Episode 289
Podcast 289
• Illustrator and InDesign
• Obscure Feature: Crop to Art
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- News
- Last chance for live tickets to the InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021
- if you’re a nonprofit, government agency, student, or work for a school, contact events@creativepro.com for a $100 discount code
- The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27: https://development.creativepro.com/adobe-illustrator-summit/
- InDesign Magazine for July 2021 is Illustrator and InDesign; August 2021 is on creating social media artwork and making dielines for print packaging
- Last chance for live tickets to the InDesign + Type Summit (online event) July 29–30, 2021
- Best practices for working with Illustrator documents in InDesign
- Keyboard shortcut of the month: Capital E (yes, Shift-E)
- Obscure InDesign Feature: Crop to Art
Sponsors for this episode:
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>> Ajar Productions is the developer of the phenomenal in5 add-on for Adobe InDesign, which lets you export interactivity from InDesign to different formats, that actually work. in5 supports all of InDesign’s native interactivity—like animation, buttons, object states, audio and video; and adds its own. Create websites, digital magazines, mobile apps, animated banners and presentations, by simply using InDesign, no coding involved! Learn more and download a free trial of in5 at in5.us.
Links mentioned in this podcast:
- The Adobe Illustrator Summit, August 26-27
- The InDesign + Type Summit, July 29-30
- KidPix still lives! https://www.mackiev.com/kidpix/
- How to Replace AI art with SVG for sharp web graphics, from Anne-Marie’s weekly series “InDesign Tips for Design Geeks“
- We have lots of articles about using InDesign and Illustrator together:
- https://development.creativepro.com/copy-vectors-from-illustrator-to-indesign-or-vice-versa/
- https://development.creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-getting-the-most-the-interface/
- https://development.creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-vectors/
- https://development.creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-linking-and-embedding-files/
- https://development.creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-moving-text-between-the-programs/
- https://development.creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-colors-and-swatches/
- https://development.creativepro.com/using-indesign-illustrator-and-photoshop-together-the-pen-tool/
- Shift-E… Preview on CPU vs GPU: https://development.creativepro.com/gpu-support-and-animated-zoom-arrives-for-mac/
- Understanding InDesign’s Place PDF Options: https://development.creativepro.com/understanding-indesigns-place-pdf-options/
- InDesignSecrets…
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