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Align and Space Objects with InDesign's Smart Guides
How-Tos: Written by Sandee Cohen on December 28, 2011
Everyone who has InDesign CS4 or CS5 can benefit from Smart Guides, which automatically pop up as you drag out or move objects on the page. Learn how to use them to align two or more objects to the page and to each other. You'll also be able to space objects equally, rotate them equally, and more. It's smart to use Smart Guides!
InDesign How-To: Print Colors Correctly
How-Tos: Written by Sandee Cohen on October 17, 2011
Learn how to use InDesign's Separations Preview and you can be confident that your print jobs have smooth color combinations, the appropriate knockouts and overprints, and just the right amount of ink.
InDesign Efficiency: Keep Your Hand on the Keyboard
How-Tos: Written by David Blatner on October 3, 2011
InDesign's Quick Apply is an amazing yet underused feature that greatly improves your efficiency and is even better than keyboard shortcuts, since you only have to remember one key combination.
New Video Series Introduces You to InDesign's Secretarial Skills
How-Tos: Written by Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion on August 29, 2011
David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción of the InDesignSecrets blog have a new series on lynda.com with an almost identical name: "InDesign Secrets". In the first episode of the lynda.com series, you'll learn how to turn InDesign's auto-correct feature into a robot secretary that enters long words and phrases for you.
Five Healthy Habits in InDesign
How-Tos: Written by Sandee Cohen on August 18, 2011
Adopt these InDesign habits and you'll work smarter and faster. We've made it easy by providing five free downloads that give you a running start on each habit.
Track Down Obscure Glyphs in InDesign
How-Tos: Written by David Blatner on July 11, 2011
There are many characters that don't appear on standard keyboards. Here's how to enter those hard-to-reach glyphs in Adobe InDesign.
Extract Vector Logos from PDFs
How-Tos: Written by Kelly Vaughn on April 25, 2011
We designers have learned to work around all sorts of situations that aren't ideal. For example, sometimes the only available vector version of a logo is embedded in a PDF. Here's how to extract that logo from the PDF.
QuarkXPress Tips for Type, Pages, & Paths
How-Tos: Written by Jay J. Nelson on April 18, 2011
Learn how to replace fonts across a QuarkXPress document; give editable text a fuzzy edge; flip a Bezier path from top to bottom; and start a file with a spread.
Drop 20 Pounds with InDesign
How-Tos: Written by David Blatner Mike Rankin on April 4, 2011
Are your InDesign files so full of junk that they're clogging your printer? Slowing down your processor? Taking more than their share of hard drive space? Here's how to make them slim, svelte, and ready to jog all the way to the printer or screen. We can't help you fit into too-tight clothes, but it's easy to put your InDesign files on a diet.
First Baseline Blues
How-Tos: Written by James Felici on March 21, 2011
Don't let frames dictate your layout. Here's how to make sure you have precise control over the position of your type on the page.
Make Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign Get Along
How-Tos: Written by Pariah Burke on July 22, 2010
Death, taxes, and importing Word files into InDesign: They’re all inevitable. I can’t help with the first two, but here’s how to make the best of the third.
QuarkXPress Tips for Everyday Tasks
How-Tos: Written by Jay J. Nelson on May 26, 2010
With just a few words and a screenshot or two, we'll show you how to control text wraps, move pages between documents, preview printing colors, and uncover buried items -- all in QuarkXPress!
Design Postcards to Connect
How-Tos: Written by Cathy Palmer on May 17, 2010
Make sure your message is delivered by laying out and printing postcards correctly.
Analyze Images in InDesign Documents
How-Tos: Written by Keith Gilbert on March 10, 2010
Read this how-to and you'll be able to detect whether images have been stretched, flipped, or cropped. Plus, you'll learn how to inspect image metadata, determine image colors, extract embedded images, discover the image's location, and much more. Never again will you be baffled by images in InDesign files. Instead, you'll be a CSI: Creative Suite Investigator!
Making eBooks from InDesign, Part 1
How-Tos: Written by Gabriel Powell on January 21, 2010
In Part 1 of this 2-part series, you’ll learn how to create portable EPUB files that can be read on a computer, smartphone, or dedicated eBook reader.
Easy Fixes for Microsoft Word Formatting in InDesign
How-Tos: Written by Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion on November 12, 2009
Two free and easy-to-use scripts convert Word's local formatting to InDesign's character styles. Two more retain InDesign formatting when you export text formatted with automatically applied character styles.
Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress
How-Tos: Written by Jay J. Nelson on November 5, 2009
This process is ideal when you want to give a Web developer pictures that you cropped, rotated, or altered in QuarkXPress. It's also useful for converting a picture from one file format or color space to another.
Acrobat How-to: Add Text to PDFs
How-Tos: Written by Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion on August 20, 2009
There are a couple of ways to add text to a PDF, but with this method, you can style the text and the box it's in. A bonus tip explains how to ensure that the added text always prints.
But Will It Print?
How-Tos: Written by Steve Werner on June 11, 2009
Ten tips for creating an InDesign file that prints perfectly.
QuarkXPress Tips: Word Import, Printing Fix, Preview Prescience
How-Tos: Written by Jay J. Nelson on June 11, 2009
In this collection of quick and handy tips, learn how to improve importing from Microsoft Word, troubleshoot QuarkXPress printer problems, cut paths, and more.
