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New lynda.com Course: Creating Fixed Layout EPUBs with InDesign CC
Most InDesign users would love to have a simple, export-once-you’re-done way to turn their layouts into digital publications. Digital pubs that include not just the fonts, colors, and layout (like a PDF), but also any interactive elements (video, buttons, animation) they care to add, and have that miracle file and its buttons and gizmos work, dangit, on […]
Continue readingTranspose it!
InCopy contains a slew of hidden features that are often overlooked by users who use InCopy every day. I was reminded of this recently while working on a project where a user had copied numeric data from an excel spreadsheet that contained incorrect data. It turns out that the data supplied to them, had the […]
Continue readingAdobe Drops DPS Single Edition Support from Creative Cloud
 [Editor’s note: This article is in two parts. First, an article by Bob Levine; followed by additional notes by David Blatner.] Adobe is announcing today that it will be “retiring” the Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition (DPS SE) from the Adobe Creative Cloud on May 1 (2015) and removing it as a purchasable product from Adobe.com even sooner, […]
Continue readingA Bounty of Vintage Thanksgiving Fare
Vintage graphics to celebrate a day of giving thanks for food, family, and friends
Continue readingThis Week in InDesign Articles, Number 128
Hey, did you see our new 3-minute PePcon video yet? If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like going to a PePcon, this should give you a good idea. And, once you finish that, take a moment to peruse this list of terrific articles and videos I’ve compiled! InCopy users take note: Chad Chelius has posted […]
Continue readingAnother Norwegian Design Coup!
Those clever and artistic Norwegians are at it again. First they went and made their paper currency look like teeny works of art, and now they are on track to make everyone else’s passports look antiquated in comparison. As with the currency re-design, Norway’s National Police Directorate held a contest (is this a Norwegian thing?) […]
Continue readingInDesign Secrets Video: Changing the UI Language
InDesign is used all around the world, so of course the application supports many different languages. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy or obvious just how you would go about changing the language of InDesign’s user interface. In fact, there isn’t an officially supported way to do this. But there is a super obscure trick […]
Continue readingNew lynda.com Course: Creating Long Documents With InDesign CC
As I was preparing for my session on long documents for the InDesign Conference earlier this month, I realized that 2014 is my 20th year making books and other long docs. And it has been a blast making all those pages on everything from gardening to geometry to fruit to football. So it feels like perfect […]
Continue readingTypegenius Makes Matching Typefaces Easy
For someone who is fairly blasé about fonts, I sure spend a lot of timing thinking and writing about them. It’s the nature of the graphic design beast, I guess. The great thing for me is that there are always tools popping up to help me nurture my understanding and appreciation for typography. (NOTE: I […]
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