This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 119

David Blatner

The full moon has me howling… about InDesign! And even an eclipse can’t stop you from reading these articles and watching these videos:

• The InDesign CC Recertification exam is now live
• Watch Terry White’s video 5 Hidden Gems in Adobe InDesign CC
• Can you convert a PDF to an editable InDesign file? Sure! But you will almost always need to do clean-up afterward. The longer the PDF, the more clean-up! If you have a whole book, that clean-up may or may not be worth it. Check out these two reviews from The Book Designer of Recosoft’s PDF2ID and also Markzware’s PDF2DTP.
• DPS users: here’s a cool video by Bart Van de Wiele on building an animation of increasing numbers. I love his unexpected use of the “current page number” variable.
• Want to learn more about DPS? If you’re in Seattle, San Francisco, DC, or New York, consider signing up for a one-day free training by Adobe
• Speaking of DPS… this was fascinating to me: Adobe DPS is dropping support for Kindle Fire! I guess there just wasn’t enough interest?
• I love this short article: A Plea to Book Designers: InDesign Is Not a Linotype Machine
• Okay, this is an Acrobat lesson, not InDesign, but it’s a good one: How to convert PDF files to grayscale
• Are you interested in Digital and Variable Data Printing? Watch Claudia’s new movie about it at lynda.com!
• You know about EPUB and DPS… but do you know about OpenEFT? You probably should.
• Building Better Workflows: A Seybold Report Conference is coming up in Philadelphia, May 22
• Okay, this is too cute: Dot’s Dictionary teaches common graphic design terms, such as baseline, serif, and orphan.
• This is important: How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print

Enjoy!