by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 16, 2018 If you haven’t had the chance to explore FrameMaker’s object styles, then you are missing a terrific productivity tool. Experienced FrameMaker users learn to rely heavily on paragraph, character and table styles. Really, what would we do without them? The benefit of styles in […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Haven you taken a look at the Zoom pop-up menu in FrameMaker 11? It’s sporting a new look. Compare the FrameMaker 10 Zoom menu on the left, with the FrameMaker 11 Zoom menu on the right: Is it just me, or are we missing a few commands? This […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign I’m a big fan of InDesign presets, and use them quite a bit. Despite the fact that I’ve used every single of version of InDesign, I’m inevitably surprised when I start laying out a document in a new version and realize my favorite custom presets aren’t available. Here’s […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe FrameMaker This question just came in from one of my past Adobe FrameMaker students: I have a table with many rows and I want to split it into 5 tables. Not changing content. Just want to break it up. Say, take a 50-row table and break it into […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator We had to wait 25 years, but the day has finally arrived. Adding a gradient to a stroke is as simple as selecting an object, and choosing a gradient from the Stroke menu. Fantastic! But what are the possibilities? First of all, we now have three direction options […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Photoshop Selections in Photoshop. Can’t live with them. Can’t live without them. As an instructor, they represent the single most important feature in Photoshop to effectively communicate to my students in my Introduction to Adobe Photoshop class, because if they a.) can’t make a good selection, and b.) understand how Photoshop […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator First of all, let’s begin by wishing Adobe Illustrator a hearty Happy 25th Birthday! Where did the time go? Despite the appearance of several worthy competitors over the past 25 years, Illustrator has emerged as (some would argue “remained”) the premier illustration tool for professional illustrators. What could the Adobe engineers have possibly added […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe Illustrator A lot of our students are technical communicators and the question of the “best” way to annotate graphics comes up frequently in class. I’m really not sure there is a definitive answer to this question, but I prefer to add the annotations directly to the graphics in […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe FrameMaker Updated: Mar 17, 2015 This question came in yesterday: How do I get a paragraph tag that is present in one .fm file (and its corresponding paragraph catalog) to appear in all the .fm files and paragraph catalogs within the same book? Of course there is a […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Photoshop I don’t know about you, but I love the reorganization of the vector options in Adobe Photoshop CS6. I’m finding myself using vectors where I would have been using pixels in CS5 and earlier. What’s making me so happy? The first reason is very minor: there are now […]
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