Hey there, this is a bonus video that I've made so I can share with you
the latest updates that have come out in
InDesign since the original recording of this course.
Adobe are constantly updating the software,
so I thought this would be a handy way to keep you super up to date.
Now, I'll go through all of the features and put them
in what I think is the most important,
to the more obscure ones towards the end of this video.
I'm going to stop talking and I'm going to start showing you the new features.
First up, if you are playing along and you've downloaded the exercise files,
open up the newsletter.
It's the only file you can open.
Let's talk about the very first feature, and it's unavoidable.
It's this properties panel.
It's the talk of the InDesign town.
Either love it or you hate it.
I'm in the love it.
I'm going to try and convince you the same,
but I'll show you how to turn it off.
Basically, it's the same panel that's been in illustrator for a little while,
and Photoshop just got at this version.
It's contextually sensitive, which is quite cool so,
I've got the background selected, nothing.
Selected gives me options to change the height and the width and all that good stuff.
But when I end up clicking on this image here,
I've got image options,
text wrap, frame fitting.
All that stuff that you end up with a bunch of panels will
open if you need to text wrap is this giant one, it's always in the way.
The close of the roll-up and what they've done is this little dot, in the corner.
There is more. You can click on that and it expands out to be a bit fuller.
The one finding the most useful is things like
paragraph styles and character styles are fine.
It's that big group of panels that I have open always in the way.
With this selected here you can see it's got paragraph styles,
character styles got lovely little dropdown.
You can apply and do stuff.
I love it, but there's some things are going to be
a bit weird, you going to have to get used to it.
Like this image selected. You are like,
"the links panel, it's gone."
Instead of just going and opening it, which you can do,
just go back to the old school way and just have
a look at this quick actions and all these things they're quite good.
If want to replace to file here and put file placement image.
Super easy, super quick.
You'll find 90 percent of everything you need just over here in the Properties panel.
The one thing you might not be able to live with is,
I'm not sure if you've noticed it yet, but the control bar is gone.
There is the big bar on the top here.
This is the one where I'm like,
"I'm not sure I can live without this," missy ugly button on the top.
It's too handy.
I can see why they turned it off for people that are new, because man,
it is daunting and you can get a lot of the options over here.
But how about me and you just for this course,
we'll try and live without the control panel and we'll see where it folds down.
One little tip I just stumbled across was,
some of these icons you can click whilst holding down
the Option key on a Mac or the Alt key on a PC,
and it gives you more options.
Some of them don't work. If I hold the Option key down and my Mac,
Alt key on PC and click font size does nothing.
But I was working in here and I was, ooh.
I don't know how I stumbled across this,
but I was holding down the option key,
I clicked drop caps and it opens up that panel.
If you know that there's a panel that you can go into up here,
it's likely to be connected to the icon next to the feature here.
Does that makes? I had nothing selected.
The other one I found was new page, "new page!"
It's not what I wanted. I've undone.
I want to hold down the option key and click it and you get given a bit more,
you can pick master pages and numbers of pages, well, that stuff.
Some of them can be clicked, some of them can't.
If you're, "no, I am old school,
I can't live in this properties rows."
You can go up to essential and go back to essentials
classic and go back to the way it was in the last version.
Probably you've got your own layouts and things sit up anyway,
so you can jump back to that.
But for this class,
we're going essentials, we can give it a try.
Like I said, I've been using for a couple of weeks now,
I'm somewhere in the properties panel.
But like me, complain if there's things that are missing,
like I can't believe they removed that.
Adobe has few Google Adobe feature requests.
It starts off at this site, this wish form,
and you end up at this thing called user voice and that's
how people vote on features and get into the top of the list.
Some complaining, it's helpful criticism.
Alright. Next feature. This feature is called adjust layouts.
It's been over here, it's been staring at us and now brand
new properties panel and this is really amazing.
I do a lot of work across consonants.
In New Zealand where I'm from an Island where I live. Everything is A4.
A lot of work I do ends up being in the US and
for some banana reason we like to use different size bits of paper.
