Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy is a graphic designer and creator of The InDesigner video podcast. He is the author of Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts (Adobe Press, 2009), and the Lynda.com video training course, InDesign CS4: Learning GREP. Michael is a contributing writer for InDesign Magazine, an on-site trainer, classroom instructor, and speaker.
- Features: Written by Michael Murphy on September 8, 2011
Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, June/July 2011 (issue 42). Subscribe now!
- Features: Written by Michael Murphy on May 6, 2010
Pros: Span- and split-column paragraphs, multiple page sizes, Illustrator-style Layers panel, numerous simplified transformation options, dynamic metadata captions, text track changes, and an expansive new set of animation and interactivity features.
Cons: SWF export doesn't include scalable animations, no split columns in table cells, longstanding rotation behavior removed, Document-installed Fonts feature on Mac platform supports OpenType and TrueType only.
Rating: 95
- Features: Written by Michael Murphy on April 21, 2010
This article is excerpted from the February/March 2010 issue of InDesign Magazine, #34. Buy this issue or subscribe to InDesign Magazine.
Every InDesign user has a mental list of "I wish InDesign could…" features rattling around in their heads. We wait and hope the next version will answer these wishes, but that doesn’t always happen.
- Features: Written by Michael Murphy on June 8, 2009
This article is excerpted from Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts, published by Adobe Press.
- Features: Written by Michael Murphy on November 7, 2007
This article is excerpted from the August/September 2007 issue of InDesign Magazine, #19.
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- Features: Written by Michael Murphy on April 20, 2007Body:
Since Adobe released InDesign CS2 -- the fourth version of the company's challenge to QuarkXpress -- in 2005, a lot has happened.
