In an earlier article, I wrote about how to import lots of images into InDesign at the same time. Later someone asked me how to import a folder of images so that each image shows up on a different page… Read More

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been working more with InDesign lately and thinking about how learning InDesign's layout capabilities might be of interest to more people as the Creative Cloud model makes it more readily available (i.e.… Read More

In honor of the upcoming (perennially awesome) PEPCON (Print and eProduction Conference) in Austin at the end of the month, I've decided to remember how to use InDesign. I've also been thinking about how lovers of great Photoshop and Illustrator… Read More

InGutter 2.0 for InDesign CS4/CS5/CS6 is a free script that gives you a functionality that is sorely lacking in InDesign: it allows you to easily create and manage vertical rules within multi-columns text frames (see image above). Related posts: Stop… Read More

This is a short sample of 3 items to invest. What would be your perfect combo for $100? ? 1. Lynda.com Lynda.com helps anyone learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve personal and professional goals. You will see 69… Read More

Without writing a single line of code, you can take advantage of some amazing time-saving scripts that come built-in with InDesign.… Read More

The Mac OS X Quick Look… feature can display the content from many file formats by simply pressing the Spacebar when the file is highlighted in the Finder. However, it can’t preview files from Adobe and Quark documents. MetaDesign Solutions’ Read More

AutoPrice, from Meadows Information Systems, is available as either an XTension for QuarkXPress or a plug-in for InDesign. AutoPrice links text and graphics in a database to placeholders in a QuarkXPress or InDesign document. You can use it to automatically… Read More

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-186.mp3 (17.4 MB, 32:37 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News: Upcoming speaking gigs, InDesign User Group web site, Scripts for Indexes in EPUBs, Our mascot Zoey (picture below!) New Year's… Read More

Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, August/September 2012 (issue 49). Subscribe now! read more… Read More

When I was new to programming, "regular expressions" is something that intimidated me for quite some time. All those squiggly lines, slashes and brackets did not made me fallen in love with it at the first sight. Lengthy and comprehensive… Read More

This amazing free script lets you do something you've never been able to do in InDesign before: Use the Data Merge feature with tables!… Read More

Peter Kahrel has enhanced his terrific script for adding or subtracting hours from clock time in your documents… Read More

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-180.mp3 (18.8 MB, 35:30 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Creative Cloud subscription discounted rate extended! All about GREP in InDesign Quizzler results: The right and wrong answers, and the winner!… Read More

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-179.mp3 (16.8 MB, 31:28 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Creative Cloud subscription special offer ends Aug. 31! How to collaborate with non-InDesign users PDF solutions: useful plug-ins, little-known features Microsoft… Read More

|Create your first design artwork with Adobe InDesign CS6!! Beginner Tutorial - Basic Tools - Getting started. Easy step, one-by-one! **Check the video description for the quick index of the tutorial** TEXT TUTORIAL: my English pronunciation is not that much… Read More

|Create your first design artwork with Adobe InDesign CS6!! Beginner Tutorial - Basic Tools - Getting started. Easy step, one-by-one! **Check the video description for the quick index of the tutorial** TEXT TUTORIAL: my English pronunciation is not that much… Read More

Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-174.mp3 (23.1 MB, 41:06 minutes) (Yikes!) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. News in the land of InDesign InDesignSecretsLive NYC: Recap of our June 12-13 event Apple announces iBooks supports EPUB3 on… Read More

|Create your first design artwork with Adobe InDesign CS6!! Beginner Tutorial - Basic Tools - Getting started. Easy step, one-by-one! **Check the video description for the quick index of the tutorial** SORRY NO MUSIC BECAUSE YT WAS DAMN PISSING OFF.… Read More

Posted in IllustratorInDesignPhotoshopSwitching between my InDesign layout and Safari to compare stock photo images on a website to the layout to see if the image is appropriate can be tedious - especially when you consider the time to download comp… Read More