Let's say, I'm going to look at this top page up here.
What I want to do is currently,
you can see I've got nothing selected it's set to US letter.
I need to get it ready for Europe.
I need to go to A4 and you just end up with this.
It's my job to show you how it works.
You can see format issues,
just nothing lines up anymore.
Imagine if there was a button that you could click and say,
"I'd like you to be A4? "
We won't change anything else at the moment.
Let's just click okay and be ready to be amazed.
Cool, huh. Just went ahead and changed it.
I love that so much. Undo, redo.
Now, you might have noticed that this thing isn't working,
so it's a little bit of prep work or at least some best practices if
you work in a company where you know you
have to go through all these different file sizes.
We're doing a traditional print design.
But this might be landscape,
portrait designs for e-books or magazines,
digital magazines will publish online,
maybe banner ads [inaudible] formats.
I want to undo that.
Before I go and change my adjust layout,
I need to do some preventative maintenance.
This image selected, I'm going to say I would like you to
auto fit and I want you to be fit frame proportionately.
No, this one fit content proportionally.
I always get mixed up with these if you do too, happens to everybody.
Okay, so I'm telling it to auto fit and
fit content proportionately and now if I go and change it,
click on the background, just layout,
change to A4, get ready, it looks good.
Now, this is just a really simple page and you're, yes,
what happens when you've got lots of columns and text and things?
Let's have a look. I'm going to go back file rivet.
File rivet, if you don't know,
it goes back to the last time you hit save.
Okay, just a handy way of jumping back a few steps.
Let's look at this page more complex,
there's columns, there's margins, there's things.
Textboxes I do that all the time.
It's habit, I make sure that the textbox fits the edge
of the text and that's going to throw some problems.
Let's try it now and then I'll show you how to fix it.
Missing over set everything's wrong.
I'm going to undo and all you need to do is you probably spotted in the app.
But look at this, adjust font.
You can set minimum and maximum adjustments.
I haven't found that to be necessary at the moment for anything that I've worked on.
I'm going to make it A4 and I'm going to say,
okay, and look at that.
Before, after.
Just magic, the columns,
the gutters, everything just adjusts.
Now, what happened to the fonts?
You'd be like, because what was it before?
Let's have a look, undo.
This is when it's US letter.
Couple of things to look at.
This one here is 40 points and this one here is 10 points.
I'm going to turn it back, so now it's A4. Let's have a look.
40 ended up going down to 38.6.
Now, it really depends on brand guidelines and how specific you are.
If you are, "man, I can't deal with bits of fonts sizes."
You might have to go and adjust it now,
but it gets you close.
Let's look at the body copy here.
You can see it's gone from 10.0 to 10.1.
You might be horrified and you might be,
"there's no way we can live with 10.1 fonts."
I guess it depends. A lot of my smaller work,
I'm not going to worry about 10.1.
But if you're working with a larger business
and there's just lots of documents and it's going to cause it to trouble.
You could go and clear the overrides.
Well, just not adjust the font when you're adjusting the layout.
One last little thing is let's say you are not doing
that whole US to metric to imperial thing,
you're just doing design changes.
Let's say just you personally,
or the client comes back and says the margins are too tight.
We need to push them out.
There's just a lot of layout work you're going to have to do to fix that,
right? Let's do that.
Adjust lay out and then here,
I'm not going to change the page size,
I'm just going to play around with the margins.
I'm going to use the inside and the outside.
I'm going to bump it up some random measurement.
Actually random 30 millimeters.
You can just type in measurements if you're not sure how to do it and points.
I'm going to click okay. Keep an eye on like things like this.
This is one of the things I'm, "it's only a small thing" but watch.
Shuffled in, all the column's changed.
You can see here, man, just really good.
Even if you're not using it for full document changes,
super handy just for small like margin changes.
One last thing, I believe can be changed as well.
You come back and we need three milles for everything.
That's a believe typically in my part of the world.
I'm going to click okay and you'll see it just tucked it a little bit,
but it adjusted the image.
I need to do it a bit better.
