Have you ever wanted to extract an image from a PDF and get it into Photoshop, Illustrator, or somewhere else? It’s a common enough need. For example, smaller clients of graphic designers often have difficulty tracking down high-resolution or resolution-independent versions of their logos, leaving a designer scouring through the client’s previously published material in…

Replacing Word with InCopy may have revolutionized your office’s workflow, but odds are not all of your clients, partners, vendors, or freelancers have yet seen the light. How can you work with collaborators still on Word? Easily. Turn InCopy stories into a format Word users can read. Select File > Export. In the Export dialog…

Illustrator (CS2 and CS3) has a text rendering engine nearly as advanced as InDesign’s. For that reason (and because Adobe finally added underlining as a type option in Illustrator), more and more designers are using Illustrator to produce complete single-page layouts they would have otherwise done in InDesign. After all, if you need the superior…

Whether you need to collaborate with the person over the cube wall from you or across the planet, InDesign CS3 has several powerful ways to coordinate joint efforts among creatives. In this excerpt from the new book Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, author Pariah S. Burke will help you build an efficient,…

To break a paragraph’s link to a style sheet without losing the formatting of the paragraph itself, highlight or click the Content tool within the paragraph, and then, on the Style Sheets palette, select the No Style style sheet. The appearance of the text will be retained as local formatting. The same trick works for…