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Issue #23 - April/May 2008 David Blatner shares his best quick tips for getting more work done in less time. The what, why, and how of XML. Includes a simple tutorial with sample files. The best ways to align objects. If you think Master Pages and funk music don't go together, think again. An interview with Nick Sherman: skateboarder, rocker, InDesigner. Listen to Nick play as you look at his work! Reviews of Page Control 2.0 and MIF Filter. Q&A column. Quick takes on helpful products. InDesign cartoon, featuring the antics of Russell Viers and Michael Ninness. An index of our first 23 issues. Download   file size = 11.7MB

Issue #22 - February/March 2008 Tips for helping your display type look its best Transparency in InDesign -- make it work for you What is JDF, and should you care? How-to on sorting text and tables InDesign template advice Reviews of Layer Groups, Layer Comps, and Smart Layout Q&A column Quick takes on helpful products InDesign cartoon An index of our first 22 issues! Download   file size = 11.2MB

Issue #21 - December 2007/January 2008 Tips on going beyond CMYK to the land of spot colors, varnishes, metallics, mirror board, translucent paper, and more. Tutorial on building tool tips for PDFs inside InDesign. The best way to swap files between InDesign CS3 and CS2 users. A calendar how-to that comes with its own script and text file. The cure for Manuallinebreakitis, a terrible disease affecting many InDesign users. Reviews of PDF2ID and AutoFit. Four Japanese designers sharing their work and their visions. Q&A column. Quick takes on helpful products. InDesign cartoon. Download   file size = 16MB

Issue #20 - October/November 2007 If your project involves almost any kind of fold and you donÕt set up the InDesign file correctly, youÕll lose time and money. Includes two free scripts that help you set up your INDD files. Master the many kinds of text wrap *and* get a free skull font. The typesetter of the American edition of the Harry Potter series reveals the secrets behind his InDesign workflow. Take your InDesign settings anywhere. (Also good for restoring settings after an upgrade.) Real tips straight from the new book, Real World InDesign CS3 A close look at the work of ShowtimeÕs The Red Group. Review of DTP Tools Cross-References 1.0 Q&A column InDesign cartoon News: Important InDesign CS3 update Download   file size = 15MB

Issue #19 - August 2007/September 2007 David Blatner unmasks InDesign's hidden characters. Tips and tricks from Sandee Cohen. Terri Stone gathers insights and lots of stunning examples from the publishing design director of Chronicle Books. (Bonus: How you too can work for Chronicle) Reviews of InPreflight and ChartBot. David Blatner ferrets out Tim Cole, Adobe's elusive InDesign evangelist. Russell Viers' industry cartoon. Jeff Gamet's quick takes on helpful products. Harry Potter hearts InDesign, and other industry news. Michael Murphy's feature on formatting tables spends more time on the design principles behind successful tables than on software instruction. Pariah S. Burke's new column, InTime, is all about efficiency. Anne-Marie Concepcion's article on InCopy CS3 explains how it can fit into your InDesign workflow. Download   file size = 12MB

Issue #18 - June 2007/July 2007 Create well-designed e-forms in InDesign and Acrobat to extend your all-important brand. With a combo of InDesign, Bridge, and our specially modified scripts, you can create customized contact sheets without opening Photoshop. Reviews of eight font managers for Mac and Windows. How-to on best practices in applying color to text and objects. Trick InDesign into generating default layer sets. The debut of the InDesign Magazine cartoon page. Q&As on horizontal cursor position, placing indesign files inside InDesign files, text variables, and Pantone color confusion. Profile of the original InDesigner, Scott Citron. Quick takes on new and upgraded products. Download   file size = 25MB

Issue #17 - April 2007/May 2007 Michael Murphy takes you on a tour of InDesign CS3's highlights. David Blatner pokes around ID CS3's corners to uncover the little stuff that affects your everyday workflow. Anne-Marie Concepcion and Pariah S. Burke step you through using the Photoshop-like effects that are now inside InDesign. Sandee Cohen translates GREP, a language unknown to most creative pros, into something you can understand and use to be more efficient. David interviews ID CS3 senior product manager Chad Siegel. Diane Burns dons her chef's hat to serve up a tasty how-to on InDesign's Pathfinder commands. Sandee's InQuestion column tackles misbehaving margins, InDesign Interchange files, and more. Erica Gamet reviews ImageSwapper, a boon for FPO workflows. Brian Lawler reviews HVC Color Composer, a color picker and palette maker that goes way beyond the expected. Jeff Gamet dips into a slew of new products, from a printer's wall clock to a font identifier. Russell Viers introduces you to tomorrow's designers at the American School in London. Download   file size = 12MB

