DesignGeek Archives
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DesignGeek #76 • 6/11/09
Interview with Adobe's Michael Ninness • Pick-and-place XML for Catalog Production
• My Secret Search Shortcuts for the New Adobe Forums • First Come First Served: Facebook Usernames • Discount Code for my InDesign Seminars
DesignGeek #75 • 5/14/09
InDesign Troubleshooting and Repair Webinar Next Week • Adobe's Answer to the App Store, Sorta • Make Illustrator CS4 Artboards Backwards-Compatible • Goodbye FTP, Hello Dropbox
DesignGeek #74 • 2/27/09
Pres. Obama's PDF Team Could Use Some Help • Force the Search Panel to Open in a PDF Automatically • Last Day to Save $200 on Adobe CS4 • Handy Em Chart for Web Designers
DesignGeek #73 • 2/05/09
InDesign to iPhone via ePub • Obama Poster-ize Yourself • Clean Up Dupes in Lists Fast
• Follow Me on Twitter
DesignGeek #72 • 12/31/08
Adobe CS4 Extravaganza • My Lynda.com CS4 Videos • All-Day Seminars • CreativePro.com column • InDesignSecrets.com news • Online Training in Our Virtual Classroom
DesignGeek #71 • 5/15/08
Photoshop Arrows • Website Content Thieves • DesignGeek Webinars
DesignGeek #70 • 3/25/08
Potpourri! Including: X-Scope • Textbook publishing • HyperCard • HerGeekness column
• iPhone simulator • Lightbeam brushes • Parallels • Flattening script • Blogs I read
• Fair use video
DesignGeek #69 • 2/22/08
Ensure PDF Text Box Comments are Printed • Illustrator Outline/Preview Tricks
• VectorMagic.com Goes Live • My Upcoming Seminars
DesignGeek #68 • 1/15/08
Group Across Layers in Illustrator • Photoshop Canvas Size Gripe and Fix • Export InDesign CS2/CS3 to HTML • Add Formatted Text to PDFs on the Fly
DesignGeek #67 • 11/30/07
Fast Finds with Adobe Bridge • Keywords in OS X and Windows • Preflighting HTML E-mail
DesignGeek #66 • 10/12/07
My Top Ten Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts • Fun with Illustrator Patterns, Part 2 • One More YouTube!
DesignGeek #65 • 9/17/07
Fun with Illustrator Patterns, Part 1 • Degunkifying Word Files • YouTubes for DesignGeeks
DesignGeek #64 • 7/27/07
Artist Forgot to Include a Bleed? • Add Columns of Numbers in QXP/ID • Last Chance for my 2-day ID CS3 Expert Class • Speaking of Bleeds ... The Game!
DesignGeek #63 • 5/30/07
Drag from Bridge to QuarkXPress • MacBook Warning • My Lynda.com IC/ID Video Training is Live • Removing Hyperlinks from Word Files (a Quickie)
DesignGeek #62 • 4/25/07
Pimp My CS3 • Faster Searching in Big PDFs • See Me, Hear Me (CS3 Video Workshop)
DesignGeek #61 • 3/30/07
Buried Treasure on Quark.com • Adobe Creative Suite 3 Info • InCopy CS3 and InCopyFlow
E-zine
DesignGeek #60 • 2/7/07
Free Software at Adobe Labs • Super Bowl Ads • How to Crop a Raster in Illustrator
DesignGeek #59 • 11/28/06
The Freebies Issue! • InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster, now shipping
DesignGeek #58 • 11/14/06
Raster Resolution Tips in Illustrator • Acrobat 8 Converts Plain PDFs to Forms • InDesign's Hidden "Save for Web"
DesignGeek #57 • 9/27/06
More "Telling" Interview Questions from Readers • OS X: Add a Shortcut to Solve Window Madness • Mastering Illustrator's Gradient Mesh • My InCopy Seminar is Now Online
DesignGeek #56 • 9/14/06
Tips for Managing Web Color in Photoshop • Cool Technique: Self-Contained InDesign Files
• Who Should Not Upgrade to QuarkXPress 7.01 • Key Questions to Ask Designers Applying
for a Job
DesignGeek #55 • 7/27/06
The Six Patron Saints of Graphic Design • Saving PDF Form Data with Reader • Quark Coughs Up a Real Tryout
DesignGeek #54 • 6/27/06
InDesign/InCopy 4.03 Patch Released • Using CSS in HTML E-Mails • Quark's Own Blog • My Recent InDesign Tips
DesignGeek #53 • 5/24/06
InDesignSecrets is Now Live • What's Different About this File? • Fastest Way to Translate a Web Page
DesignGeek #52 • 4/12/06
The Logos of Web 2.0 • Tritones from Grayscales in QuarkXPress 7 • My Adobe CS2 Webinars are Up • Illustrator CS2's Gray Box from Hell
DesignGeek #51 • 3/15/06
New Source for Adobe Bridge Tips • Use Flickr for Off-Site Image Archiving • Find Fonts Used in InDesign Style Sheets • Come to My InCopy/InDesign Workshop in May
DesignGeek #50 • 2/8/06
New Info on Cleaning Up OS X Fonts • Quickly Find Specialty Typefaces • Sign Up for my Adobe CS2 Webinar on Bridge
DesignGeek #49 • 1/25/06
Cool Tool for Previewing Web Fonts • Nested Styles Tips in InDesign • Take Quark 7 Out for a Spin, Free • InDesign Podcast: Join the Fun!
