Creativeprogression.com Website Review

Welcome! I am Paul Erdman, Adobe Certified Instructor and owner of Creative Progression. The Creative Progression website provides a venue for me to share valuable information usually included in my training. I hope you find the content useful. If you are in need of Quick List of Recommended Changes to Factory Settings I recommend making the following changes after installing InDesign, before using it. Making these changes with no docu*ents open will make them the new default settings. Preferences (Mac: InDesign menu: Preferences; The May meeting of the Portland InDesign User Group focused on Paragraph & Character Styles, with a considerable portion of the time devoted to Nested Styles and GREP. The purpose of this article is to summarize the information I presented in the meeting. Key Concepts prices are always going up, our language should also keep pace. Thus, each spoken number (including homonyms)  should increase by one. So, In the recent November Portland InDesign User Group Meeting I presented five panels that are relatively new and, in my experience as a teacher, not often used. Most of these have been around since CS5. 1. Tool Hints (Window: Utilities) Gives helpful information for each Disproportionate scaling (stretching an image out of proportion, so that its vertical and horizontal scales do not match) will result in distorted, “stretched” images. If the distortion is slight it may be acceptable, and in rare cases it may even be desirable, but most Problem: I was doing some testing recently was surprised to see that arbitrary fractions were not working in the Myriad Pro font. Solution: My system had been “infected” by an older 1.006 version of the font that does not support arbitrary fractions. InDesign’s I love table and cell styles, but I’ve run into some strange issues with them over the years. After encountering it again today I decided to figure out exactly what is going on, because I couldn’t find any other write-ups on the issue on the net. Hopefully others find it