This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 52
I love the number 52. Fifty two weeks in a year. Fifty-two cards in a deck of cards. Four times thirteen. One after 51. So here we go, with list-o-great-InDesign-articles #52!
- Mike McHugh shows how to make one button magically expand into more than one in an animated, multi-state, super extravaganza. Quite excellent.
- If you’re still using CS3, what are you missing out on? This great chart at Adobe shows many of the new features. It’s certainly not comprehensive, but it does a reasonably good job.
- If you like InDesign but haven’t “liked” the InDesign product page at facebook, then what are you waiting for? They’ve hit 100,000 fans… and counting!
- Don’t like the colors that InDesign uses for guides? Customize them!
- Remember when I talked about AlbumsInDesign? (Claudia McCue did a review of the software in a recent InDesign Magazine, too.) Well, for some reason, they’ve changed their name to AlbumFlow (and added some features).
Some Scripts
- Need to Convert a Bunch of InDesign Files to PDFs? Here’s a write-up on one script that lets you do just that.
- Peter Kahrel strikes again, with this great little script that converts English-style numbers to non-English style (commas vs. decimal points, etc.)
- Speaking of scripts, Harbs at in-tools.com has organized all his scripts into one place, and redesigned his website to make it really cool looking, too!
Interactive
- Yahoo is getting into the tablet publishing business, with their not-yet-released Livestand product. Hm. I look forward to learning more about that when it’s out of vaporware mode.
- Liz Castro delves into the deep mysteries of new things you can do in iBooks 1.2.1, including page breaks, turning off hyphenation, and more. A few days earlier, Liz also posted a great exploration of fixed-layout epubs!
- Terry White wants to know what you want to publish on the iPad!
Enjoy!
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Thanks for the articles – great reading and viewing there. Particularly fond of the multiple indesign to pdf script, that’s fantastic!
About Adobe’s comparison chart:
“GREP support in character styles” — not true for CS3 (it was
“Tables: Inline notes” — what’s that? Text you typed in yourself? Footnotes don’t work in tables.
“IDML Support” — sure, but an additional line should state that “INX Support” was dropped per CS5 (and, as such, it should also have the “New” icon …).
?Tables: Inline notes? ? what?s that? Text you typed in yourself? Footnotes don?t work in tables.
I think they are perhaps talking about inserting a “note” into the table from the Window>Editorial menu.
Right. Once InDesign added the ability to edit tables in the Story Editor, that meant you could add Notes to them — something you couldn’t do before, and in InCopy, not only could you then add Notes to tables, but you could Track Changes in them too. Which you can do now in InDesign CS5, of course.
David,
Thank you for listing my write up of the script for converting a large number of InDesign files to PDFs. It is wonderful to be featured on this great site and to be in the company of other great articles. Keep the great stuff coming!
Thanks again!
Jake