Let's go back to old school six mille.
Keep an eye on this and the image down here.
Click okay. Just got bigger and it drove out the image.
The only thing you might have to check is luckily this image,
I think it's big enough or already being set to auto.
Remember when we did the auto up here,
this guy needs to be auto fit and next second option in.
Alright, let's auto adjust, that's my favorite.
We did properties first because we couldn't really ignore it,
but adjust layout was one of those life-changing features, in my opinion.
Anyway, let's look at the next life-changing feature in InDesign.
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Alright, back to the features and this one is a big one.
Imagine if there was a way you could send your PDF to a client,
they could add comments and that they come back into InDesign?
Not only would they just indicate where the changes were they'd actually update the text.
If that doesn't sound exciting view skip to the next feature.
But for me and a lot of people out there,
I know this is amazing.
We used to go to word and it was a workaround for it.
There's lots of plug-ins that try and do it.
But pro and InDesign can't do it by itself until now,
and the workflow is amazing.
Let me show you how the workflow goes.
I've done this for the client.
I've got to send it to the clients.
I'm going to go file, export.
It has to be a PDF for this to work and print all interactive it doesn't matter.
I'm just going to call it newsletter.
I'm going to click save,
and I'm going to leave everything set to the default.
I'm going to I click export.
It's obviously text. I know.
Oops. Alright, so now you're pretending to be the client or your boss,
or your studio manager or your account manager who does the mock-up on your work.
What they need to do is they need to use
Acrobat and they need to use these commenting option.
Commenting opens along the top here,
I'm using the latest version of Acrobat Pro and
basically most of these features work. Let's have a little look.
Let's just put in a little sticky note to say, "I hate this image."
I can't spell image of this.
Okay, so great feedback then.
Let's have a look at some of the texts,
where it gets really nice is when you've got like this,
I'm going to highlight this text and explain that I believe this is over set.
That's cool, you can underline stuff.
It's probably loads of bad spelling in here.
What I really like though,
is when you start doing stuff like this,
when you want to insert text and this is where it gets exciting.
Maybe just exciting for me,
maybe exciting for you too,
is Rosemary grows best in full sunshine. I don't know what I'm editing.
But inside there's a bit of texts that I've left out so my copyright,
well maybe my editor is adding things.
A mini version of InCopy if you've ever used that.
Let's going to go in there.
What else is handy?
I can delete stuff so I can say,
see this one here it says strike through text.
I'm just going to remove this.
It's obvious that needs to go.
You can draw on things,
you can pick a color. Maybe somebody we can draw on.
A supper mature stamps.
This last few don't come through to InDesign.
The handy didn't know if you've never used the thing
before so if you're working in a place where you need to do this,
you need to say, "I am approved," then you can do that.
There's loads of cool stamps in here.
I won't show them all but lots of dynamic ones to say this
has been approved by me at this time.
You can see it's actually a date and time has my name from my login.
But this stuff is good for PDS but doesn't come through to InDesign.
During shapes does adding attachments doesn't.
But enough of this, let's save it.
Save file. Jump it into InDesign,
and this is where the magic happens.
What you need to do is under window,
let's go to PDF commits and this little bar ends up and that's the little icon for it.
I'm going to import the comments from my newsletter in my exercise files, usually to PDF.
You ready for the magic? Look at that.
One thing it won't do is when I was first testing this I was in preview mode.
If you know Preview mode or a shortcut,
hit the "W" key on your keyboard or down here, you can turn it off.
To make sure you're not in preview.
You got to be in normal otherwise they don't appear. Let's have a look.
My very useful way,
I hate this image so I'm going to go through and switch it out.
File image placement, lovely.
I'm going to auto fit it proportionately.
I always get confused which one of these two to use.
Don't worry we are we going to look at another fancy way in a second.
That's done. I hate that image so I have done that one ticked it.
You can tick it or delete it,
click on it, it'll jump to it.
My approved is there but the stamp doesn't come through,
so I'm just going to get rid of that.
Now the stamp get rid of that.
Last we've got over see it.
