by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator From a Rocky Mountain Training student: Hi Barb, I have a quick question for you. I’m attempting to switch from doing most of our ads, posters, etc. in InDesign to Illustrator since I feel comfortable with Illustrator now. =) I’m trying to add an outer glow to some text […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Mar 07, 20203 FrameMaker is a master at generating lists. You can quickly create a chronologic list of headings with page numbers (AKA a table of contents), or a chronologic list of TableTitles (AKA a list of tables) or an alphabetized list like an index. A […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator Updated for CC 2015 on May 4, 2016 When life gives you colors defined using CMYK process colors and you need Pantone spot colors, what’s a gal to do? Quickly and easily convert your inks to Pantone using the Recolor artwork dialog box, that’s what! Here’s how: Select the object(s) containing […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker One of my regular FrameMaker layout jobs is chock full-o-footnotes. I know from polling many FrameMaker students over many years that most FrameMaker users don’t use very many footnotes, if any. Wish that was true for me, but it isn’t, and that’s why I still hold out hope […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker This question (and answer) came in recently from one of my Advanced FrameMaker students: Hi Barb, Here’s my NoteImage and NoteText in the NoteTable tag. Is there a way to keep this spacing as I add text to the note? I want Note to stay at the bottom […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign CS6 This question came in recently from one of our local InDesign User Group members: The attached screenshot is from a publisher’s catalog that I’m preparing. Note the light yellow highlight I placed over the problem area. The word should be “behind” and that’s what I see […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator, InDesign and FrameMaker Yesterday, I had the opportunity to deliver an Adobe-hosted webinar on incorporating Illustrator into a FrameMaker workflow. Illustrator is included with TCS4, and Creative Suite and Creative Cloud, but most of my layout students have confessed that they don’t ever open it. Turns out, they […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated on Nov 7, 2016 From a recent Rocky Mountain Training Advanced FrameMaker student: I am working with a two-level list. The first level uses numbers, and the second list uses letters. The numbers start out correctly; as do the letters, but when I go back to numbers, things […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 23, 2020 From a recent Rocky Mountain Training FrameMaker student: I took your FrameMaker class at the beginning of the year. I have a question about variables that hopefully you can help with. I need to make a variable that contains a trademark symbol, but I can’t […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 23, 2020 From a recent Rocky Mountain Training FrameMaker student: Hope you and your classes are going well. I have a quick question that I was hoping you could help me with: I am making a table of contents (TOC) for my book, but when I […]
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