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.

CS4 Live Preflight Best at Checking for Font Embedding Problems

July 2 2009 • 4:25 PM

While InDesign CS3 and other utilities claim to identify protected fonts, Live Preflight in InDesign CS4 does the best in detecting problems.

Ease Your Print Production Folding Pain

June 28 2009 • 6:40 PM

Creating folds properly is one of the knottiest problems in InDesign print production. The FOLDRite Template Master plug-in for InDesign CS3 and CS4 can make them easily.

Acrobat.com Out of Beta; Free and Paid Web Conferencing

June 23 2009 • 10:21 AM

The web conferencing feature I wrote about earlier is out of beta and has free and paid options.

InDesign 6.0.3 Update Available

June 23 2009 • 10:04 AM

If you check the Adobe Updater, you’ll find updates are available for InDesign CS4 and InCopy CS4.

Free Web Conferencing Built into InDesign CS4

May 24 2009 • 3:01 PM

Everybody loves “free”! InDesign CS4 offers a free web conferencing feature called “Share My Screen.”

Use Page Transitions to Add Some Sizzle to Your PDF Presentations

May 13 2009 • 2:58 PM

Add page transitions in InDesign CS4 to add some sizzle to your PDF presentations.

Troubleshooting the “Licensing Stopped” Error

May 6 2009 • 5:49 AM

Sometimes a scary error message stops you in your tracks.

Designing Acrobat Forms in InDesign: New Resources

May 4 2009 • 2:54 PM

Two helpful new free resources for those creating Acrobat forms in InDesign are now available.

Finding and Changing Glyphs

April 18 2009 • 7:05 AM

Have you ever tried to switch to a different font in a document which uses special characters, and you find that they turn into garbage? Here’s how to solve that problem.

Customizing a Preflight Profile

April 3 2009 • 4:51 AM

The key to making Live Preflight useful for your production workflow is to create your own preflight profile. Here’s how.