If you care at all about type, design or InDesign (or any combination thereof), you should have Nigel French’s book: InDesign Type. I’m only partially through it and I can make that recommendation. This book is cleanly designed, well-written, and concise … (read more)
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Buy This Book!
May 31st, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
The Amazon.com Box Arrives
May 26th, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
Whenever I get back from a conference, I either bring back or immediately buy several books. They’ll either be books by a particularly good speaker, or that a speaker or conference attendee has mentioned and recommended. Well, the first batch arrived today. … (read more)
How I Spent My Creative Suite Vacation
May 24th, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
Last week, I spent six consecutive days immersed in InDesign and other Creative Suite applications (mostly Photoshop and Acrobat) in the beautiful city of Chicago at the back-to-back InDesign and Creative Suite Conferences. I’ve mentioned this event a lot in the podcast episodes leading up to it, so I figured a quick run-down of the event — now that I’ve attended it — would be useful.
I had several goals while attending this conference. … (read more)
Episode 21: Automated Jump Lines (VIDEO)
May 20th, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
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 lot of things you didn’t know InDesign could do. In this episode, I take a look at Automated Jump Lines — a feature that was new to me and that I immediately started using … (read more)
Show Notes for Episode 20
May 11th, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
In this episode, I wanted to include — but couldn’t for timing reasons — information about a couple of great table utilities for InDesign. One is a $24.95 shareware script called PopTabFmClip.js (short for Populate Table From Clipboard) which will paste updated data into a pre-formatted table and preserve the formatting. The other is a more expensive (but proportionally more powerful) $299 plug-in from Teacup Software called Table & Cell Styles Pro that adds Paragraph/Character/Object Style formatting capabilities to Tables, maintains dynamic links back to the origonal data source, and more.
Episode 20: Table Talk, Part 3 (VIDEO)
May 11th, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
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 tables are used to demonstrate placing graphics and shapes into tables as … (read more)
Now With Expert Credentials!
May 5th, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
The InDesigner — namely me — is now backed up by Adobe Certified Expert credentials in InDesign CS2.
If any of you out there are considering taking this same step, my advice is: study, study, study! If you think being good with InDesign at work is enough…think again. This is a very difficult test, taken completely out of the context of working in the application (i.e., it’s all multiple choice questions and you don’t have the application or any materials to refer to). If there are some features of InDesign you don’t use in your job — i.e., XML, Books, Interactive PDFs — learn them before plunking down your (or your company’s) $150 for the exam.
Episode 19: Table Talk, Part 2 (VIDEO)
April 30th, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
The second installment of the video series covering Tables gets down to the smallest details. This “intermediate” episode covers the settings you can apply in the Table Options and Cell Options dialog boxes, how InDesign differentiates between Header, Footer and Body rows, how to automate … (read more)
Batting 1000
April 21st, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
The InDesigner has passed the 1000 subscribers level. That’s the average number of downloads for each episode…some episodes are significantly higher. I’m thrilled that so many people around the world are finding and using the podcast. I’m watching the stats and hope it continues to grow. Thanks to all of you for your continued support.
Episode 18: Table Talk, Part 1 (VIDEO)
April 20th, 2006 | by Michael Murphy
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 with tables, but haven’t used them that much, you’re going to find that the level of design control you have over tables — and the ways in which you can use them — is far beyond … (read more)