Browse Print Publishing Help and Tips

Browse Print Publishing Help and Tips

Add, remove, and replace PDF pages
Pariah Burke walks you through the process of adding, removing, and replacing pages in complex Acrobat Pro PDF files.
Extracting content from PDF files
Contrary to popular belief, it's really easy to retrieve content from finished PDF documents.
Solve inkjet printer problems
Troubled by blurry prints or strange colors? Try these solutions to common printer frustrations.
Bugs & Fixes: What bugs Mac OS X 10.6.2 tackles
The Mac OS X 10.6.2 update fixes several bugs that Ted Landau looked at in previous columns. Here's a rundown of what the updated OS addresses.
Keep track of changes in Pages
Apple's Pages not only tracks changes and comments in your documents, but also lets you share those changes, even with Microsoft Word users.
Design basics: The alignment analysis
You don't need a degree in graphic design to create great-looking documents. You just have to follow a few simple rules. Today we learn about alignment.
Design basics—the proximity principle
When it comes to designing pleasing ads, brochures, and flyers, space matters.
Create a digital ID with Adobe Acrobat
Need a digital ID? Here's how to create one with Adobe Acrobat.
Create unique margins and text flows in Pages
Use Pages to create interesting margins and lines that flow through your text, creating interesting looking layouts.
Sign electronic documents with your own handwritten signature
Did you ever wonder how to create your own handwritten signature? Look no further.
Speed up operations in photo-laden Pages files
Learn a super-easy way to make operations in Pages much faster, especially when working with files that are loaded with a lot of photos.
A Zebra with stripes of a different color
How do unusual font families work? It's simple: each part is actually a separate font, designed to match up perfectly if you stack two or more text containers on top of each other. If you want a unique look for your brochure, poster, or Web site, here are a couple of ways to accomplish it.
Image-placing shortcuts in Adobe InDesign
Adobe's InDesing page-layout application usually offers more than one way to take care of a task. That's certainly the case for placing images in a document. Join James Dempsey as he shows off some ways to improve your productivity with a few handy keyboard shortcuts.
Navigate an InDesign document using Power Zoom
In the latest version of InDesign, Adobe removed the Navigator panel and replaced it with Power Zoom, a more useful and intuitive way to navigate your documents. James Dempsey shows you how to use Power Zoom.
Convert AppleWorks documents to .rtf
You've got a slew of AppleWorks word processing documents that you'd like to open in iWork's Pages. Which converter to get? None. The answer is easier than you think.
Crop multiple pages in OS X 10.5’s Preview
Learn how to remove excess margin space from multi-page PDFs in Leopard’s Preview.
Making the most of InDesign’s Workspace feature
Workspace is a feature in InDesign that gets very little attention. That’s a shame because it can really improve your productivity if used effectively. James Dempsey shows you how.
Better color management with Pantone’s ColorMunki
One of the most difficult aspects of graphic design is color management. But the ColorMunki tools from Pantone help ensure accurate color from design to output. James Dempsey takes ColorMunki design out for a test spin.
Font management with Suitcase Fusion 2
Last month, Extensis updated its single-user font management tool, and James Dempsey takes a closer look at how to use Suitcase Fusion to take the headaches out of font management.
Brushing up your Creative Suite skills
With Adobe’s new Creative Suite 4 now available for download, James Dempsey assembles a list of some of his favorite sites for tutorials, tips, and news for the applications that make up the Design Premium suite.
Working with Acrobat 9 Pro
With all the attention focused on Adobe’s Creative Suite products, James Dempsey looks at the one part of the CS4 puzzle that’s already available—Acrobat 9 Pro, which debuted this past summer.
Bugs & Fixes: OS X 10.5.5 causes hassles for some apps
While this month’s OS X 10.5.5 update fixes a number of bugs, it also introduces some new ones, such as third-party apps that have problems with the update. Ted Landau looks at two such instances.
Default fonts and Pages
Pages is not Microsoft Word, and therefore offers no default font. The key to creating such a "default" lies in templates.
Tame type troubles
Solving a font-related problem is a simple two-step process: figure out what’s causing the problem, and then fix it. OK, maybe it’s not that simple: symptoms can have many causes, and causes can have many possible fixes. But with this guide, you can both use symptoms to pinpoint a probable cause and find the cure most likely to work. Even better, you’ll learn how to avoid some problems altogether.
Mac OS X Hints - May 2007
This month Rob Griffiths offers tips on how to put your Mac to sleep from afar, get a handle on fonts, send long URLs via e-mail, merge two iCal calendars, quickly hide Mail’s preview pane and decode Mail’s folder colors.
Custom templates in Pages
Pages 2, the page-layout and word processing program included with Apple’s $79 iWork ‘06 suite, comes with more than 60 beautiful and versatile templates. Whether you’re creating a template for an auction brochure, a recipe card, or another project, the basic steps are the same.
Save time with Word's styles
Whether you want company correspondence to have a certain look or need your dissertation to follow MLA styling, you can easily spend hours formatting Microsoft Word documents. But there’s a faster way.
Excerpt: Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X
Looking to trim some unwanted fonts on your Mac? Then you face two challenges: how to remove fonts and which ones you absolutely shouldn't get rid of. In this excerpt from Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X, Sharon Zardetto Aker walks you through the steps of removing fonts you no longer want.
Killer XPress time-savers
Tips for low-level QuarkXPress tasks—such as zooming in and out, scrolling, and changing pages—are so crucial. Dig in here to find indispensable tricks and compelling shortcuts you’ll use over and over again.