Bluebeam Revu
- Commenting Panes: a Comparison Between Acrobat DC and Bluebeam Revu
- Things I Love About Bluebeam Revu: Part 2
- How to Email a PDF using Bluebeam Revu
- How to Make a Multiple Color Highlighting Palette in Bluebeam Revu
- Introducing my Favorite Features of Bluebeam Revu PDF Editing and Markup Software
InDesign
- Stockinette Stitch Knitting Fonts
- A Workaround For Numbering Table Columns
- Why Won't InDesign Sample Scripts work in InDesign 2019?
- MoreInfo Improves Notes, Conditional Text, Tracked Changes and More
- Caution, Warning, and Danger Styles
- Making Hidden Characters More Subtle
- Help Make Adobe Products Better with UserVoice!
- Solving Problems With Complex Table Formatting
- Using Paper Color to Help Distinguish Various Files
- Show the InDesign Notes Tool Some Love!
- A Fix for the Dreaded Quick Apply Crash
- How to Add a Special Character in Front of a Numbered List
- Tips for Fixing Overset Text
- How to Make Tie-Dye Patterns in InDesign
- An Easier Way to Apply Gradients to Table Cells
- Create a Valentine's Day Pattern Using Conditional Text
- How to Create a Checkerboard Paragraph Rule
- Using the Links Panel to Locate the Original Raw Image
- Making a Charlie Brown Shirt with Conditional Text
- How to Make Checkerboard Gingham in InDesign Using PatternMaker Lines
- Creating Houndstooth Patterns
- How to Check Tint Shades Using the Separations Preview Panel
- Creating Patterns With InDesign Concentric Circles, Stroke Styles and Blending Modes
- Supercharge Your Graphics with Cell Styles (Planning a Raised Garden Bed)
- Overcoming Limitations with Find/Change and Conditional Text
- Why Does InDesign Think There are 69 days in the Month?
- Making Patterns with Conditional Text
- Using PatternMaker Lines to Recreate Striped Knitted Fabric
- PePcon Swag Collection
- Idea for a New and Improved Conditional Text Dialog Box
- How to Make Lumberjack Plaid
- Pointer Lines for Technical Writers: Part 2
- Making a Checkerboard Pattern With Nested Styles
- An Improved Sample Buttons and Forms Library Panel
- Forbes: Adobe InDesign Continues To Define Desktop Publishing
- Version-Specific Application Icons for InDesign
- My Wish List for Notes - Across the Suite
- Relinking Graphics: Tired of Navigating to the the Original Link Folder? Fix it!
- An Easier Way to Do an 11x17 Foldout Page
- My Wish List for Notes in Adobe InDesign
- Understanding Dotted Stroke Styles in InDesign
- Help! Where Did the Cross References Panel Go?
- I'll be Speaking at PePcon 2014!
- How Designers Can Utilize Mac OS X Accessibility Features
- Creative Cloud a la Carte
- Hover Scrolling in InDesign CC: It’s a Feature Not a Bug
- Introducing “Magneto Paths”
- The Beauty of Stacked Strokes
- Have You Hugged Your Developer Today?
- Adventures in Flexible File Prep: New Twist on PDF Form Fields
- Beware Stacked Transparency in PDF Files Across Long Documents
- Too much text? Try TypeFitter Pro
- Finally! Improved Conditional Text
- Cross References Pro Quick-start Video
- Stacking Order Bug when Exporting to Interactive PDF
- Create a Herringbone Brick Pattern Using InDesign and Illustrator
- Conditional Text Sunshine (making a cool design with an unexpected tool)
- Knitting it Softly
- Ignite! 2013: Making Patterns in InDesign
- My Ideas for How InDesign and Acrobat Can Be Improved (Kickstarter Ideas)
- InDesignSecrets Podcast 192
- Use PatternMaker to Design a Geometric Color Block Pattern
- How to Make an Argyle Pattern in InDesign
- How to Make a Herringbone Pattern in InDesign
- Create a Flat-Bottomed Stroke, Part 2
- Create a Flat-bottomed Stroke
- The Top Eight Reasons You Should Attend the Print and ePublishing Conference
- Using InDesign Snippets in a Printing Workflow
- Put Your Book Documents on a Time-Out for Bad Behavior
- Use Place and Link to Impose Documents in a Printing Workflow
- The Elusive Stroke Style Units of Measurement
- Making Slanted Strokes
- Where Did My Hidden Characters Go?
