Starting with the 2021 release, InDesign has enhanced the auto-repair mechanism that detects and automatically recovers corrupted documents. Multiple factors, both internal and external to InDesign, can lead to a document becoming corrupted, making this feature update crucial. When a ...
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Add Quick Apply to your production tools and see how this type of shortcut will be an essential part of working efficiently in InDesign. When using the Quick Apply function, you can access and apply styles, menu commands, scripts, variables, ...
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Most designers know that styles are an effective way to efficiently format text, and that it’s best to apply styles consistently to ensure a cohesive, visually pleasing design. The Redefine Paragraph and Character Styles feature gives you the ability to visually redesign how ...
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The June 2020 release of Adobe InDesign (v15.1) offers the option to automatically activate any missing Adobe Fonts from the Adobe Fonts site (without you having to go there and find them) when a document is opened. This process happens ...
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It may seem so simple, but what a time-saver for anyone working on a text-heavy document! Similar to the search direction feature in the Find/Change dialog, you can now choose to search backward when spell checking a document. No more ...
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Gone are the days of needing to manually add column rules to your text frames. No more placing rules on master pages or grouping text frames and hand-drawn lines. Better yet, no more searching for rogue rules after text frames ...
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With just a click you can find images that are similar to a currently selected image on your InDesign layout. The list of Creative Cloud features that are an integral part of your InDesign workflow just grew. The Find Similar ...
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Adding footnotes to the text in a table is as easy as adding them to any regular text box, however there are some limitations to be aware of with their formatting. Add footnotes to the text in a table by ...
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When it comes to placing images, especially large numbers of images, this new feature introduced in InDesign CC 2019, automates several steps and is a great time-saver. InDesign can now evaluate an image being placed, along with the frame’s dimensions ...
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If your collaborative workflow uses PDFs exported from InDesign as an editorial tool to review a document and send comments and corrections back to the InDesign user, you really need to try this new feature. The Import PDF Comments feature ...
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Anxious to see the new features in the latest version of InDesign? Did you click the Update button and realize it has removed older versions of the application, one of which you are using for a project perhaps? When you ...
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The introduction of endnotes in the last release of InDesign was a big deal, but now you have the ability to convert footnotes to endnotes and vice versa. Just go to Type>Convert Footnote and Endnote to open this new dialog ...
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Adobe MAX 2018: Creativity’s Golden Age At today’s opening MAX keynote, the Adobe Creative Cloud team unveiled numerous new tools, features, and innovations. CEO Shantanu Narayen’s presentation stressed how Adobe is focusing on how creativity plays a major role in education, business, and ...
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We’ve all read the staggering statistics regarding the amount of content users read on their mobile devices. Because of this, creating layouts that look good and are legible on those devices is crucial. To that end, new mobile and tablet ...
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We have a new No. 1: InDesign Tip: Hide Panels and Toolbars Quickly! Sharing Adobe InDesign tips, shortcuts, and best practices that help you work smarter and more efficiently, continues to be great fun for us at Technology for Publishing. So, ...
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If you are a using any combination of InDesign with Photoshop or Illustrator, this is good news for you. You now have the option to use Photoshop or Illustrator keyboard shortcuts in InDesign. If you have these applications installed on ...
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Are you collaborating with a team in the Creative Cloud? Are you working with a shared library that contains a large number of assets? Do you scroll endlessly looking for the assets you need? Or do you use the search ...
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As if the ability to add shading behind paragraph text wasn’t exciting enough, now you can customize the corners of that shading! As you set the color, tint, and offset values on each side of the shading, you can also ...
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Hexadecimal color values are six-digit numbers used in HTML, CSS, SVG, and other computing applications to represent the red, green, and blue components of colors. Our tip image shows a color’s RGB make-up as well as its hex value: ffb720. ...
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If your documents use numerous cross-references then this tip is great news for you. With the release of InDesign CC 2018 version 13.1, creating a cross-reference no longer requires selecting a paragraph style, for instance a chapter head, and then ...
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