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InDesign Updates


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We gained a lot of experience from creating Book Design Made Simple. You can learn from our successes and avoid our pitfalls! We’ve written blog posts about InDesign updates in 2018 including live endnotes, as well as the 2017 updates about new footnotes features and scaling arrowheads.

 

Excerpts from Book Design Made Simple

  • Word vs InDesign: why learning InDesign is a good idea
  • Stroke panel: creating lines, arrows, and more

 

InDesign video tutorials

  • Scaling arrowheads
  • Blue highlighting in Indesign CC2017

 

Blog posts

Below are all the blog posts tagged with InDesign updates, starting with the most recent post.

InDesign Book feature: the good, the bad, and the ugly

December 10, 2018 By Fiona Raven 2 Comments

InDesign book featureThe InDesign Book feature provides a great way to combine smaller InDesign files into one larger Book file. It’s easy to use, and you’ll find our step-by-step guide to using the Book feature here. But, after using the InDesign Book feature for Book Design Made Simple and numerous other book projects, we’ve discovered that it’s not perfect—so forewarned is forearmed! [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: contents, footnotes/endnotes, InDesign updates

InDesign endnotes go live in CC2018

November 6, 2017 By Fiona Raven 14 Comments

CC 2018 InDesign Updates - InDesign endnotes.Adobe’s 2018 update for InDesign includes a great new feature for book designers—live InDesign endnotes. Until now, footnotes and endnotes could be imported from Word to InDesign, but only footnotes continued to be live and linked, allowing us to insert and delete them without messing up the numbering system. Now we have the same flexibility with endnotes! [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: contents, footnotes/endnotes, InDesign updates, paragraph styles, text frames

It’s YouTube time!

March 13, 2017 By Glenna Collett Leave a Comment

author working on a YouTube videoMy chair creaks. Start over. I sneeze. Start over. The phone rings. Move it out of the room and start over. “Ummm.” Start over. Someone comes in the room and rustles around. Start over. If I had a dog it would definitely be barking about now. Start over, start over, start over!

Such are the interruptions when I sit down to make a five-minute video about using InDesign. [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: InDesign updates

Using the Book feature in InDesign

January 9, 2017 By Glenna Collett 19 Comments

Book feature for hardcover bookInDesign’s Book feature can be handy! Let’s say you’re working on a book with lots of images and/or chapters. And the file sizes are enormous. In fact, they are so big that you thought it would be smart to divide the book into separate documents for parts or chapters. That’s exactly what we did with Book Design Made Simple. It was more convenient for us to swap smaller sections back and forth than to send the entire book each time. All the parts or chapters were linked together at the end using InDesign’s Book feature. So this blog post explains how to create a Book file, or as we call it, “book” a book.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: contents, InDesign updates, paragraph styles

Adobe Creative Cloud 2017

December 12, 2016 By Glenna Collett 2 Comments

cube with CC2017 spelled outIn early November, we all woke up to find Adobe Creative Cloud waiting to be updated. What—again? Well, it turns out that this update, CC 2017, does provide some InDesign enhancements that might help you work more effectively and improve your design. We’ll discuss the significant ones here. [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: footnotes/endnotes, InDesign updates, typesetting

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