This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 118
Interested in typography? DPS? Design? Whatever your interest, we have something at InDesignSecrets for you… but of course, there’s even more out there! Here’s some links you should look at:
- Still using Mac OS 10.6 or earlier? Watch out, as Adobe is dropping support.
- And, while we’re on the topic, Adobe is also dropping support for DPS in CS5 and CS5.5 later this year.
- Peachpit Press has released the 3rd edition of Nigel French’s InDesign Type book! It’s chock full of good information. (In fact, I liked it so much, I agreed to write the foreword.)
- Speaking of type and typography, you need to check out this wonderful type-matching game: TypeConnection
- Here are two music-related InDesign tutorials:
- First, a nice low-key video tutorial on Designing an Event Poster in InDesign
- Next, a step-by-step for How To Make A Simple Music Festival Poster
- Here’s a short tutorial on how to create a magazine cover and inner-spread
- Adobe seems to be doing pretty well financially and now has over 1.85 million Creative Cloud members. Read The Economist’s take on why investors are so happy with how Adobe is doing, even though their revenues are down.
- Just for fun: You know the movie “There Will Be Blood?” Here’s the print version.
- Here’s a terrific overview of hyphens: Know Your Hyphens, En and Em Dashes
- And if you’re looking for even more lists of awesome links this week, check out Mike Rankin’s great The CreativePro Weekly Top 10, vol. 8
Enjoy!
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“Watch out, as Adobe is dropping support.”
Adobe don’t like to tell *when* they will drop the “next major release” on us?
Uwe
Uwe Laubender mentions a ‘next major release.’ As I understand Creative Cloud, major releases may become a thing of the past. The old scheme encouraged Adobe to hold back already developed new features in order to sell that next major release. The new subscription scheme encourages Adobe to give us new features as soon they’re ready to justify that rent we’re paying. Adobe will probably still use version numbering, since it’s useful, and a major update may tick over the big numbers, but there won’t be these major jolts every 18 months to two years.
That’s why I like CC. I get updates quicker and I get them a few at a time, so I have a chance to actually learn all of them. Under the old system, adapting to a new release was like drinking from a fire hose. It was too much at once.
There also seem to be hints that Adobe’s software developers are adapting to this new system. InDesign has gotten two modest updates in the last month. In fact, the Creative Cloud app tells me that I downloaded one 3 days ago and another 13 days ago.
Keep in mind that, compared to many other professions, a Creative Cloud subscription is an excellent deal. Doctors and lawyers, for instance, pay far more to access professional databases as the tools of their trade. I can never really understand those who’ve got sour grapes about this change to cloud membership. If you’re any good with Adobe’s products, they quickly earn their cost. I can cover the cost of an ID-only subscription in only minutes of outside work.
–Michael W. Perry, Inkling Books
Hi, Michael!
Did you follow the link?
“next major release” were not my words.
Adobe said so…
Uwe