- Make PDF Sticky Notes in your InDesign Document
- Locating Your InDesign Serial Number
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road
- Use InDesign Table of Contents to Make PDF Bookmarks
- Gift Ideas for the InDesign Geeks in Your Life
- American Flag Stroke Style
- Make a Mondrian using InDesign Tables
- Character Underlines, Paragraph Rules… and the State Flag of Texas
- Mysteries of the Elliptical Overset Cell Symbol Revealed
- Making a Chevron Pattern Within InDesign
- What To Do When InDesign Text Variables Don't Display Correctly
- How to Locate Greek Letters and Mathematical Symbols without Going Crazy
- Create a Geometric Flower Pattern with Multi-Colored Centers
- Using Document Grid and Visible Guides to Create Imposition Templates
- Book Review: InDesign Production Cookbook
- How to Make an InDesign Text Frame with a Background Image
- Is Your 10-key Numeric Keyboard Not Working in InDesign? Here's why.
- How to Make Pattern-Filled Text in InDesign
- Green Circle and Crosses Fabric Pattern (PatternMaker)
- "Change Bars"...Not Just for an Editing Workflow Anymore!
- Make a Valentine's Day Flower with InDesign and Illustrator
- PatternMaker Weave: Chinese Carpet Pattern
- PatternMaker Squares
- How to Avoid Accidentally Auto-Expanding Your "Live Corners"
- The Trick to Getting Column Strokes to Be in Front
- When Text Won't Left-Align
- Diamonds, Dots, and Waves: Stroke Style Options for InDesign Tables
- The British Flag as an InDesign Table
- The Case of the Possessed InDesign File - Mystery Solved
- Fun with Geometrics! Stripe Stroke Style + Tables + Diagonal Lines...
- Using InDesign Tables to Duplicate the Window Structure Outside the Lincoln Memorial
- How to Incorporate Chapter Thumbnail Images into an Auto-Generating Table of Contents
- How to Make Your Own Custom Business Cards for Around $10
- The Pitfalls of Editing InDesign Hyperlink Destination Names
- How to See Hidden Conditional Text in InDesign, Without Making the Condition Visible
- Quick! I need some 1950s style floor tiles in my design!
- Remove Trailing Whitespace Gotcha! Underline Tab Stops Disappear
- Adventures in Exporting: A Lesson in Patience
- Making InDesign Absolute Links behave like Relative Links
- Using Preview as a Workaround when Acrobat Pro Won't Open a PDF File
- How to Make a Gingham Pattern in InDesign
- Using InDesign Tables to Design a Geometric Color Block Pattern
- Using Teacup PatternMaker to Mimic Knitted Garter Stitch
- How to Avoid Accidentally Auto-Expanding Your "Live Corners"
- Hey Rounded Corners—Quit Messing with my Paragraph Rules!
- A Designer's Guide to Understanding Polygon Point Order when Using InDesign's Corner Effects Script
- Variable Data Meets Large Format Printing
- A new use for InDesign Notes: Sub Conditional Text!
- Data-less Tables: InDesign meets Knitting
- Pointer Lines for Technical Writers
- When InDesign Paste No Longer Works
- InDesign Crashing and Making me Crazy
- Inline Buttons: How to make a URL in a PDF Underline on Hover
Acrobat
- Musings on the topic: "Should I Edit this PDF?"
- Making Sense of the Color Panels in Adobe Acrobat
- After More Than a Decade, a New Comment Icon in Acrobat!