Remember the highlighting, the highlighting appears, it isn't in print.
If I go back to preview.
There it appears. Totally right on it's totally opposite. Now I've done that one.
Now this is where it gets really cool.
Marking it up is one thing,
but actually adjusting ticks is where I find this thing super amazing.
This is all being strike through.
Remember, I continue to accept.
That's the wrong one. Did strike through down here as well so search is gone.
But look at this first paragraph really,
I don't know where I am heading.
Where's the one? Needs to go, here it is.
Click, just deleted the paragraph.
Lets return in there see if there might be some work flow you might have to work
out with your commenter or your editor and this one here as well.
We've done that one.
There it is. Let's add this. Where was it?
We might have to click it and see.
Accept. There it is.
I don't know what I'm adding there it is there.
You can just say it just adds it in.
If you're going to be like my editor,
Margaret, she does all of the ticks editing for me.
You might just delete this whole thing,
put extract through for that and add her own big chunk.
You'll need to work out a workflow that works right for you.
Anything else that's in there?
Yeah. Missing lines in their. Goodbye lines.
A couple of things you can do is instead of going through them one by one,
say you trust them completely,
you can just go up to here and say actually,
just apply all of them.
I've already gone through and applied them separately.
We can say delete them all, claps them all.
Tag them all up so we're nice and clean as you can see them.
This is the only other option is I'm going to undo.
You can just turn them off so you can't see them.
Just turn to hide comments on and off. Don't print.
So you can't just leave them on. But I love the workflow is super handy.
If not as good as if you liking then you're like, man,
I wish there was a more complicated, not complicated.
I wish it was more features to that then you might want it to look into InCopy.
Goes hand in hand with InDesign often.
What will happen is the designer will be using InDesign and
whoever is in charge of the copy-writing will be using InCopy.
Why do I have to separate ones?
Because ones are really focused on
ticks domains and you can do cool things where you lock
things like images and layouts and fonts choices to just a few little options.
The design gets to say you can do this much editor,
but not more and the editor gets a really purpose-built ticks editing software.
Onto the next feature it's called content aware fit.
We're going to close this down. Where are we going to do it?
We'll do it here.
I am on page 3, and what I want to do is continue with fit.
We've done auto fitting with images already remember this one up the top here.
What I want to do is show you that very new feature for fitting and it's pretty clever.
It's using some sort of Adobe Sensei,
machine learning AI, it's probably one of those things.
Let's bring in a bunch of images.
File and then to place can't help that shortcuts command D that I use.
Look, user properties panel.
Come on. I'm going to bring in an image.
I am going to bring in these three.
So shift click the top one and then the last one and you select all three.
Click "Open". I want all three of these images.
You can see if I use my right arrow key on my keyboard,
they were different, I picked images that had really different ratios and formats.
It's like a square one and a long thin one and a portrait one.
That's just my arrow keys on my keyboard.
I want to put them all down at the same time.
This is not the shortcuts by the way,
this is not the feature, at least.
This is just cool gratify,
and a lot of people don't know it.
If you hold down the command and shift key on
a Mac or control shift on a PC and drag out,
you can see get this grid of images.
I'm holding down the command shift on a Mac or a control shift on a PC.
The other little trick for this is you can use the arrow keys,
you can let go of control shift,
keep holding the mouse down.
You can use up to add more,
down to remove them.
Left, right.
Just to add.
You can use page up and page down,
will do the spaces in between them.
Anyway, we need three images.
I'm going to line them up here.
I go about that size.
Hey, that happens all the time.
Because nobody ever gets the perfect ratio images.
You end up doing things like this option you're like,
"Yeah, but you see this person at the top.
That one's not too bad". Lets have a look.
I'm going to do a couple options. I'm going to duplicate it.
Let's actually do it all over here, little bit of space.
This option, and I'll do this option and we'll do a third option.
That's how it came in. We're going to use
this first option and you can see it fills the image inside the frame,
which is cool, but it's done some weird stuff
with the people and I've got to go and amend it.