DesignGeek #48 • 12/21/05
QuarkXPress 6.5 Output Guide • Overprinting Black in Photoshop • Find and View Illustrator Freebies
DesignGeek #47 • 12/5/05
InDesign Secrets Podcast • Photoshop CS2 Layer Tips • New Resources for InCopy Users and Wannabes • Ton of New Content on DesignGeek Central
DesignGeek #46 • 10/19/05
Global Colors, Gradients and Patterns in Illustrator • Speed up Photoshop CS2 with Bigger Tiles • Design-y Podcasts for DesignGeeks • Ole Kvern at the AppleScript Pro Sessions
DesignGeek #45 • 10/4/05
Adobe CS2 Bridge Tricks for Designers • InDesign and InCopy CS2 Patches Released • New Font Utilities for Mac OS X (and soon, Windows)
DesignGeek #44 • 9/20/05
Synchronized Text in InDesign • Creative Suite Conference Discount • AppleScript Pro Sessions Discount
DesignGeek #43 • 8/23/05
Second Occasional Bookmark Issue: Color Palette Generator; Photoshop, Illustrator and CSS Cheat Sheets; Milton Glaser movie, many more gems
DesignGeek #42 • 8/10/05
Acrobat's Own Special Browser: The Organizer
DesignGeek #41 • 7/27/05
Web Design Tricks in the Creative Suite: Flash from Illustrator • Vector Animations in Photoshop and ImageReady • Capture Web Sites as PDFs in Acrobat • Find Out More
DesignGeek #40 • 6/16/05
XML Info for InDesign CS2 • InDesign Breakthroughs News
DesignGeek #39 • 6/7/05
Dashboard Widgets for Designers • Windows Font Management • DIY Open Type Conversions
DesignGeek #38 • 5/18/05
My new InDesign Book is Done! InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, with David Blatner (Peachpit Press, June 2005)
DesignGeek #37 • 3/30/05
Vector EPS Preview Fix for InDesign • Bad PDFs from Quark? Remove the OPI XT • HerGeekness Speaks: Upcoming Appearances
DesignGeek #36 • 3/14/05
Two Cool Tools for Web Site Marketers • 2005 InDesign Conference Coming Up • First-Ever Creative Suite Conference
DesignGeek #35 • 2/22/05
Find/Change in InDesign Style Sheets • Illustrator's "Flatten This Transparency Now" • Better InCopy Galley/Story View Font
DesignGeek #34 • 1/26/05
QuarkXPress 6.5's PSD Import XT Tips • Designing on a Laptop? Keyboard Tips • Photoshop File Browser Tweak Pt. 2: Favorite Folders
DesignGeek #33 • 1/6/05
Introducing DesignGeek Central • Photoshop File Browser Tweak Pt. 1: Toggle File Browser
DesignGeek #32 • 11/23/04
First Occasional Bookmark Issue: a free, awarding-winning typeface, the Computer Jargon test, article on The Worst Interface Ever, InDesign tips in French, Adobe vs. WindowsXP SP2 tech note, and more
DesignGeek #31 • 11/2/04
Edit Font Suitcases in Mac OS X • InDesign CS's Auto-Trapping • QuarkXPress 6.5 Installation Report
DesignGeek #30 • 10/20/04
Underlines in Illustrator • Hidden InDesign Shortcuts • UberGeek Site
DesignGeek #29 • 10/5/04
Creating Scaled PDFs Outside Acrobat
DesignGeek #28 • 9/14/04
InCopy CS Info and Tips • Mac Users Dissed in HTML Comments! • Simpler Handling of MS Word Art
DesignGeek #27 • 8/31/04
Lock QuarkXPress Master Pages • Dealing with Artwork in MS Word Files • DeGeekify Yourself with Letterpress
DesignGeek #26 • 8/19/04
Find Differences in Any Two Documents • 14 InDesign Features Sitting in Your CD Case • Updated Apple Docs for Designers on OS X
DesignGeek #25 • 7/26/04
Pixel Fonts for the Web and Flash • Editorium: DesignGeek for Editors • Scaling Photoshop Layer Effect
