InDesign, the world’s leading page layout software, is packed with features. Still, Adobe keeps adding new functionality at blazing speeds. In this User Group meeting, we look at some of the recently added features and how to get the best out of them. Don’t worry if you’re new to InDesign, as we’ll start with a brief InDesign “Instant 101” to familiarize ourselves with the user interface and basic techniques. The Zoom-based presentation will be open for Q&A as time permits.
Recording of February 11, 2021 Austin Adobe User Group meeting on Zoom.
- Tom Berglie is an Adobe Certified Instructor with more than 25 years’ experience in the publishing business, as a graphic designer, writer, and photographer. He’s been teaching Adobe software including InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat for more than a decade and is also an experienced textbook author and translator. Tom relocated from Norway to Texas in 2014 and is now running his own design and teaching business, B-learning Live, out of Austin, along with a full-time engagement as a software translator.
Some notes from the meeting recorded by Sherry Chau:
- Fasted way to Select is use Selection Tool to Double Click on the Text Frame
- Cmd W close document
- Cmd S save document
- Shift Cmd Option Show Set
- Book recommendation: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A Norman
- to empty your stroke or fill, make sure to choose the pages, not just view them. I make that mistake ALL THE TIME
- You can save Workspaces, even settings for individual, File > Preferences > File Handling
- Font Auto Activation
- Share for Review – Create button – You don’t have to be logged into your account, and not supposed to be if you want to view it either
- Context Aware Text Wrap
- Double Click an Image (select image inside the frame)
- Find Change in Dialogue Box
