This Month in InDesign Articles, October 2018
It’s interesting to me that the fall (or spring, in the southern hemisphere) is the beginning of the new year for students, teachers, and the Jewish people. A sense of learning and new options is in the air! And a new version of InDesign (and other Create Cloud apps) is about to drop in our laps… time to take a deep breath and dive in!
- Important information for anyone using older versions of Windows or Mac OS software about Adobe dropping support for older software
- A really cool lineup of alphabet characters that got cut from modern English. (Though some still show up in other languages!)
- If you haven’t seen this sneak peek of Content Aware Fit in InDesign CC 2019, you should!
- Ilene Strizver always has good insights into fonts and type… here’s Five Typesetting Mysteries Solved.
- John McWade has a new title on LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com) on Designing a Magazine Cover — part of a longer series he’s doing on designing a full magazine.
- I love reading Seth Godin’s thoughts on print and printers!
- Want to learn how to make endnotes in InDesign CC? Here’s a great little tutorial from Adobe!
- Need imposition software? Meadows Software is offering their Productivity Suite (which includes imposition and other tools) for free.
- ID-extras makes some of the most helpful commercial InDesign scripts. I love how Ariel posts updates on what kind of improvements they’re making.
- There’s a new version of Acrobat DC, and they’re really focusing on the process of comment-and-review! This goes hand-in-hand with another sneak peek they gave about InDesign CC 2019: the ability to import PDF comments, and even make the changes automatically!
- Can you draw? Yes you can! And October has been renamed… Inktober!
- Did you see that Adobe is canceling the ACI (Adobe Certified Instructor) and Certified Training Center programs?
- You know how much work we put into picking a great font and making it really readable? Turns out that illegible type may be better for actual memory recall!
Enjoy!
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Regarding the updating of comment function in Acrobat – it would seem they didn’t really survey what users would want. Made the “checking” of a comment much less intuitive and more steps. For people who use Acrobat & Indesign in a production environment, this amount to a lot of wasted time. Adding to the fact that “filtering” doesn’t seem to live update further frustrates the process. Funny that they are touting this as an improvement…
@David,
That’s a great suggestion!
I’d suggest that you make this suggestion on the InDesign UserVoice website AFTER the new version release. That way it will be seen and tracked by the product managers and engineers and everyone can vote on it.
https://indesign.uservoice.com
“Did you see that Adobe is canceling the ACI (Adobe Certified Instructor) and Certified Training Center programs?”
Wow… I mean…Wow!
Why?
Is Adobe going to cancel the InDesign CC 2015 ACE exam? Or, is it going to be updated to include InDesign CC 2018? Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
…and…this just in. I just received an email from Adobe that said “Yesterday, Adobe sent a notification to all Adobe Certified Instructors and Adobe Authorized Training Centers informing them of the termination of the Adobe Training Provider Program. First, we apologize for any disruption and confusion this has caused. Adobe is not terminating the Adobe Training Provider Program. The October 8, 2018 communication about program changes should be disregarded, and the program will continue without interruption.”
I have no idea what is going on, or what is behind this, but apparently it is business as usual. Strange.
Yes, got that one as well. Very, very strange! Even stranger is that the website that states the contrary is still live…
An intern getting some revenge? :-)
https://trainingpartners.adobe.com/home/FAQ.html
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