Posts by Bob Levine

Bob Levine is a graphic designer and a consultant focused on providing InDesign training and guidance in developing efficient, collaborative workflows to those moving from QuarkXPress or PageMaker. An Adobe Certified Expert in both InDesign and InCopy, Bob has written articles for InDesign Magazine and is an Adobe User to User forums host. He has more than 15 years of industry experience and has been using InDesign since version 1.0. For more background, visit his website, www.theindesignguy.com.

Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud Launch Event Set for April 23

April 16 2012 • 5:03 PM

We’ve known for quite some time that CS6 would be coming in the second quarter of 2012 but now we know the date.
Adobe will be holding a special launch event on Monday, April 23 at 10:00 AM PDT. If this is anything like past events there will be demos of the various products and a [...]

InDesign CS6 Sneak Peek: New Content Collector Tools

April 3 2012 • 11:56 AM

InDesign CS6 will have new tools for re-purposing content.

Getting Around Windows 7 Security to “Save” Files Into InDesign’s Application Folder

February 11 2012 • 2:41 PM

Most of us know that scripts are really nothing more than plain text files. In fact, many times in a user forum I’ll see a simple script typed out with the instructions to copy it to a plain text file and save it in the InDesign scripts folder with a JSX extension. Another use for [...]

InDesignSecrets Videocast #16: The Overlay Creator Panel

December 8 2011 • 4:58 AM

Guest presenter Bob Levine shows how to use the new Overlay Creator panel to build interactive content, such as pan and zoom, html content, and slide shows

When to Use (and Not Use) the Preview Panel

November 1 2011 • 12:40 PM

InDesign’s Preview Panel is for SWF output only. So what should you use for EPUB, PDF and DPS?

Adobe Introduces Affordable Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition

October 3 2011 • 10:19 AM

For a one-time fee of $395 small publishers, designers, and agencies can now publish branded apps to the iTunes Store.

Digital Publishing Suite Ideas for the “Little Guy”

September 1 2011 • 11:33 AM

There’s no need to spend a fortune to publish interactive apps from InDesign to the iPad. Here’s a few ideas to get the juices flowing.

The Joy of Snippets

May 25 2011 • 9:47 AM

Still using libraries? You may just change your workflow after reading this.

A New Workaround for that Pesky Background Export Issue

May 20 2011 • 7:57 AM

This “set it and forget it” fix turns off background exporting of PDF.

Digital Publishing Suite Freebies to Make iPad Publishing a Bit Easier

February 8 2011 • 3:38 PM

A few freebies for InDesign users publishing to the iPad