You might consider yourself an InDesign aficionado, but— Have you mastered your folio overlays? Can you create a complex multistate triggered by buttons or swiping? Have you ever created a scrolling pull tab that will float a sidebar over the ...
READ MORE
Gone are the days when designers who wanted to manipulate type for design purposes were required to use applications such as Illustrator to first convert that type into paths. InDesign’s Create Outlines feature does just that. When you select Type>Create ...
READ MOREWhile some of us have upgraded to CS5.5 or perhaps CS6, not everyone has had the opportunity yet. This can be a problem when you need to share files with freelancers or other external resources working with older versions of ...
READ MOREUp-and-Coming Tools for Content Creators, 7 Publishing Trends for 2013, TFP InDesign Tip: Using the Span Columns Feature, Making Money From Mobile, Two New TFP DPS Tips, TFP’s DPSPublish Training Welcome to TFP’s weekly roundup of interesting and noteworthy stories ...
READ MORE
InDesign includes the ability to span text —headlines for example— across multiple columns or create subcolumns of text within a single column. Span Columns can be accessed either through the Control panel or through the Paragraph Style Options dialog when ...
READ MOREThe Growth of Mobile Readers, Print’s Enduring Appeal, HTML5 Features, TFP’s Latest InDesign and DPS Tips, TFP’s Upcoming DPS Training Webinars Welcome to TFP’s weekly roundup of interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world. This week, we’re discussing the ...
READ MORE
Working with and applying master pages to layouts with a primary text flow has become less labor-intensive with the introduction of the primary text frame. Here are some suggestions for using this feature to your best advantage. The Master Text Frame ...
READ MOREInDesign provides many tools to help automate the placement of objects on a page. The Align Objects, Distribute Objects, and Distribute Spacing functions are three of the most helpful. A new feature was introduced in CS6 that enhances the Align ...
READ MORESometimes when you create a text frame, such as a caption box, in an InDesign layout, you do so without knowing how much space you’ll actually need. After typing the text into the frame, you might find that the text ...
READ MOREWith InDesign CS6, users now have the ability to easily copy, paste, and create links between objects when repurposing content for alternate layouts within a document or in different documents. A significant new feature that’s included is style mapping. Similar to ...
READ MORE
If InDesign is crashing, not performing well, or giving you fits, you might have a damaged preference file. The InDesign SavedData and InDesign Defaults files are application/preference files that store information about plug-ins, settings, and other InDesign data. If the ...
READ MOREIt’s not uncommon that text for InDesign will come from an application such as Microsoft Word. Often, this text may include extraneous characters and extra spaces that result from editorial habits or formatting applied during the editing process. Removing extraneous ...
READ MOREOne of the most anticipated features in the release of InDesign CS6 was the Alternate Layout function. Alternate Layout allows designers to create multiple versions of the same layout for different formats or devices, within a single InDesign file, saving ...
READ MOREThis week, Adobe is announcing the much-anticipated release of InDesign CS6, which brings some exciting and dramatic new changes to the design tool. TFP has been actively working with the pre-release team and key clients on several targeted projects to ...
READ MOREThis is a unique website which will require a more modern browser to work!
Please upgrade today!