Once again a new release of InDesign (v2017.1) focuses on the user interface. As frustrating as this may be to those users who are looking to be “wowed” by fancy new features, these changes are being made as our workflows continue to ...
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Adobe announced the release of InDesign CC 2017.1 today. Although it may be quite underwhelming to those users who wait patiently for exciting new features that often come with new versions of InDesign, several “improvements” have been made. Here is a ...
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The latest version of InDesign includes performance improvements made to the Hyperlinks panel. This is great news for anyone who is working with documents that contain multiple hyperlinks. When documents containing hyperlinks with destinations in other documents are opened, InDesign runs a check of ...
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Easy? Try hard to miss! InDesign CC 2017 offers four different ways to access and search Adobe Stock. Adobe Stock is a service that gives you access to 6o million (and counting) high-quality, curated, royalty-free photos, videos, illustrations, vector graphics, 3D assets, and templates ...
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The introduction of the Creative Cloud gave us a way to easily create design assets in multiple applications and on different devices—and then store them in CC Libraries. Having easy access to these library assets and being able to organize and use them ...
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Among the enhancements added in the InDesign CC 2017 release this one is a real time-saver. OpenType properties can now be applied to characters, words, or a story in seconds. When you select text or a text frame, a new adornment (O) ...
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InDesign users have been waiting for straddling footnotes for a very long time, and they are finally here! If you are working with multi-column text frames, inserted footnotes can span across all columns when Span Footnotes Across Columns is selected ...
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No longer do you have to use any tools outside of InDesign to get the custom arrowheads you need. The Stroke panel now lets you define the scale and alignment of the arrowheads, both start and end, that you apply to a ...
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Today, at the largest MAX creativity conference to date, Adobe revealed its mission to advance the creative process with the help of new Cloud capabilities, namely collaboration, mobility, cloud first, and machine learning (via Adobe Sensei) technologies. These capabilities were clearly demonstrated ...
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When you create new InDesign documents and choose Mobile as the Intent (formerly Digital Publishing), the page size option list has been expanded to include additional target devices, including iPhone 4, iPhone 5, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad, iPad Retina, ...
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Previously published documents can be edited and republished to the same URL, or you can publish a different document to an existing URL. This new feature allows publishers to easily update existing documents without having to distribute new URLs, and for those users who publish ...
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An important addition to InDesign CC’s Publish Online feature is Analytics. This service provides publishers with valuable information about the documents they publish online. Usage data is gathered, organized, and presented in the Analytics section of the Web Dashboard (File>Publish Online Dashboard). The Overview window displays information pertaining to ...
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When a designer is working on an InDesign layout there is no telling just how many swatches they will play with before they pick the ones they want or how many swatches are imported when art or text files are placed from ...
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See anything different? It’s not uncommon for InDesign users to sit at their monitors for hours and hours designing and editing projects. Naturally, as with too much of any good thing, this can create problems—with eye strain being one of the ...
READ MOREInDesign CC 2015.4 is now available. Here’s a quick overview of what you will find in this latest release. Improvements to user interface To combat eye strain from using InDesign for long periods of time, which is due in part to the small UI elements ...
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Although this feature update may be small, if you happen to have a bunch of InDesign CC 2014 documents that you are saving in InDesign CC 2015, it’s going to seem like a much bigger deal. The Save As dialog box behavior has ...
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The Style Override Highlighter will identify all the paragraph and character style overrides that have been applied in a document. Easily toggle the highlights on and off to get a glimpse at any additional formatting that has been added to styled text. ...
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InDesign CC 2015.3 is now available. Here’s a quick overview of what you will find in this latest release. Publish Online Enhancements The Publish Online dialog has been redesigned to offer a “more elegant and less cluttered” interface. A new option has ...
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Not only does InDesign highlight characters that have available alternate glyph characters, but it also allows a user to simply select an alternate from a contextual menu and replace the original. When a word is selected, a blue underline will ...
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There’s now a Publish Online option, conveniently located in the Print dialog box, as well as in the Export dialog boxes for EPUB and PDF. Since the release of InDesign CC 2015.2, you can choose to publish your document to the web while the document ...
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