March, 2015 | CreativePro Network

Three Ways to Improve Your Hyperlinks

One of my favorite new-ish features of InDesign CC (version 9.2) is the overhaul of how hyperlinks are created and managed. One aspect of this is that now, when you create the first hyperlink in a document, a new Character style named “Hyperlinks” is created. By default, this character style only has two attributes: a […]

Tip of the Week: Peek-a-Boo Panels

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This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 131

I have to admit that this month it seems like there are fewer InDesign stories out there than usual. (If you find more InDesign-related articles — or have written some! — let me know so I can pass them on.) That said, there are a few here, and I’ve also collected a number of other […]

InDesign Secrets Video: Print Fundamentals

This week’s free lynda.com video covers one of the most fundamental topics, which oddly enough also includes some of the most obscure and unknown features in InDesign: the Print dialog box. The video is from David Blatner’s course, InDesign Insider Training: Preflight and Printing. In it, David takes you step-by-step, checkbox-by-checkbox through the General options […]

Supercharge Your Graphics with Cell Styles

I am a new gardener and this year I’m in the process of building raised square foot garden beds. Based on last year’s gardening results (no planning+months of hard work=no harvest), this year I want to do my best to have a well-planned garden with a plentiful harvest. Consequently, I have been researching and planning for months. Lately […]

XMPie Releases uMerge

New York, NY, March 12, 2015– XMPie®, a leading provider of software for personalized communications in print and digital media, announces the release of uMerge, a subscription-based personalization add-on to Adobe InDesign CC. uMerge is easy to use for InDesign professionals and relevant for a broad scope of applications, from database publishing to small-scale personalization […]

The Mystery of the Unwelcome Text Wrap Contest Answer and Winners!

In our latest InDesignSecrets contest you all were challenged solve a problem for Bill, the fictional production artist who couldn’t figure out why placing images all of a sudden caused unwanted text wrap in his documents. And the prize for getting the right answer—and having your name chosen at random from the correct entries—was a license for […]

Tip of the Week: Placing Snippets

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Overcoming Limitations with Find/Change and Conditional Text

For those of you who are power users of conditional text, this post is for you. Have you ever wanted to delete a condition in your document only get to get the following message? You’ll only get this message when the condition is currently bring applied to text. If the condition isn’t being used, you can delete […]