Imagine if there was a clever little button that looks like this,
that somehow went off and worked out clever things like where people's faces
where in compositions and 3-D takes a little while.
But look at that. This first one's not a big deal.
When I was practicing, it did make a big difference.
So I will try and break it and see if I can make a way.
But this one here is very clear.
It's gone through impact the hidden shoulders.
It's called Content Aware Fit and it's just very clever.
Lets see if I can break this one again.
Instead of using that ratio,
let's use something else.
Lets do a couple of options, different shapes.
One of them I did and it really looked good I'm trying to
prove to you that it works. Two options.
This top one here we're going to use L fit to
frame and then this one here we're going to go content aware.
Give it a second and take a little bit longer, it's analyzing stuff.
It's pretty high resolution images as well.
Its hides in it, it's not clipped off that's what I made before.
This one here is not too different a little bit,
not as big a gap at the top there.
Will this change my life forever?
No. But it's quite handy.
It's no adjust layout,
but it's definitely one of the more sexy things that have gone into InDesign,
AI, machine learning, Adobe Sensei.
But if you are dealing with Cardventure,
it's not going to do much.
I played around with this for quite a while to try and find good examples.
I tried to find maybe product shots what it did it well with.
It does really well with people.
It's major feature, anything else?
It's not perfect. But this is the first version of it.
I imagine if you're looking at this and it's a year from now,
it's the end of 2018, by the way,
you might be using it and it's just a phenomenally more better.
Those aren't really words, but you know what I mean.
It's going to get better and better.
Now, that's the default, that's the way default.
You can turn this on by default.
On a Mac, go to InDesign preferences, and go to general.
If you're on a PC, go to Edit,
right down here somewhere we is preferences and go to general. Where is it?
The bottom feature here make it the default. Now, I totally would.
It takes a little bit longer,
but it definitely gives you a better starting point than this original default.
But I've got to turn mine off because I'm a teacher and I
need mine to look like everyone else like this.
But if I wasn't, I'd be tuning it on. Thank you very much.
You go down here and let's get onto the next page up.
Next feature is secretly my most favorite,
but it's not very sexy and you can't really start a video with.
Let's look at this thing that's really just basic but really helpful.
That's number four on my list,
but you probably going to love this as much as I do.
Let's look at the problem it solves.
So bullet points. I'm going to make it a bullet point using our properties panel.
But I want the spacing between
just these bullets because it's using this spacing from the body copy,
I'm going to say actually, you guys can you just have a paragraph.
I don't know why paragraph I use quite a bit,
so I might have to have that panel open a bit because
clicking these little dotted lines is a bit of a pain.
But lets say I'm going to have it at say zero.
I just want them stuck underneath each other.
You see it a paragraph style for these bullets,
great, but then I want something different for the bottom ones.
So the last of the bullets needs another paragraph style that
does some spacing back to 10, same as the rest of it.
If you want some spacing above the bullet lists,
you're going to have to put in another paragraph style that does this.
You end up with three paragraphs styles to make a pretty simple bullet point list.
But now I'm going to undo loads.
The next feature with the new feature is the same thing, bullet points.
You're going to have to open up your paragraph panel,
and this is the new option.
Doesn't have a very good name,
space between paragraphs using same style and it's a little bit inception-y,
is very hard to explain.
Took me ages to get my head around it.
I'm going to try my best to explain it nicely for you.
But if you do find later on your own,
it's worth working out though.
What we're going to do is we're going to ignore this one.
What we're going to say is this thing here,
the space between paragraphs using the same style,
I would like this to be zero.
It's all stacked up nice to each other,
but you can see we get the gaps at the side.
What it's doing is it says,
as long as the style repeats,
so this one here,
actually, let's make it a style.
Doesn't actually have to be an official style,
just has to be different from the one above it.
I'm going to call this to make it clearer.
I've got bullets. Then this one here you can see is body copy.
What it's saying is, as long as bullets is followed by bullets,
i will be zero. Where is it? Is this one here.
This one here as well,
bullets followed bullets, so i will be zero.
This one here. Unless the style changes.
