Posts by Bob Levine

Bob shares an amazing trick that shouldn’t work… but does!

If what I see on the User to User forums is any indication there seems to be some confusion out there concerning upgrades. Let’s get the definitions out of the way which will hopefully save some folks a bit of grief when deciding what to buy.

Upsell. An upsell allows the purchaser to buy a new [...]

I’ve been using transparent PSD files from Photoshop since the release of InDesign 2.0. I still remember the first time I used one and experienced a feeling of wonderment I’d never felt before when laying out a page. I felt free from the rigors of faking backgrounds with full page TIF files or drawing clipping [...]

These updates are now available via the Adobe Updater.

I expect they’ll show up on Adobe’s main download site very shortly along with release notes to list the issues that this patch addresses.

Mac users can skip this one.
There have been scattered reports in the InDesign Windows User to User forums from of CS3 crashing when opening files from either Bridge or Explorer. Apparently the folks at Adobe have found a workaround but not an exact cause or fix.
As explained in this TechNote article, the workaround, besides not [...]

In the last few days I’ve been playing around some the interactive features of InDesign. I created a few buttons with effects and text and because there’s no way to test these features within InDesign, I attempted to export a PDF with all of the appropriate settings: Acrobat 6 compatibility, Include Interactive Elements and Embed [...]

Looking for help moving from QuarkXPress? Don’t hit F1.

It’s no secret that many InDesign users are QuarkXPress converts; more and more of them every day. There are plenty of books and training videos that make the transition as easy as possible but sadly, the one area that lacks much in the way of help is [...]

Not to be outdone by the folks in Cupertino and the problems with Leopard, it looks like our friends in Redmond may have broken a feature in InDesign CS2 with the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3, the capability to open Pagemaker files.

After reading a few reports of problems in the User to User [...]

Anyone visiting Adobe’s website for the next five weeks or so looking for product demos is going to be greeted with a one sentence statement:

Product trials are unavailable until July 1. We apologize for any inconvenience. For additional details, please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

The reason according the referenced FAQ is a bug [...]

By now everyone’s familiar with software activation so I’m not going to go into the explanations for it. While each company has its own system they all do pretty much the same thing. They control how many computers on which you can run the software. Notice I that I said run, not install.

With Adobe’s activation [...]