Trips and tricks for designers using Adobe InDesign
Placed an Illustrator vector into InDesign only to find half of it cropped off? Scaling the frame won't reveal the missing graphics. Learn why this artboard issue happens and how to fix it in under 2 minutes!
Opening Adobe InDesign for the first time can feel incredibly overwhelming, but mastering the basics doesn’t have to be a headache. In this complete beginner’s guide, we use a work-in-progress poster layout to break down the essential workspace tools you actually need to know. From handling text boxes and styling fonts to perfectly scaling graphics without distorting them, these quick...
Noticed a mysterious "T" icon on your InDesign images? Adobe’s new AI alt-text feature is officially here, but it’s causing a major headache for designers: unwanted "AI-generated" tooltips in Acrobat. Learn how to reclaim your professional reputation, disable the automation, and keep your PDFs accessible without the digital clutter.
Stuck with an unclickable element in InDesign? Whether you're a new graphic designer or a web dev, learn how to troubleshoot "locked" objects by mastering the logic of Linked Assets and Parent Pages.
You can now open and edit PDFs directly in InDesign 2026 without a single extra subscription. It’s a massive "YAY" for designers, but it’s not foolproof. Discover what survives the conversion and what you'll have to rebuild from scratch.
What's the best settings to use when aligning your text to the left in InDesign? Well that depends on your goals. Here are a few options. Watch or read below.
Learn how to automate superscripting the letter portion of 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc in your InDesign document using Find/Change and GREP.
Threading text frames link multiple text frames, so the text flows from box to box. In the case of multiple-page documents, especially long books, changing the order of pages can become complicated. A helpful trick is to turn on Show Text Threads so that you can see how your text boxes are connected page-to-page. Here's how to do it.
As a designer working in print publications, getting your quote marks correct is imperative for good typography. As a rule of thumb, in your print graphic designs, you always want to use the typographer’s quote, or the curly quote. Here's how to ensure you’re using the right quote marks in Adobe InDesign.
I recently exported an EPUB document from InDesign only to discover that the exported ePUB book displayed backward. Here’s how to fix this technical backward EPUB issue. The exported ebook is over 700 pages and includes dozens of embedded videos and dozens of audio clips. Most importantly, this book requires a fixed layout. I’m an Apple-based designer, so my InDesign exported ebooks...
