Posts by Steve Werner

Steve Werner is a trainer, consultant, and co-author (with David Blatner and Christopher Smith) of InDesign for QuarkXPress Users and Moving to InDesign. He has worked in the graphic arts industry for more than 20 years and was the training manager for ten years at Rapid Lasergraphics. He has taught computer graphics classes since 1988.

Is Snow Leopard Ready for Prime Time for InDesign Users?

October 30 2009 • 4:40 PM

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was released on August 28. It’s now been out for two months. Is it time for InDesign users to install it?

Hidden Gems: The Story Editor

October 23 2009 • 7:48 PM

Some of InDesign’s best tools don’t get the respect they deserve. One of my favorites is the Story Editor.

Notes for “Creating an eBook” Session at MAX Available

October 7 2009 • 7:31 AM

Colin Fleming has posted “slides” from his “Creating an eBook” session at the Adobe MAX 2009 Conference

Creating eBooks in InDesign

September 18 2009 • 6:30 PM

A new Adobe white paper and a couple of blog posts provide essential information for creating eBooks for the Kindle and the iPhone.

Expose in Snow Leopard Provides a New Way to Drag-Place Files on the Mac

September 3 2009 • 9:55 PM

Snow Leopard provides Mac users a new way to drag-place images onto an InDesign page.

Acrobat’s Adobe PDF Printer Replaced in Snow Leopard

August 30 2009 • 10:08 AM

You’ve installed Snow Leopard, and your Adobe PDF printer doesn’t seem to be working. Here’s what’s happened.

Showing and Hiding Objects in Interactive PDF

August 18 2009 • 10:44 PM

Here’s another interactive PDF button technique which is easy but not obvious.

CS4 Bug Status Reports

August 4 2009 • 4:05 PM

You’d think that after three updates to InDesign CS4, all the bugs would be gone, but if you thought that, you’d be wrong.

PDF Button Tips, Tricks and Problem Solving

July 27 2009 • 9:35 AM

Some issues in creating buttons for PDF are easy to overlook, so here are some tips and tricks. Sometimes, you’ll need to troubleshoot the buttons your create in Acrobat.

Easier Button Creation in InDesign CS4

July 12 2009 • 8:36 PM

If you’ve been confused by the way buttons were created in earlier versions of InDesign, you’ll find them much easier in InDesign CS4.