- Commenting Panes: a Comparison Between Acrobat DC and Bluebeam Revu
- Dropbox now Integrates with Online PDF Editing Software
- How to Get the Old Version of Acrobat Back
- Compare and Contrast: Page Thumbnails vs. Organize Pages Tool
- How to Create a "Custom Tool" in Acrobat DC
- How to Make a PDF Drawing markup with "No Fill"
- How to Make Colored (and more attractive) Checkmarks for Acrobat Fill and Sign
- How to Customize Toolbars in Acrobat DC (Video)
- Quick and Dirty Page Imposition Using Only Acrobat
- An Easier Way to Mark Comments as Checked in Acrobat DC
- How to Get Around the Slow-Moving Acrobat Tools Pane
- Use Replace Document Colors to Help Distinguish Various Files
- Acrobat's Mysterious and Frustrating Hand Tool Behavior
- Understanding the Interchangeability of PDF Comments Across Adobe Programs: Part 2
- Help Make Adobe Products Better with UserVoice!
- Understanding the Interchangeability of PDF Comments Across Adobe programs
- Flattenizer Script for Adobe PDFs
- My First Lynda.com Course!
- Easy Drag and Drop PDF Pages Extraction
- How Remove Date and Time From PDF Comments
- How to Add Rotated Text to a PDF in Acrobat DC
- Number Knitting #4: Virtual Coloring in Acrobat DC Using the Drawing Tools
- The Case for Still Using the Deprecated Features in Acrobat, Part 1: The Properties Toolbar
- How to Change the Text Size in Measurement Tool In Acrobat DC
- How to Use The Acrobat DC Highlighter Tool
- Are Your Sticky Note Icons Too Small? Make them Bigger!
- Sort Comments by Color, in Acrobat DC! FINALLY!
- How to Print a PDF with Comments
- The Ins and Outs of Summarizing Comments
- Sort Comments by Color... In Acrobat DC!
- Repurposing Acrobat's Built-in Stamps
- How to Add Rotated Text to a PDF
- Best Practices for using PDF Commenting Tools in Acrobat XI
- Why I Run Four Different Versions of Acrobat
- A Workaround When Acrobat says a PDF is an "Unsupported File Type
- Use Powerpoint to Make Patterned Stamps for Engineering Drawings
- Using Illustrator to Make Patterned Stamps for Engineering Drawings
- More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Acrobat's Page Thumbnails Panel
- How to Replace Pages in a PDF using Acrobat's Pages Panel
- How to Run Acrobat XI Actions in 1-click Instead of 3
- My Wish List for Notes - Across the Suite
- How to Globally Change Font Size of Text in a PDF Sticky Note
- Help! Where is the Marquee Zoom in Acrobat?
- An Easier Way to Do an 11x17 Foldout Page
- Working With FDFs: Forms Data Files
- Custom PDF Font Encoding: Why You Should Care and What You Can Do About It
- Creative Cloud a la Carte
- Why Do All My PDFs from Microsoft Office Print Fuzzy?
- Adventures in Flexible File Prep: New Twist on PDF Form Fields
- Beware Stacked Transparency in PDF Files Across Long Documents
- My Ideas for How InDesign and Acrobat Can Be Improved (Kickstarter Ideas)
- Adobe Reader XI for Knitters
- Saving PDFs for Reader Users: the How and Why
- What To Do When InDesign Text Variables Don't Display Correctly
- Using Document Grid and Visible Guides to Create Imposition Templates
- A Closer Look at the Sub-Level Sorting When Sorting Comments by Color In Acrobat 9
- Extract Vector Logos from PDFs
- How to Remove Reader Enablement in Acrobat
- Using Preview as a Workaround when Acrobat Pro Won't Open a PDF File
- An Easier Way to Open Web-based PDFs from Safari
- Acrobat Rectangle Tool: Why Do You Disappoint Me So?
- How to Synchronize Acrobat Checkmarks Between Your Computers
- Acrobat Typewriter Tool: Just Embrace it!
