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Monthly Archives: December 2019

Peter Kahrel's Script Repository Comes to CreativePro

Peter Kahrel’s repository of scripts is an immensely important resource for anyone who works on long documents in InDesign. It contains essential scripts for batch converting files, sorting and merging tables, working with book documents, managing footnotes and endnotes, using GREP, and much, much more. Recently, Peter made the decision to move and close down […]

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CreativePro Video: Choosing Complementary Colors in Illustrator

In this week’s CreativePro video, Mark Heaps shows off a super simple way to choose a color’s complement in Illustrator. He also demonstrates how simply choosing the inverse of a color can bring about unexpected—and undesirable—results. New videos every Tuesday on our CreativePro YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss any!

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InDesign How-to Video: Ignore Color in a Character Style

In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Mike Rankin shows how easy it is to ignore a color within an InDesign character style. This makes it easy to have one style—a hyperlink, for instance—that can be applied to text of any color, without resulting in overrides. Check out new tutorials every Tuesday on our InDesign Secrets YouTube […]

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Variable Fonts in InDesign

This article appeared in Issue 128 of InDesign Magazine. A concise Q&A guide to navigating InDesign 2020’s newest tool for type. Graphic design control freaks rejoice! While variable fonts have been supported in Illustrator and Photoshop for the past year, we now get to use them in InDesign 2020! In this article, I’ll explain what variable fonts […]

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InDesign How-to Video: Wrap Text Around Image Edges

In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Anne-Marie Concepcion shows the easiest way to wrap text along the edge of an image in InDesign. If the image is on a solid contrasting background, using Detect Edges makes wrapping the text a one-step process! Check out new tutorials every Tuesday on our InDesign Secrets YouTube channel, then join […]

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