You’ve created a document in InDesign. It’s time to export. There are so many choices out there. PDF for print and interactive. Publish Online, ePub, both Fixed Layout as well as Reflowable. Then there are all the third party enterprise plug-ins. My favorite way to export from InDesign is to use in5 by Ajar Productions. …
Let’s get Interactive with InDesign. What are my choices? Read More »
There are two delete keys. One deletes to the left and one to the right. If you think of the vertical open area on the keyboard as a cursor, you’ll always remember which way it goes. So now you don’t have to use your arrow keys to move to the end of a word to …
I remember my first job out of college. I was a designer (desktop publisher) at a local printer, using QuarkXPress – probably 3.0 or 3.3. I was making a brochure, and my text kept disappearing after I hit Enter. I was getting frustrated and kept closing my document without saving to start over. I finally …
There are 2 Enter/Return Keys on an extended keyboard. They are not the same. Read More »
If you’ve ever been in one of my classes, you may remember that “the phrase that pays” is SELECT to AFFECT. This means simply that if you want to bold a word, you must first SELECT that word. Then you can bold it. If you want to fill a square with red, you can’t just look …
If you have zoomed into your page, and would like to move that page around to see something to the side or top or bottom, many people will reach for the scroll bars, which in my experience, always go the wrong way. Another way is to use the Page Grabber Hand Tool. This tool looks …
Switching between the tools in InDesign can make you lose valuable time and make your arm hurt! My left hand is always on my keyboard, so I use my modifier keys to switch between my tools. Hold Command and Spacebar (mac) | CTRL and Spacebar (win) while you’re on any tool. The zoom tool will be …
I create digital scrapbooks. So for some pages, I use lots of different fonts. I’m always looking for something fun, different and cool. In the new InDesign CC 2018, you can filter your fonts by Classification. So if I find a script font, I can see ALL of the script fonts I’ve got installed, instead …