InDesign Secrets
Adobe InDesign tips, techniques and insider info from Anne-Marie Concepcion and David Blatner.

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> 3M’s VAS: 3M’s Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits!


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  • Obscure Feature: Roger, hungry, ate 236 peaches and cantaloupes in 1904
    If you make the sample text small, the Birch font will fit the whole line in the column. 

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> Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost asset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Read about the freemium version here.


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> Santa Cruz Software has a solution for the "83% of respondents who have said they have to spend time finding a lost asset." The answer is LinkrUI, a plugin that enables direct searching, opening, placing, and syncing of assets stored in a DAM or other storage services such as Box and Dropbox from within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Read about the freemium version here.

> Adobe MAX 2021: Once again, the Creativity Conference is online and free! Register today to see all the 300+ sessions covering everything from app "how-to's" to managing design and promoting creativity. 


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  • News
  • Interview with Angelo Montilla, InDesign YouTube star and new MAX speaker
  • Nested Styles vs. GREP Styles: What's the difference?
  • Obscure InDesign Feature: Extensions

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> Adobe MAX 2021: Once again, the Creativity Conference is online and free! Register today to see all the 300+ sessions covering everything from app "how-to's" to managing design and promoting creativity. 


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  • News
  • Best practices for working with Illustrator documents in InDesign
  • Keyboard shortcut of the month: Capital E (yes, Shift-E)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature: Crop to Art

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> 3M's VAS: 3M's Visual Attention Software (VAS) is powerful, science-based AI that simulates the human vision system to analyze visual content and predicts with 92% accuracy what is attracting viewer attention. VAS is available as a web app and plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and XD. Start your free trial today, and enter promo code CREATIVEPRO5 for 5 additional trial credits!

>> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats, that actually work. in5 supports all of InDesign’s native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video; and adds its own. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us


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Using the Nonbreaking (Fixed Width) space to auto-feather a headline (set the Paragraph alignment to Justify All Lines first)

 

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  • News
  • Making presentations with InDesign
  • Keyboard shortcut of the month: Control-B (Command-B on Mac)
  • Obscure InDesign Feature: On Click (Self) 
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>> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats, that actually work. in5 supports all of InDesign's native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video—and in5 adds additional interactivity to InDesign, like 3-D Flip Cards, Responsive Layouts, Parallax, and more. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us

>> Cacidi Systems has been developing solutions for Adobe InDesign users since InDesign began! They offer a number of plug-ins and workflow system for content integration and efficient marketing production. We especially love Cacidi Charts, which has been updated and leveled up for InDesign 2020 and 2021. No more need to jump into Illustrator or Powerpoint; create gorgeous charts right in InDesign. Free trial available!

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News and special offers from our sponsors:

>> Cacidi Systems has been developing solutions for Adobe InDesign users since InDesign began! They offer a number of plug-ins and workflow system for content integration and efficient marketing production. We especially love Cacidi Charts, which has been updated and leveled up for InDesign 2020 and 2021. No more need to jump into Illustrator or Powerpoint; create gorgeous charts right in InDesign. Free trial available!


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  • News
    • Minor updates to InDesign 2021 released
    • The 2021 InDesign Conference (part of CreativePro Week) is online-only, May 17-21. Registration is open!
  • All about Transparency in InDesign — looks great, but will it print?
  • Obscure InDesign Feature: Lights 

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