July, 2013 | CreativePro Network

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 108

It’s hot! Well, at least it’s hot here… we just had a google hangout with a colleague in Australia and she was bundled up for winter. But it’s not just hot in a climatological sense! It’s a hot time for InDesign. People teaching, people learning, people experimenting… and here at InDesignSecrets, our goal is to […]

Meet Hal Lasko, the 97-year-old Digital Artist

If you’re still around at age 97, what do you think you’ll be doing? Will you still be producing creative work every day? Still engaged with learning new tech and tools? That would be quite an achievement, and in case you need any inspiration to believe that such a goal really is achievable, check out […]

Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500: Paper’s Bridge to the Digital World

I think one of the reasons people enjoy the movie Tron is that it describes what we do each day: We cross the bridge between analog and digital worlds. That’s our job: to enter the realm of the computer and manipulate data—whether through code or graphics, or the text I’m typing and you’re reading. And […]

Finally! Improved Conditional Text

Several years ago, Adobe introduced Conditional Text into InDesign CS4. In case you haven’t used it before (and about 95% of InDesign users haven’t) Conditional Text lets you show and hide bits of text to output various versions from the same InDesign document. Here is a link to a great video about how to use conditions […]

Pay What You Want For Premium Fonts

What’s your favorite price to pay for a font? $0.00 right? Naturally. That’s why services like FontSquirrel and Google Fonts are as popular as they are. But the quality of free fonts varies widely and the old saying that “you get what you pay for” is often true. So if you had to pay for […]

Quark Announces QuarkXPress 10

Press Release DENVER, CO – July 24, 2013 – Quark announced today QuarkXPress® 10 (www.quark.com/10), the new version of the graphic design and page layout software for designers who love print and live digital. New inside and out, QuarkXPress 10 includes Quark’s new Xenon Graphics Engine, Retina® display support, a modern architecture, and over fifty […]

Coming Soon: Josef Albers Interaction of Color iPad app

In 1963, Josef Albers’s pioneering resource on color theory, Interaction of Color, was published by Yale University Press. Fifty years and a quarter million sold copies later, the book is widely regarded as a masterwork in art education. And now to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the book is being released later this summer as an […]

Mirroring Vertical Ruler Guides

The layout I most commonly use is one for facing pages, where the settings on the left-hand page are mirrored on the right (or you could consider the right-hand page mirrored on the left). It’s easy to set the body text area to be mirrored. I just set the Inside margins to where I want […]

Adobe Announces Creative Cloud for Teams Single App plan

Adobe continues to expand the options for subscribing to its Creative Cloud. The newly announced addition is a Creative Cloud for Teams Single App plan, which allows businesses to use one CC application and get 20GB of cloud storage, plus access to Behance ProSite. The new plan will be available August 15th (pre-orders begin August 1st) […]