Fellow InDesign Users I moved over to using Affinity instead of InDesign and Illustrator and I lo...

Fellow InDesign Users I moved over to using Affinity instead of InDesign and Illustrator and I lo...Fellow InDesign Users I moved over to using Affinity instead of InDesign and Illustrator and I lo...

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Scott DS Young

pro

• 1d

Fellow InDesign Users

I moved over to using Affinity instead of InDesign and Illustrator and I love it. But Can I send anyone a two page document as a pdf and can you save it as a InDesign file? Thank you in advance. Send me a note here

Scott

adobeindesign Affinity Designer

Scott DS Young

pro

• 1d

I've got to vent for a minute.

I'm honestly getting tired of asking for help on Contra and getting... ❤️ reactions.

Today I asked if anyone could do me a simple favor: open a two-page PDF and save it as an InDesign (.indd) file. That's it.

Instead of answers, I got likes and hearts.

Alabi Abiodun

• 17h

You will be provided with scanned images of the handwritten sign-up sheets. Your job is to accurately type the information from these sheets into the provided Excel template.

Data Entry Microsoft Excel Adobe Acrobat Google Sheets

Mustapha Abdus-Satar

• 20h

This indie author told me their last book got rejected by KDP three times for "font not embedded" errors. I rebuilt their file from scratch — proper font subsetting, print-bleed margins, and a reflowable EPUB that passed validation on the first upload. Their words: "I didn't know it could look this professional." That's why I do this. Book formatting · KDP · IngramSpark · EPUB conversion

Interior Design Microsoft Word booklayoutdesign Adobe InDesign Canva

Bella Brillantes

pro

• Jul 21

Led a 180-template Retail & E-commerce campaign for Canva Philippines, including IG posts & stories, TikTok live backgrounds, e-commerce banners, and tarpaulins & posters.

We introduced two new doctypes to the local library, starting from one insight: tarpaulins and banners are everywhere in Filipino retail (market stalls, store openings, roadside sales), and Canva didn't have a dedicated template for them.

Five design styles. 180 templates. One goal.

Art Direction Research Canva

MD Rafee Alam

• 2d

The insight about tarpaulins and roadside banners having no dedicated Canva template despite being everywhere in Filipino retail is exactly the kind of local gap that's easy to miss from outside the market. Smart to build the doctypes around that instead of just localizing existing layouts.