Check out these free diagram icons from presentation specialists Duarte
- Hey, friend and IDS contributor Bob Levine has had his first title published at lynda.com: Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Essential Training. Check it out!
- I loved the old U&lc magazine (I had an uncle, Mac Baumwell, who was an editor way back when, and he helped turn me on to typography). That’s why I love seeing these U&lc retrospectives!
- Pretty design, and important topic (copyright) makes for a cool free ebook!
Enjoy!
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Thanks for the plug, David! Recording a lynda.com title was quite an experience.
David,
Your tip on separating facing pages in order to add full bleed for spiral bound projects is very good, but I use the Page Tool (CS5 and later) to separate the pages so that way they are still “facing pages”, next to each other with a 1/2 inch gap to allow for an 1/8 inch bleed. If I’m setting-up a New Document that’s going to be spiral bound, I then use the Page Tool and separate a Master Page Spread. Note: Create initial document as Facing Pages, then deselect Facing Pages in Document Setup… in order to separate the Master Page Spread.
David:
Thank you so much for the above tip! It never occurred to me that I could do that with images!
I was referring to your InDesign Secrets tip on Lynda. com.
David, thanks for the link to the retrospective on U&lc. I kept all of my issues for a very long time. Following the links in the article led me to an almost complete archive of every issue, available in PDF form.
https://blog.fonts.com/category/ulc/
Looks like they scanned them so I didn’t have to!