Month: August 2011

Adobe InDesign: Adding Bookmarks for Adobe Acrobat

Posted on: August 14th, 2011Author: barb.binderCategory: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign

by Barb Binder Sure, you can add bookmarks in Adobe Acrobat, but should you? Nope, not in my opinion. I teach how to add and edit bookmarks in my Adobe Acrobat classes, but I also take the time to make sure that my Word users know how to create bookmarks from styles using PDFMaker in Word, […]

Adobe FrameMaker: Removing bold from page numbers in a table of contents

Posted on: August 12th, 2011Author: barb.binderCategory: Adobe FrameMaker

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 23, 2020 I like mixing bold headings in my table of contents with regular weight text, but I don’t like the bold leaders and page numbers that go with it: I just think it looks awkward. My preference is to leave all of the generated […]

Adobe FrameMaker: How to Create a Mini-TOC for Individual Chapters

Posted on: August 8th, 2011Author: barb.binderCategory: Adobe FrameMaker

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated on Jan 10, 2018 Note: This post refers to a manual Mini-TOC. Beginning in FrameMaker 2015, Adobe added an automatic mini-TOC feature which is significantly easier to work with. For more information on the new Mini-TOC, see Adobe FrameMaker Online Help. Most advanced FrameMaker users know how […]

Adobe InDesign: Ten Preferences That Deserve a Second Look

Posted on: August 5th, 2011Author: barb.binderCategory: Adobe InDesign

by Barb Binder InDesign ships with default behaviors. Most of us will hunt down and change the ones that really bug us. This list represents some defaults that are mildly annoying. Still, take a look, maybe changing just one of them will brighten up your day. Mac users: start by choosing InDesign > Preferences; Windows users: […]

Adobe FrameMaker & Adobe InDesign: English International vs English US

Posted on: August 3rd, 2011Author: barb.binderCategory: Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign

by Barb Binder In two recent online classes, one FrameMaker 9/10 and the other InDesign CS5, I noticed that one of my students had inadvertently installed the International English version of their software. The FrameMaker installation was subtle. We didn’t notice it until we got to our spell-check exercise and we watched as FrameMaker flagged “color” […]

Adobe FrameMaker: Adding a Landscape Page to a Portrait Document

Posted on: August 1st, 2011Author: barb.binderCategory: Adobe FrameMaker

by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 22, 2020 Sometimes life gives us very, very wide tables. I always try to squeeze them into my portrait pages. However, sometimes there are just too many columns to fit, and unless I’m going to set the type to a minuscule size, it’s never going to […]