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.

Story Cloner Script Synchronizes Text in a Snap

June 26 2009 • 7:06 AM

Syncing text frames is now just a double-click away

Hey, Buddy. Can You Spare a Layer?

June 16 2009 • 7:10 AM

A few empty layers can go a long way when placing layered Photoshop and Illustrator files.

PDFs Placed into CS4 Documents May Drop Characters When Exported to PDF.

May 29 2009 • 12:30 PM

Issue affects PDFs viewed or printed in Acrobat or Reader version 8 and earlier.

Jump to a Master Page

May 27 2009 • 11:22 AM

While it’s not obvious, you can use the Go to Page dialog to go directly to a master page.

Please, Adobe…Can We Have Crossplatform Licensing?

May 20 2009 • 11:25 AM

Today, I got an email from Quark extolling the virtues of Quark 8. It was connected to the demo I downloaded a couple of months ago and was to tell me that the evaluation period had ended and of course invited me to purchase the software. The email listed all of the great features of [...]

A Down and Dirty Way to Lock Content

May 17 2009 • 9:44 AM

Prevent accident changes to finalized content by exporting to InCopy.

Designing Forms with InDesign? Acrobat’s Replace Pages Feature is at Your Service.

April 29 2009 • 3:01 PM

Revising a PDF form doesn’t have to mean a lot of work.

Living Peacefully Without the Navigator Panel

April 16 2009 • 9:50 AM

InDesign CS4 loses one old feature but adds a new way to get around a document.

Shipping Soon: Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text & Layouts

April 4 2009 • 7:44 AM

Michael Murphy’s new book takes an all encompassing look at InDesign Styles

Rorohiko Advises User of Active Page Item Runtime or APID ToolAssistant to Update Plugins

March 29 2009 • 7:04 AM

Free update fixes unexplained crashes caused by earlier versions.