Most of us are at The InDesign Conference in Miami right now, so it’s hard to get away to post tips. However, I was sitting at the AskMOGO desk yesterday and an attendee asked an interesting question: She has a lot of index markers in a document, often one right next to the other, and she wanted to know how to figure out what each index marker refers to.
The problem is that after you place an index marker, it’s just not obvious how to open the Page Reference dialog box to see how it was indexed (how it shows up in the index, what range it has, and so on)…
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It was fifty years ago this month that the peace symbol first appeared, a design conceived by British graphic artist Gerald Holtom as a symbol for nuclear disarmament. The simple intersection of three lines inside a circle has endured as one of the most recognizable icons in the world and has been associated with a […]
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On February 26, Michael Ninness, the senior product manager of Adobe InDesign, demonstrated something at Mogo Media’s InDesign Conference that he was careful to call a “technology preview,” but which seems like a clear signal of Adobe’s direction in the near future. Ninness opened the conference by showing the audience examples of several digital magazines, […]
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Apple® today updated its popular MacBook® and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple’s innovative Multi-Touch™ trackpad, first introduced […]
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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a call for entries for the Adobe School Innovation Awards. The awards program honors the creative and innovative work of high school students. With the theme “My Community – My Planet – My 21st Century” students can submit entries in three categories: Web Design and Development, Film and Video, […]
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The PandaWare Company has released another free periodic update to its Mac OS X time and expense billing application, TimeCache. This update to version 7.0.7 focuses primarily on report and invoice layout enhancements. Improvements and bug fixes include: Lets users add geometric objects to layouts to provide visual enhancement Offers far more options for customizing […]
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Enfocus (https://www.enfocus.com) announces important updates to some of its key products. PitStop Server, a tool for high-volume PDF preflighting and automatic corrections; Instant Barcode, an easy-to-use barcode application within Adobe Illustrator; and Instant PDF, which makes producing press-ready PDF files easy. “Customer feedback plays a key role in enhancing our products,” comments Leo Vanderdonckt, Enfocus […]
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Pros: Great image quality; excellent interface; very good Live View implementation; new custom mode feature; larger LCD. Cons: Auto bracketing still limited; lacks some features of the competition, such as a built-in intervalometer; retains that silly Direct Print button. Rating: 90 When thinking about product upgrades, most of us focus on the things that we […]
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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® AIR™ and Adobe® Flex® 3 software, furthering the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs). Developers and designers use Adobe RIA technologies to rapidly create and deploy rich, branded content and applications. The release of Adobe AIR signals the next wave of Adobe RIA […]
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