The InDesigner
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The InDesigner
A podcast for graphic designers using InDesign who want to tap into the power of Adobe's page-layout powerhouse to accomplish big tasks easily and free up their time to concentrate on designing.
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The InDesigner - Episode 55 (VIDEO)
Learn how to use GREP to describe all items in a list that begin with the same letter, then insert a space between and/or add an alphabetical heading...
The InDesigner - Episode 54 (VIDEO)
Launch day for Adobe's Creative Suite 5 is here, and so is my first podcast episode dedicated to the newest version of InDesign. In this episode, I ta...
The InDesigner - Episode 53 (VIDEO)
Checkboxes and radio buttons and comb fields…oh my! In this episode, I take a look at adding form elements to an InDesign layout to create Acrobat-fri...
The InDesigner - Episode 52 (VIDEO)
Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of work designing forms, which present their own unique design challenges, one of which is that more forms are being c...
The InDesigner - Episode 51 (VIDEO)
Today, Adobe announces the Creative Suite 4 in all of its various iterations (Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium, and so on). This update...
The InDesigner - Episode 50 (VIDEO)
Inspired by a question from a podcast subscriber about creating a text frame that looks like a folder tab, and with the help of a technique suggested...
The InDesigner - Episode 49 (VIDEO)
Most of us are familiar with the two types of Paragraph Rules, but in InDesign, despite their names, a Rule Above can easily appear below your text, a...
The InDesigner - Episode 48 (VIDEO)
At last month's InDesign Conference in Miami, an unexpected blackout cut my typography session short, so my demonstration of OpenType features never s...
The InDesigner - Episode 47 (VIDEO)
A subscriber's question about moving and copying layers led me to peel away the layers of the Paste Remembers Layers setting and discover a few things...
The InDesigner - Episode 46 (VIDEO)
OK...Christmas has already come and gone, I know, but it's still technically the holiday season, and the title of this episode is the title of a Chris...
The InDesigner - Episode 45 (VIDEO)
Normally, I pick one InDesign feature and build a whole episode around it. However, this is the second anniversary of the podcast, and I wanted to dem...
The InDesigner - Episode 44 (VIDEO)
It's that little feature we all take for granted, but InDesign's Text Wrap is a vast improvement over that other page layout application's Runaround f...
The InDesigner - Episode 43 (VIDEO)
Who says data and design are mutually exclusive? Not InDesign, that's for sure. Under the right circumstances, data-driven layout is the way to go. Un...
The InDesigner - Episode 42 (VIDEO)
Who wants to see the home videos from my vacation? Before you run for the exits, let me rephrase that: Who wants to learn about how to add and work wi...
The InDesigner - Episode 41 (VIDEO)
How would you like to have all versions of your (or your client's) logo available in one placed file and never have to worry about re-positioning them...
The InDesigner - Episode 40 (VIDEO)
It's time to get back to the original mission of the videocast -- real-world examples of InDesign in action to help you work better, smarter and faste...
The InDesigner - Episode 39 (VIDEO)
Another glipmse into the new and improved user experience you can expect when CS3 ships. This episode takes a quick look at the Pages palette (which n...
The InDesigner - Episode 38 (VIDEO)
Icons and panels and docks...oh my!
At long last, the wait is over and the veil of secrecy is lifted. In this first look at InDesign CS3, I give...
The InDesigner - Episode 37 (VIDEO)
The thrilling conclusion of the Long Documents series is finally here! In this episode, I wrap it all up with some last indexing shortcuts, generating...
The InDesigner - Episode 36 (VIDEO)
Continuing with the very long series on long document features after a long break, this episode finally tackles the feature that is the bane of many a...
The InDesigner - Episode 35 (VIDEO)
Picking up right where the last episode finished, I continue to edit and adjust my Table of Contents, demonstrating the "proper" way to make changes,...
The InDesigner - Episode 34 (VIDEO)
Continuing the Long Documents series with the same book files used in Episode 33, this installment covers how to create an automated, dynamic Table of...
The InDesigner - Episode 33 (VIDEO)
After a long wait, here's a long episode about working with long documents in InDesign. This first installment in a three-part series covers the the B...
The InDesigner - Episode 32 (VIDEO)
It's the one-year anniversary of The InDesigner podcast -- a year that exceeded all of my preset expectations. This episode both looks back on the pas...
The InDesigner - Episode 31 (VIDEO)
No, this isn't the white space you learned about in design school. Rather, this episode takes an in-depth look at all eight (yes, eight!) different ty...
The InDesigner - Episode 30 (VIDEO)
InDesign boasts a robust and powerful Find/Change feature that incorporates its even more powerful Paragraph and Character Style features, allowing yo...
theInDesigner - Episode 29 (VIDEO)
The first InDesigner episode as an official member of the InDesignSecrets team, this installment is all about building photographic compositions on yo...
theInDesigner - Episode 28 (VIDEO)
Picking up right where Part 1 left off, this episode concludes my InDesign Inventory of features put to work in the design of a 256-page magazine. In...
theInDesigner - Episode 27 (VIDEO)
When you complete 4 full-page ads, 19 charts and graphs, and 123 page layouts in 24 working days, you really see how InDesign's features make a big pr...
theInDesigner - Episode 26 (VIDEO)
Control and update dozens of styles by changing only one or two. This episode demonstrates my method for creating master paragraph and character style...
theInDesigner - Episode 25 (VIDEO)
If you're using tracking to control the look of your type at the paragraph level -- like I will confess to doing in the past -- you're missing out on...
theInDesigner - Episode 24 (VIDEO)
I usually stick to things that can be done automatically within InDesign, but every now and then, you can't avoid the fact that some things just haven...
theInDesigner - Episode 23 (VIDEO)
In response to a subscriber who was concerned about using Transparency without causing output problems, this episode provides guidelines for best prac...
theInDesigner - Episode 22 (VIDEO)
Collect your custom characters into an easy-to-use set by using the Glyphs palette. Whether you need quick access to dingbats, accented characters, fr...
theInDesigner - Episode 21 (VIDEO)
When you actually read the InDesign User Guide cover-to-cover -- which I did to study for my recent Adobe certification exam -- you actually find a lo...
theInDesigner - Episode 20 (VIDEO)
Add bells and whistles to your rows and columns in the conclusion of the three-part Tables series. Examples of real-world design projects that feature...
theInDesigner - Episode 19 (VIDEO)
The second installment of the Tables series gets down to the smallest details. This "intermediate" episode covers the settings you can apply in the Ta...
theInDesigner - Episode 18 (VIDEO)
If you haven't already discovered InDesign's robust table-creation feature, you're going to be quite impressed by what it can do. If you're familiar w...
theInDesigner - Episode 17 (VIDEO)
As designers, we have a lot of stuff we need to have at our disposal quickly. But finding a place for that stuff and knowing what stuff you need is a...
theInDesigner - Episode 16
There's nothing wrong with your monitor. This is NOT a video episode. This week, there's more to talk about than to see as I discuss re-creating old l...