Bullets becomes body copy,
so what ends up happening is it uses this other option.
If bullets follows bullets, it's zero,
unless it's different and it's going to use this option.
I could grab all this side and I can increase it.
It doesn't have to be the same as body copy.
This is just do this unless the style changes,
then do this, do that help explain it?
That becomes the main when you use between styles, it's the hard core one,
and this is the option that only happens if the style changes.
I'm going to go back to 10 because that's what I wanted.
I rerecorded that a couple of times.
It was my best one.
I'm going to stop there because the next one might not be as clear.
Play with it because it is amazing, I think so.
Let's say this one here now, because I've spent the time doing this style.
I watch this 3D, bullets.
I'll get to that. One more thing I want to show you for good measure,
and it's not in the Properties panel,
this is like, "Okay,
I'm going to have to go back to the Control Panel."
I like it too much and I know where everything is.
Keep the properties awesome.
But I'm going to use the Control Panel if it ever opens.
What I'm looking for, if you don't know this one, get ready to be amazed.
This is not a new feature, it just happens to be awesome.
Make sure you are on your paragraph and down here there's Split 2.
Look at that. No crazy tabs panel,
just you can split it by three or two.
Mine doesn't fit. Three. It's too small.
Big of the idea. Why would they have a good measure?
You can say the same thing for this,
instead of splitting it, you can span,
I'm going to get it to span across all of them.
That can be handy for stuff.
Not really what I want here,
but a little bonus.
All right, next featured time.
This one's not as good looking as the other ones,
but for a few people this is going to be pretty useful.
I'm going to delete this. What I want to do is get
this table that I've got here into one column.
I have footnotes. Not a very exciting topic,
but fundamental to the Desktop Publishing game.
Let's say I want to add a footnote to this text here.
In earlier versions, 2018 and earlier,
you couldn't go up to Type and Add,
Insert footnote, this is just grayed out, wouldn't work in a table.
We can use the new Properties panel, getting used to it.
I can now insert footnotes into tables,
paste it in, and I've already added a style to it.
I'm going to add another one. Another one.
That's all I really need to show you really,
you just do footnotes in tables,
but it does segue into the next new feature in InDesign 2019.
Today I want to show you, let's add endnote.
Footnotes are the bottom of the page,
endnotes at the end of the document,
or at least your textbooks.
I'm going to insert one here, Endnote.
You can see it's just jumped all the way to the end of my text frame.
I'm going to add one more in there.
A new feature, it's quite handy,
is you can convert one to the other.
What I'm going to do is, I've got my cursor flashing
anywhere in the textbooks that you're working with,
it's a long linked textbooks, I'm going to say Type.
There's one here says convert footnotes to endnotes instead of them being up here.
Where are they? Right there.
I can say Type, convert to endnotes, please.
You can say footnotes or endnotes.
Scope, you can look through the whole document
or just the selection that you have selected.
I'm just going to do the whole document, found two of them.
Let's check it up. I'm not sure why I've got have to returning that.
You can go back the other way as well, which is cool,
the weird thing is it's in the same place,
so I wanted to end the endnotes back into footnotes,
so Type and you can see here there's no endnote to footnote,
there's lump them both together.
Even though I wanted the opposite of what this is, it doesn't really matter.
I can just switch it here. I go back to their home places.
Done. Endnotes are gone and you have get rid of that text, but hopefully now.
Here's my table. That one,
that one, they're all there on the page with a return.
Once I've finished this video I'll work out why.
But for the moment, you can do footnotes inside tables, yay.
You can convert endnotes to footnotes and footnotes to endnotes.
Where I find this most useful is when you're bringing in stuff from Word
and somebody's used endnotes in one document and footnotes in the other,
and you've got have a style guide to follow.
We need to switch them around, now you can.
Let's go to the next feature.
Now the next feature is not really a feature,
it's a missing thing. This is a test.
You need to tell me what is missing from what we're going to do now. Something's gone.
It's as Scooby Doo mystery.
You're part of it. I'm going to go and package my document.