Issue #16 - February 2007/March 2007 How-to on weaving an image in front and back of vector text, a la "Sports Illustrated." How-to on using InDesign to create interactive buttons in Acrobat PDFs. Q&As on changing views when changing pages, thin spaces that don't break, and the dreaded white box transparency issue. The next time you're asked to create an InDesign document that involves formatting lots of data, consider one of the automation options in this article. It may not be register high on the Flash-o-meter, but proper H&J will keep your text looking good and your readers reading. We've got detailed specs on getting it right. Review of Page Control, a brilliant plug-in from the minds of Pariah S. Burke and the folks at DTP Tools. Review of Clever TextLink, a plug-in that simplifies the process of unlinking text thread without losing any content. It's clever indeed. Quick takes on new and upgraded products. Guest designer Nigel French reveals his thoughts on the design of this issue, if regional design exists, and whether David Bowie would beat Barry Gibb in a fist fight. Download   file size = 11MB

Issue #15 - December 2006/January 2007 Tipapalooza 2, AKA 19 pages of short, easy-to digest tips from some of the best names in the biz. A step-by-step how-to on automating a pesky table of contents (TOCs). Review of Gluon ProScale ID 7.0. Review of LinkOptimzer 2.0 from Zevrix Solutions. Q&As on mysterious paragraph indent problems, four-letter extensions, table alignment, and Pantone color libraries. Interview with and lotsa visuals from Fossil, the design-savvy watch company. Adobe Senior Computer Scientist Matt Phillips talks about transparency and color management. Quick takes on new and upgraded products. Download   file size = 12MB

Issue #14 - October/November 2006 Design better with grids. See real-life examples and get hands-on tips. Snippets? Bridge? Bah! Good, old-fashioned Libraries are a great way to manage your InDesign assets. Some designers look down on gradients, but when used wisely, they can add a lot to your design projects. See samples from the student winners of the 2006 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Watch a major magazine get a redesign -- in InDesign. Reviews of two apps that extract paragraph and character styles. Scale anything better. Q&As on order-form lines, gradients for spot color tints, and insetting text boxes. Quick takes on new and upgraded products. Download   file size = 14MB

Issue #13 - August/September 2006 Bridge, a grown-up version of Photoshop's File Browser, is a valuable tool for InDesign users. These 10 -- OK, 11 -- tips will make you a Bridge wizard. INX goes way beyond backward compatibility with InDesign CS. It can solve major InDesign problems for you in a flash. Review of StyleFlocker, a free plug-in that helps you manage character, paragraph, and object styles. Reviews and free sample chapters of three books. XML Part 2: How to get XML out of InDesign and repurpose it for other media. World Languages Part 3: How to work with Middle Eastern languages. Q&As on snagging images from Word files, converting particular hyphens to en dashes, and a continuation of last issue's stroked text answer. Reviews of eight apps that impose Acrobat files. Feast your eyes on projects for Williams-Sonoma and other clients of Weldon Owen Publishing. Michael Brady reveals his best practices, which free him from the mundane so he can concentrate on designing. Quick takes on new and upgraded products. Download   file size = 12MB

Issue #12 - June/July 2006 XML Part 1: Find out if XML is right for you, then learn the best ways to import it into InDesign. World Languages Part 2: Import and typeset Asian languages. Add movies to your InDesign documents. Yep, movies! [Note: To properly view these movies if you run Mac OS X 10.4 or later, update to Acrobat 7.0.5 or later.] Q&As on setting output resolution, avoiding RGB errors, applying rounded strokes to text, and rotating multiple drop shadows. Reviews of three commercial cropmark plug-ins and one free script. Review of Layer Groups, a plug-in that corrals InDesign layers. Master everything from a simple bullet list to the most complex table. Meet the designer responsible for Trek Travel, a bicycle-based vacation company. Introducing "How I Do It," a new column that explores one person's best practices. Quick takes on new and upgraded products. Download   file size = 19MB

Issue #11 - April/May 2006 Typesetting rules and best practices Incorporating languages other than English in your documents A how-to on Data Merge, the best friend you didn't know you already had A how-to on centering objects on a page Interviews with three of InDesign's primary software architects Q&As on overprinting black in placed Illustrator files, disappearing text frame edges, and more Review of InEventScript Review of Contact Sheet Pro An interview with and many samples from the ad agency behind Starbucks and Nike Quick takes on new and upgraded products Download   file size = 14MB