- How to Extract Text From Locked Comments within an Acrobat Shared Review
- How to Edit Font Properties Within a PDF Sticky Note
- How to edit text in a PDF with unembedded fonts
- Bulletproof, flexible files for Adobe Reader users
- The Undocumented Back Door to Organizing Your Stamps
- Highlighting a PDF that contains no fonts
Illustrator
- How to Recreate a Multi-colored Triangle Afghan Using Illustrator Scribble and Live Paint Bucket
- Precise Pattern Positioning in Illustrator
- Creative Cloud a la Carte
- Seeing Patterns: The Chevron Pattern
- Using Illustrator’s Object Mosaic and Recolor Artwork to Create a Grid-Based Design for Analog Output
- Argyle Scribble
- Create a Herringbone Brick Pattern Using InDesign and Illustrator
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road
- Why Does My CMYK Illustrator Document have a 4-color Default Black?
- Book Review: Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One
- Green Circle and Crosses Fabric Pattern (PatternMaker)
- Make a Valentine's Day Flower with InDesign and Illustrator
- Simple Explanation of How to Make a Seamless Illustrator Pattern
- Adventures in Exporting: A Lesson in Patience
- Creative Ways to Track Down Vector Logos
- Designing for Small Non-Profits: Preparing Flexible Files to Be Used with Consumer-Grade Software
- PMS to CMYK Press Sheet
- Variable Data Meets Large Format Printing
Dropbox
- Dropbox Commenting is No longer in a Silo!
- Dropbox now Integrates with Online PDF Editing Software
- How to Bypass Dropbox Automatic Synching Order
- Beware of Dropbox Commenting
- More Reasons to Hate Dropbox Commenting
Technical Writing and Long Document Workflows
- Caution, Warning, and Danger Styles
- Show the InDesign Notes Tool Some Love!
- A Fix for the Dreaded Quick Apply Crash
- How to Add a Special Character in Front of a Numbered List
- Sort Comments by Color, in Acrobat DC! FINALLY!
- The Ins and Outs of Summarizing Comments
- Sort Comments by Color... In Acrobat DC! (Sort of)
- Repurposing Acrobat's Built-in Stamps
- Best Practices for using PDF Commenting Tools in Acrobat XI
- Overcoming Limitations with Find/Change and Conditional Text
- Why Does InDesign Think There are 69 days in the Month?
- Idea for a New and Improved Conditional Text Dialog Box
- Pointer Lines for Technical Writers: Part 2
- An Easier Way to Do an 11x17 Foldout Page
- My Wish List for Notes in Adobe InDesign
- Help! Where Did the Cross References Panel Go?
- Beware Stacked Transparency in PDF Files Across Long Documents
- Too much text? Try TypeFitter Pro
- Finally! Improved Conditional Text
- Cross References Pro Quick-start Video
- Why You Should Consider Becoming an Adobe Certified Expert
- Put Your Book Documents on a Time-Out for Bad Behavior
- Saving PDFs for Reader Users: the How and Why
- What To Do When InDesign Text Variables Don't Display Correctly
- How to Locate Greek Letters and Mathematical Symbols without Going Crazy
- How to Incorporate Chapter Thumbnail Images into an Auto-Generating Table of Contents
- How to See Hidden Conditional Text in InDesign, Without Making the Condition Visible
- Remove Trailing Whitespace Gotcha! Underline Tab Stops Disappear
- Making InDesign Absolute Links Behave like Relative Links
- How to Synchronize Acrobat Checkmarks Between Your Computers
- How to Extract Text From Locked Comments within an Acrobat Shared Review
- A new use for InDesign Notes: Sub Conditional Text!