I need to send it to a client or the printer,
we need to archive it.
File package, I'm going to go and click Package and I'm going to save it.
I'm going to put it onto my Desktop.
I'm going to call it Newsletter folder,
then I click Package.
Missing fonts, sure thing.
I got overset text.
Sorry about that. Should fix it.
Now something happened here.
Well, something didn't happen here, do you guess what it was?
It's that annoying printing instructions thing
that it always asks you to fill out that you'd never do.
It was just that we've moved it, you can turn it back on.
If I go to Package, it's this thing here.
We'll package and I'll show you.
You know that thing you've never filled in,
but it comes up every time?
Now there might be people who do fill this in,
I can see the point of it,
but I know if I send this to any of my printers not
one of them is going to open it to check it,
might be in a different production line where this is quite.
Good. You can turn it back on,
or like me and let it go,
and make sure it's off forever, never to come back.
It's not really a feature, but it's worth mentioning.
Next feature is a visual font browsing.
I'm going to click on some text.
In my Properties panel over here, the character,
you'll notice that this pop-out got a whole lot different, it's a lot bigger.
A couple of things have happened.
Actually what I'm going to do is I'm going to make this bigger.
I'm going to select the text first, you don't have to do this.
But over here, the new features are,
you can decide this dropdown.
I think the default is Selected Text.
You can see the little sample text,
it's actually what I have selected over here, Cafe Growth.
Because we all know we pick a font from here and it looks good in the preview,
but without particular characters,
it just doesn't look good so it's easy to do this.
Often I like switching it to Typography for some reason.
It just got a lot of the ascenders and descenders.
It's a good kind of, I guess,
generic look at a font.
You can also go in here and pick a hungry, roger, hungry, ate.
You can decide on these. I'm going to switch it back to Selected Text.
There's one in there as well, upper.
I find that sometimes quite useful in numbers.
Back to Typography. You can also change the preview size.
It's this little icon here, it's handy because we're just dealing with one word,
only use the larger size.
The other thing you might notice that you can see when I roll over it,
you see updating the text over there.
Over there, back over here.
That never used to happen as well.
A live text preview,
it updates as you're working through it.
The other big thing they've done with typography is they've
actually removed the need to jump out to Typekit.
If you've used Typekit before you go to the website,
pick a font, download it.
They've done it actually built in, which is cool.
It's called find more.
Not very exciting, but actually this,
crazily, is fonts that aren't on your computer.
They're actually just on Typekit.
Here's just thousands and thousands of fonts so you can just start using.
They've done away with the jumping in and jumping back out,
you just do it by hitting Find More.
The other thing that you'll know is that they've called it Adobe Fonts now.
It used to be called Typekit.
Adobe have done away with that name now,
and now Typekit is just Adobe fonts.
What's really cool about it is let's say, where's a font that we want?
Let's say we're going to use filters.
Filters have been around for a while,
but people don't use them in a circle.
I'm going to say I want a hand-written fonts.
I'm now looking at Typekit,
all the hand-written fonts,
and you can see that hovers above it and I
can actually just download this to my computer now.
I'm going to activate it, this please, and it's downloading it.
You can see it's synching there and I'll just have Adorn
on my computer and as long as I continue with my Creative Cloud license,
keep paying for that, you're going to keep the fonts.
You see there, it's updated.
Yes, pretty cool.
Now we're jumping out to the font or 1001 free fonts.
Unless you need a cactus shape font.
Pretty sure it's the only place to get those.
Just click on the Find More and use your filters to cut it down to stuff like,
say the hand-written, you might be picking
Slab Serif fonts or you can look at these ones at the different x heights.
Maybe need to condense width,
just super handy filters for finding fonts on Typekit.
Super-quick, super easy, and then just downloaded them within the app.
It'll be available in all apps,
so it'll be available in Illustrator and Photoshop now,
and hopefully now Adorn.
There, nice on my computer. We did it well.
The other thing to note with the change of Typekit to Adobe fonts is that,
show their old version, so their old version if I went into fonts here,
maybe this thing here, add from Typekit, so that's changed.