Issue #9 - December 2005/January 2006 Adobe InCopy InDepth: Leave Editing to the Editors Tired of being editors' monkey? Anne-Marie Concepcion explains how you never have to do their bidding again. InDepth: Turn the Tables Tables don't have to be a chore. Keith Gilbert hands you shortcuts, scripts and plug-ins to take away the tedium. InDepth: InDesign Server Find out why Max Dunn calls this new addition to the InDesign family the best thing since Gutenberg. Step-by-step how-to: Set Type Well While InDesign sets good type by default, Rufus Deuchler shows you how to make your type look even better. Step-by-step how-to: Fade an Item's Edge David Blatner walks you through the process of fading just a portion of an image or text. It's easier than you'd expect?all you need are Feather and nests. Q&A In this issue, Sandee Cohen answers readers' questions about endnotes, footnotes, fonts with no character, default fonts, master page items, and more. InDesigner: McDonald's Moving a company as huge as McDonald's to a new operating system and page-layout program is not something you just jump into on a whim. John Cruise looks at how the designers met the challenge and what they're creating now. Reviews: Cross-reference Tools Creating cross references in large documents is no picnic. Sandee Cohen ditches her manual method and tries two software solutions. Review: X-ray Reveals All InDesign has a LOT of palettes. For those of us with smaller screens, it can be hard to see the actual page. Can X-ray, a plug-in that lets you make palettes partially transparent, solve the problem? Jeff Gamet reports. InBrief: Helpful Products Jeff Gamet introduces products that convert Quark files, manage fonts, create barcodes three ways, count text, paste smartly, and more. Bookshelf: Book Design Michael Brady reviews three tomes that belong on a book designer's shelf. Plus news, upcoming events, and info on InDesign User Groups! Download   file size = 14MB

Issue #8 - October/November 2005 Sans Serif Typefaces: They're not just for business cards and phone books! Type expert John D. Berry uses lots of visual aids in explaining what makes a great sans serif and how to use them. Make a Magnifying Text Frame: David Blatner shows you the cool and easy effects that are possible when you make a text frame remember its scaling. Drop Anchor: Pariah S. Burke steers you through the uncharted waters of InDesign CS2's anchored objects. Tables Break Boundaries: These are no ugly spreadsheets. See how tables that don't look like tables can overcome many layout challenges. Renewing a Newspaper: The small-town "Kitsap Sun" goes from clunky to credible when it switches to InDesign. InPerson: Thomas Nielsen: InDesign's director of engineering talks about the future. InReview: PatternMaker, PatternPack, and Cross-Talk: Get the skinny on an app that lets you gorge on gorgeous patterns. Or check out a plug-in that integrates InCopy more easily into your workflow. Easy Scripts You Already Own: Take the pain -- and price -- out of InDesign scripting. Scripting maven Cari Jansen tells you how to find and customize free scripts. Lots More: Sandee Cohen answers your InDesign questions, John Cruise reveals what happened when the "Chicago Tribune" switched to InDesign, and Jeff Gamet briefs you on new and updated products. Plus, news on recent and upcoming events, and info on joining your local InDesign User Group. Download   file size = 14MB

Issue #7 - August/September 2005 Tips of the Trade: InDesign experts spill the beans and share their favorite tips for working with type, graphics, tools, documents, and colors. It's 27 pages (27!) of tips and tricks goodness. And Even More Tips: Sandee Cohen wouldn't stop answering your questions just because there's a big tips article in the same issue. This time, she tackles the quickest way to count words, the best way to center text on a circle, and how to format text with the Eyedropper tool. Mission Not Impossible: Take a word. Insert an image. Apply a gradient to it all. Then edit the text. You can do it, and we show you how. Thomas Phinney, Font Scientist: Want to know what this Adobe insider says about the past and future of type? You'll have to read the interview. Peer Review: Take a peek at the portfolio of Rob Day, co-founder of Evansday Design. Is That Plug-In Worth Paying For? Brian Lawler tested three imposition plug-ins (one is free, one is $99, and one is $399). See which one he recommends for you. Get Up to Speed: Hear what's new or improved in the plug-in world. Plus news, an events calendar, and an index of the first year of InDesign Magazine. Download   file size = 13MB