- Pointer Lines for Technical Writers
Printing and Prepress
- How to Check Tint Shades Using the Separations Preview Panel
- Using InDesign Snippets in a Printing Workflow
- Use Place and Link to Impose Documents in a Printing Workflow
- Using Document Grid and Visible Guides to Create Imposition Templates
- How to Make Your Own Custom Business Cards for Around $10
- Adventures in Exporting: A Lesson in Patience
- Creative Ways to Track Down Vector Logos
- PMS to CMYK Press Sheet
- Variable Data Meets Large Format Printing
- Designing for Small Non-Profits: Preparing Flexible Files to Be Used with Consumer-Grade Software
- Bulletproof, Flexible files for Adobe Reader Users
- Using Preview as a Workaround when Acrobat Pro Won't Open a PDF File
- EASY Mac Screen Sharing
- How to Bypass Dropbox Automatic Synching Order
- Beware of Dropbox Commenting
- PePcon Swag Collection
- Working with Smart Folders in OS X
- Knitted Branding: Interpreting a 2D Vector Design with Double Knitting
- How Designers Can Utilize Mac OS X Accessibility Features
- Creative Cloud a la Carte
- Beware of the Fire of Crisis
- Have You Hugged Your Developer Today?
- Knitting it Softly
- Check out my new YouTube Channel!
- Why You Should Consider Becoming an Adobe Certified Expert
- Not According to My Plan...Better than My Plan
- Gift Ideas for the InDesign Geeks in Your Life
- Windshield Repair Logo Turned Into a Custom Cake
- Quick! I need some 1950s style floor tiles in my design!
- New Web Site for Our Publishing Company
- Designing for Small Non-Profits: Preparing Flexible Files to Be Used with Consumer-Grade Software
- The True Story of How Address Book and MobileMe Saved Christmas
- Examining 2 PDFs - they look the same, but are they really?
- Personal Studies
Knitting and Other Home-Ec Related Topics
- Stockinette Stitch Knitting Fonts
- A More Accurate Knitting Graph Paper
- Cotton Shimmer Shawl (Knitting Pattern)
- Number Knitting #4: Virtual Coloring in Acrobat DC Using the Drawing Tools
- Number Knitting #3: So Why am I Republishing "Number Knitting?"
- My Secret Dream of Becoming a Clothing Designer
- Number Knitting #2: Colorizing Photos in Photoshop
- Number Knitting #1: My Quest to Republish "Number Knitting: The New All Way Stretch Method"
- Atlantic Triangles Waves Afghan Pattern
- How to Recreate a Multi-colored Triangle Afghan Using Illustrator Scribble and Live Paint Bucket
- Creating Houndstooth Patterns
- Supercharge Your Graphics with Cell Styles (Planning a Raised Garden Bed)
- Using PatternMaker Lines to Recreate Striped Knitted Fabric
- Christmas and the Love of Documentation
- Knitted Branding: Interpreting a 2D Vector Design with Double Knitting
- Seeing Patterns: The Chevron Pattern
- Intarsia Pattern Design Using Illustrator’s Object Mosaic and Recolor Artwork to Create a Grid-Based Design for Analog Output
- Knitting it Softly
- Adobe Reader XI for Knitters
- Windshield Repair Logo Turned Into a Custom Cake
- Using InDesign Tables to Design a Geometric Color Block Pattern
- Using Teacup PatternMaker to Mimic Knitted Garter Stitch
- Data-less Tables: InDesign meets Knitting
- How to Make a Gingham Pattern in InDesign
- More Reasons to Hate Dropbox Commenting
- Beware of Dropbox Commenting
- The Case for Still Using the Deprecated Features in Acrobat, Part 1: The Properties Toolbar
- Why I Run Four Different Versions of Acrobat
- Too much text? Try TypeFitter Pro
- The Top Eight Reasons You Should Attend the Print and ePublishing Conference
- Making a Chevron Pattern Within InDesign (PDF2DTP by Markzware)
- "Change Bars"...Not Just for an Editing Workflow Anymore!
- PatternMaker Squares
- Fotolia.com Review
- Examining 2 PDFs - they look the same, but are they really? (PDF Comparator Review)
Book Reviews
