Mike Rankin

Free script enables you to preserve bold, italics, and other character formatting in comments you import from Adobe Acrobat

This script can save you a huge amount of time and aggravation when opening InDesign files with missing fonts.

How to use objects styles that make it easy to spot images that need work

Using InDesign’s nested styles you can see at a glance the word or character counts in every paragraph.

Use these shortcuts to make things go faster and easier in Adobe Illustrator.

Illustrator has a built-in shortcut to switch between composition methods, an idea worth copying in InDesign.

Copy and paste InDesign table content with the help of two obscure commands.

Instantly align an image in a frame to any of the 9 reference points with the help of a free InDesign script.

At least two significant new bugs are being reported by users who have updated to the the March 2022 release of InDesign (17.2)

You can banish incomplete italics fast with Find/Change and the clever use of a non-joiner.

This free script solves the problem of sloppy-looking corners when you use dashed strokes in Photoshop

Learn the “one weird trick” for getting CC library Illustrator graphics to come in with transparent backgrounds.

Instantly populate list boxes and combo boxes in InDesign with the help of this free script

Learn how to customize InDesign’s Pages panel with descriptive prefixes and color labels to make it easier to tell pages apart in a long document.

This article appeared in Issue 5 of CreativePro Magazine. After spending a good chunk of my career teaching folks how to use Adobe software, it might seem strange that I’m writing an article talking about how to not use it. But to be clear: I like Adobe’s software! I just don’t think it’s the right…

Two methods for signing and dating any PDF with Adobe Acrobat

A simple trick lets you add spot color swatches in InDesign without subscribing to the paid version of Pantone Connect.

Learn an easy way to find which files are using the soon-to-be-discontinued Type1 PostScript fonts.

Learn where you can go to customize the date format InDesign uses for Static and Live Captions.

Learn the simple trick for pasting tabular data from Microsoft Office apps into InDesign.