Issue #6 - June/July 2005 Get Better Color: Had enough of unpleasant color surprises? Read this article and take control of color. Be a Production Hero without Breaking a Sweat: Use the Preflight command already built into InDesign and say good-bye to botched print jobs. Layer It On Thick: InDesign CS2 now recognizes Photoshop's layers and layer comps. Here's how to go crazy with the possibilities, whether you're expanding your creativity or enhancing your efficiency. Speed Up Change: Change may be good, but InDesign's Find/Change is better. Use it to format long documents in a flash. Microsoft Game Studios: No, the games aren't created in InDesign -- all related print material is. See the gorgeous results. Must-have Plug-In: If you format tables, read this review NOW. The Best Font Manager: Expert buying advice from a font-management veteran. Plus pages of tips, tricks, news, and upcoming events! Download   file size = 12MB

Issue #5 - April/May 2005 Breaking News: InDesign CS2 Announced! We've got the details. Exploring InCopy CS2: What's New, What's Hot Uncovering Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, and the new Bridge application Laying Out Footnotes: Easy in CS and Easier in CS2 Blending Colors: Cool Effects with Transparency Blending Modes Scripting InDesign: Adobe's New Extendscript Utility Jumping into InDesign with Designer Luca Pianigiani Tracking History and Tags: Must-Have Plug-ins Creating a Photo Contact Sheet in Six Easy Steps Plus reviews, interviews, news, how-to's, and enough tips and tricks to make you jump for joy! Download   file size = 10MB

Issue #10 - February/March 2006 Little-known InDesign features that improve your productivity Easy ways to streamline your workflow so you have more time for the important stuff -- like design A how-to on creating a realistic spotlight that draws all eyes to your work A how-to on skewing type on a path Review of Q2ID, a top-notch converter of QuarkXPress files Review of TypeFitter, a plug-in that's even better than the built-in Paragraph Composer An interview with and many samples from two successful book-cover designers Problem-solving from industry expert Sandee Cohen Quick takes on new and upgraded products A look at the new Macs with Intel inside -- and the facts on whether you should run InDesign CS2 on them Download   file size = 12MB

Issue #4 - February/March 2005 Breaking News: Get a sneak peek at the future of InDesign Converting Quark Files: Turn XPress docs into InDesign templates Compositing Images: What InDesign does better than Photoshop Creating Interactive PDFs: Liven up static pages with InDesign's buttons and movies Groking Glyphs: Delve into the secrets of the Glyph palette Scripting InDesign: Discover InDesign's AppleScript dictionary Exploring OpenType: Check out contextual alternates Designing "Zembla": Vince Frost cuts the edge with this literary magazine Plus plug-in reviews, interviews, news, how-to's, and enough tips and tricks to make your head spin! Download   file size = 10MB

Issue #3 - December 2004/January 2005 Breaking News: Read about Adobe Acrobat 7 and InDesign Managing Fonts: Make InDesign access the fonts you want Understanding Overprinting: Avoid common mistakes Following Pathfinder: Break a graphic in two Simplifying Compound Paths: Mask type with panache Styling Type: Make an impact with cinematic styles Scripting InDesign: Create a JavaScript that works on both Mac and Windows Designing "Marie Claire": See how this InDesign-ed magazine makes its fashionable layouts Plus plug-in reviews, interviews, news, how-to's, and enough tips and tricks to make your head spin! Here is the URL to the script covered in this issue: http://downloads.indesignmag.com/scripts/IDM3scripts.zip Download   file size = 11MB

Issue #2 - October/November 2004 A sneak peek from Adobe at what's coming in InDesign's future How to build headings that straddle multi-column text frames An in-depth guide to creating press-ready PDF files from InDesign The secret "easter egg" that uncovers the InDesign martian A hands-on lesson for using InDesign's coolest (and most hidden) feature, Nested Styles How to build a simple script to copy and paste data in tables Tour-de-force layouts from InDesigners Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich and Matteo Bologna Plus much more by writers David Blatner, Sandee Cohen, and power-scripter Shane Stanley! Download   file size = 7.6MB

Premiere Issue - Summer 2004 Transparency: An "InDepth" look at what you need to know Step-by-Step: How to build a high-quality varnish plate in InDesign Text wrap: Tips, tricks, and tasty techniques Scripting: You Don't Have to Write Scripts to Use Scripts Up Close with Adobe's Will Eisley Review: Kerning and Tracking Plug-ins Review: ALAP InEffects Review: InDesign CS training on CD InDesign news briefs, events and more... Acrobat Reader 6 is recommended for viewing this PDF file. Download   FREE DOWNLOAD file size = 8.8MB