Archives: October 2007

InDesign CS3: Mastering Design Collaboration

InDesign CS3: Mastering Design Collaboration

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Features | How-To | InDesign | TOP STORIES

Whether you need to collaborate with the person over the cube wall from you or across the planet, InDesign CS3 has several powerful ways to coordinate joint efforts among creatives. In this excerpt from the new book Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, author Pariah S. Burke will help you build an efficient, effective collaboration workflow.

InstantPDF 4.0 (incl. InD Plug-In)

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Weekly Giveaway

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extraordinary xtension for QuarkXPress and an incredible InDesign plug-in…

InstantPDF 4.0 (incl. QXP Xtension)

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Weekly Giveaway

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extraordinary xtension for QuarkXPress and an incredible InDesign plug-in…

X-Rite Acquires Pantone

X-Rite Acquires Pantone

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | QuarkXPress | InDesign | Creative Suite

Color measurement and management innovator acquires the color authority

Mastering InDesign CS3: School’s In!

BY Samuel John Klein
Filed: Features | Reviews | InDesign

Pariah Burke’s recent release is a complete course, showing off InDesign CS3 from soup to nuts, makes for creditable desk reference.

ReArranger for InDesign

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Weekly Giveaway

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extraordinary xtension for QuarkXPress and an incredible InDesign plug-in…

QX-Tools Pro 7 for QuarkXPress

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Weekly Giveaway

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extraordinary xtension for QuarkXPress and an incredible InDesign plug-in…

ID2Q for QuarkXPress 6 & 7

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Weekly Giveaway

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extraordinary xtension for QuarkXPress and an incredible InDesign plug-in…

Overset Manager

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Weekly Giveaway

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extraordinary xtension for QuarkXPress and an incredible InDesign plug-in…

Add Your Paragraph and Character Styles to All New InDesign Documents Automatically

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Tip o the Day | InDesign Tips

Got paragraph and character styles you use frequently? Maybe you took our advice and created basic, global character styles for bold, italic, bold-italic, and regular…

Collect Images without Packaging

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Tip o the Day | InDesign Tips

Using the Package feature of InDesign (File > Package) is the ideal way to close out a document…

Rorohiko LayerLifter Lifts IDCS3 Objects Lightly

BY Samuel John Klein
Filed: News | Plugins/Xtensions | InDesign

Rorohiko’s new plug-in optimizes moving objects between layers, stripping it down to two clicks of the mouse.

Automatic New Image Sizing in Photoshop

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Tip o the Day | Photoshop Tips

Being a technical writer who takes many, many (many) screenshots, one of my favorite features of Photoshop is its ability to automatically create new documents of exactly the size I need…

Extract All Images from a PDF at Once

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Tip o the Day | PDF/Acrobat Tips

Recently I explained how to exact a single image from a PDF so that the image could be reused in other applications…

Free Keyboard Shortcuts Plug-in for InDesign and InCopy CS3

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | Plugins/Xtensions | InDesign | InCopy

New free plug-in for InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3 puts keyboard shortcuts within easy reach.

ImageReady CS3

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Tip o the Day | Photoshop Tips

For Web graphics work, some people prefer ImageReady’s very Photoshop-like interface to FireWorks’s obviously Flash-esque controls and interface…

Extract an Image from a PDF

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Tip o the Day | PDF/Acrobat Tips

Have you ever wanted to extract an image from a PDF and get it into Photoshop, Illustrator, or somewhere else? It’s a common enough need…

Getting InCopy Stories Back to MS Word

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Tip o the Day | InCopy Tips

Replacing Word with InCopy may have revolutionized your office’s workflow, but odds are not all of your clients, partners, vendors, or freelancers have yet seen the light…

Watch Out! Illustrator Breaks Em Dashes

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Tip o the Day | Illustrator Tips

Illustrator (CS2 and CS3) has a text rendering engine nearly as advanced as InDesign’s…

Break the Link to a Style Sheet

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Tip o the Day | QuarkXPress Tips

To break a paragraph’s link to a style sheet without losing the formatting of the paragraph itself, highlight or click the Content tool within the paragraph, and then, on the Style Sheets palette, select the No Style style sheet…