DesignGeek #24 • 7/7/04
Free History Menu for InDesign • Why Photoshop PDFs Rule • Quark Lowers Prices • Last Chance to Register for the Adobe Conference
DesignGeek #23 • 6/29/04
Adobe Publishing Conference with HerGeekness • Update PDFs without Losing Links • Text Frame Threading Tricks in InDesign
DesignGeek #22 • 6/16/04
Favorite InDesign Student Tips • Quark Forums Re-Open • Photoshop Fix Newsletter feat. HerGeekness
DesignGeek #21 • 5/27/04
Quark 6.1 Projects vs. Layouts • InDesign CS Easter Eggs • New Panther is Available (10.3.4) • Great PostScript Error Reference
DesignGeek #20 • 5/12/04
One Big Tip: Multiple-page PDFs from Illustrator • And Four Little Tips: Concentrating Point Type in Illustrator, Quark Listserve Moves to a New Address, Two Great Services for Web Designers, Download My InDesign Style Sheet Power Tips
DesignGeek #19 • 4/26/04
Centering Yourself: Tips for Creating Precise Guidelines in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress
DesignGeek #18 • 3/24/04
Excel Tables in Quark 6.1 • Guide to Adobe CS's Free Fonts
DesignGeek #17 • 3/11/04
Reducing Bloated Illustrator Files • Google Secrets for Site Owners • Perfect Path Text in Quark and InDesign
DesignGeek #16 • 2/19/04
Make a Quality PDF Without Owning Acrobat • Quark 6.1 (Yes, 6.1) Easter Eggs • Add Your (Vector) Logo to a Photoshop Menu
DesignGeek #15 • 2/11/04
Quark 6.1? Not Yet, But Other News • Printing Fix for InDesign Spool-itis • Cool Color Pickers for Mac/Windows • Photoshop Pasting Without a New Layer
DesignGeek #14 • 1/29/04
Dealing with New Font Formats • Search Engine Optimizing • InDesign Tip Called "Brilliant!" by Sir David Blatner • Found: Quark/Windows En Dash Keystroke
DesignGeek #13 • 1/14/04
Acrobat 6 Discoveries • AdobeCS in the Real World • Special Character Shortcuts in Windows • Printing Finder Windows in OS X
DesignGeek #12 • 12/17/03
Dragging Drop Shadowns in Photoshop • A Fix for Finicky HTML Tables • Photoshop 7 Batch Renaming Tip • Table Cell Navigation in Quark and InDesign • Just for Fun: Really Great Links
DesignGeek #11 • 12/03/03
Amazing Printing Trick in OS X • Quark 6.1 Announced • Printing InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts
DesignGeek #10 • 11/17/03
Illustrator Eyedropper and Collect for Output • Embedding Fonts in Web Pages • Swatch Import Tricks with InDesign • Unheralded New Panther Feature
DesignGeek #09 • 11/3/03
InDesign's "Other" Paste in Place • Quark 6 Fixes and Support Update
DesignGeek #08 • 10/14/03
OS X Transition: Seminar Report and Some Tips • Purchasing Panther (OS X 10.3) for Less • Couldn't Care Less about OS X?
DesignGeek #07 • 9/23/03
It's Official: Quark's 2nd-Computer License • Revealing Embedded Object Info in Illustrator • InDesign's Hidden Porportional Scale Command
DesignGeek #06 • 9/2/03
Hiding Your E-mail Address on Web Pages or, THE CURSE OF THE LIVING SPAMBOT
DesignGeek #05 • 8/19/03
Adjustment Fills in Photoshop
DesignGeek #04 • 8/5/03
QuarkXPress 6.0 Tips and Support Sources
DesignGeek #03 • 7/21/03
Web Design: Image Border Tricks • OS X Tips for Navigating Column Views
DesignGeek #02 • 7/7/03
Facing Off with Facing Pages: QuarkXPress, InDesign
DesignGeek #01 • 6/23/03
Photoshop 7 Text Formatting • Identifying Mystery Fonts Online
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