Now it's just fine font and here,
this one here, the Typekit.
I still uses this quite a bit because I want to see all the Typekit fonts,
they have changed that icon to look like this now,
so if you want to see on your computer all of the Typekit fonts,
well, the new Adobe fonts,
just click on that, so once that have been activated.
Let me go through and pick one from the ones you've downloaded from Typekit.
Another handy feature that they've updated in here is this option.
I'm going to turn off my activated fonts
and I'm going to turn on the ones that are recently added.
This is just really handy if you've installed fonts.
You can see here, at the top is the recently added fonts.
You might have installed them through InDesign or Photoshop,
or you might have gone through and done it with Font Book or Suitcase,
embrace so you use Suitcase.
However you've installed a font on your machine
it'll just be like show me the new ones, please.
Go on, make sure you turn them off when you're filtering them and one last thing they've
done is that they've gone and moved a couple of things that were handy,
that were along the top here.
These two little icons, they used to be up here.
Now if you hover above the ticks,
can you see this is next to the type and it show visually similar and make a favorite.
If you're using komu to new fonts,
you want to edit to your favorites, click it there,
and add that one, I'm going to add this one,
I am going to add that one to my favorites.
Instead of having to scroll down your giant font list,
what you can do is you can say,
just show me the ones I'm allowed to use.
Really handy if you're in a corporate environment where you do
have two different weights and two fonts.
It's no point scrolling,
just set favorites on them and then click this little "Star" up here,
turn it off by clicking it again.
One of the little feature that have moved,
and it's just cool like say,
like this one, you actually show me the visually similar ones.
That's just a little double wave is pretty clever, I don't know how it does it,
but you can see we had great vibes,
but look at all these fonts that are very similar there on my computer.
That is a visual font browsing.
It's updated in Adobe Illustrator this year as well.
You'll see the same thing in there,
the one thing with the visually similar one,
you need to go to this little back button.
Does say get out of there please?
Next feature, the next feature is more just a thing that happens, that's quite handy.
When I go to File Export,
what happened in the past was let's say this thing here needed to be an indirective PDF.
I'm going to click "Save" and zoom through it all,
so I exported it indirective PDF and then I went to
a completely different document that had nothing to do with the first one,
it's not meant to be a PDF indirective,
but InDesign, just removed the last thing you did.
But now what happens, let's say in this case,
this guy is meant to be print or might be
preferable EPUB or fixed layout might be JPEGs. What are you doing?
It's going to remain the pit document now,
so that was indirective PDF.
The old version, if I went to export again now aided say "Hey,
do you mean look, it's remembered."
Remembered that this guy was indirective pdf and this guy was a PDF and you
can have another thing that's EPUB and other one that does JPEGs,
so it's per document now, which is really handy.
We've all got it right you got like ten different documents open that
need to come out and they have all their own different formats.
Now they're going to remember, and the crazy thing is that they remember across
a life facing this to a different computer or colleague or my home computer,
it's going to remember the two and it saves into another option, Let's another feature.
If I got a file export,
there's this thing that wasn't there before.
What I'm going to do is on my desktop,
I'm going to export this one,
so that's using key six using the exact same name I've got my InDesign document,
whereas in the past what would happen is,
if I turn tick that I would call this one maybe
V1.1 or low less or something else and I exported it.
When I went back into Export,
it remembered the last thing I called it.
With this option on, it's going to always default to whatever the document name is.
It's on by default and you can see here it says it's
only going to work the next time I do this,
I'm going to skip through this.
The reason I show you that is because you might rely on it because that's the way it
used to work and it's going to differ key sets defaulting to the name of the file again.
If you like the old way where it edited,
because sometimes you have a working file and it's going to terrible name when
you've got a rename it for a specific job or something,
and it's great that it remembers it,
it's not going to know unless you turn that off.
It's a solution to a problem I never had,
but I'm sure obviously somebody had it because Adobe is going to edit it there.
But just know you can uncheck and go back to the way it was.
Next feature please.
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