November, 2017 | CreativePro Network

Create a Page-A-Day Calendar in InDesign

Pre-press specialist and scripting guru Kasyan Servetsky recently blogged about an issue that he had encountered on the Adobe User-to-User InDesign forums and provided an explanation of the solution. The original poster wanted to create a page-a-day type of calendar—with the month as a heading and a large digit for the date—and have the date […]

3D Graphics Made Easy with Adobe Dimension CC

This article appeared in Issue 103 of InDesign Magazine. The release of InDesign CC 2018 wasn’t the only great news coming out of the Adobe MAX conference. Among the highlights was a brand new addition to the set of Creative Cloud applications, Adobe Dimension CC. This new program allows Creative Cloud users to immediately start building amazing […]

Introducing Peristyle by Hoefler&Co.

Jonathan Hoefler of Hoefler&Co. is at it again! He and his enthusiastic and talented team of designers have created Peristyle, a family of condensed typefaces designed to restore the effortless chic of the high-contrast sans. A little background: H&Co is renowned for creating typefaces that are marked by both high performance and high style, H&Co’s […]

Adding Files to a Book

If you use InDesign’s Book feature to work with long documents, you probably know that you can add individual InDesign files to a book by choosing Add Document from the Book panel menu or clicking the plus sign at the bottom of the Book panel. But you might not know that you can also add files to a book by drag and dropping them into the Book panel […]

New Contest! The Puzzling Pasted Text

Solve this InDesign mystery for a chance at winning a great prize.

Matching Fonts with Adobe Capture CC and Typekit

Adobe released an exciting piece of new font-matching technology at the MAX 2017 conference in October. To use it, just install the latest version Adobe Capture CC, for iOS or Android. Capture allows you to extract colors, brushes, patterns, and so on from images. And now it also has a font matching feature called Type. You simply […]

Illustrator CC 2018 New Features

Adobe Illustrator CC 2018 brings several exciting enhancements, including Variable Fonts, Puppet Warp and the new Properties Panel. Here, we’ll look at the major new features in this year’s update, and talk through their strengths and weaknesses. Variable fonts Just like Photoshop CC 2018, Illustrator now supports Variable Fonts. These allow you to change aspects of […]

Setting Vertical Text in InDesign

Renee wrote: As our crossword magazines are moving from QuarkXPress to InDesign, I found out that you can’t write the crossword solutions the same way in InDesign as we did in XPress. We used to use a textbox with narrow columns, where each column holds only one character. The solution is then written vertically. But […]

InDesign Poll Results: Sending Files to a Print Service Provider

Stop the presses!! Or rather, start them and send off your print-ready files! This past month’s poll was all about the format you choose when sending off your files to a commercial print service provider. And the clear winner is PDF. Just which flavor of PDF is where things get divided. And fairly evenly, at […]