Got paragraph and character styles you use frequently? Maybe you took our advice and created basic, global character styles for bold, italic, bold-italic, and regular. Save yourself some serious time loading your commonly used styles into new documents–make them part of the default for all new documents. Open InDesign (or InCopy) but don’t open a…

Using the Package feature of InDesign (File > Package) is the ideal way to close out a document. All the document’s fonts, images, and other linked assets are collected in a central location, and the document updated to point its links to that new location. Package deposits everything–including a new copy of the INDD document…

Being a technical writer who takes many, many (many) screenshots, one of my favorite features of Photoshop is its ability to automatically create new documents of exactly the size I need. When you take a screenshot on your computer using the PrintScreen button on Windows or CTRL+CMD+SHIFT+3 on Mac, you take a snapshot of your…

Recently I explained how to exact a single image from a PDF so that the image could be reused in other applications. That method is ideal when you need only an image here and there, but if you need more than a handful of images seemingly locked away inside a PDF, it’s better to batch…

New free plug-in for InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3 puts keyboard shortcuts within easy reach.