#29933
Opening PDF Documents in Full Screen Mode
Adobe Acrobat allows users to configure the opening settings of PDF documents to display them in full screen mode. It's as effective as a PowerPoint display and very easy to accomplish. This tip explains how.
Shea, Dan. PlanetPDF (2007). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#18350
Optimize Adobe PDF Files for Palm OS Devices 
You can read any Adobe® PDF document on a Palm OS® device by simply dragging the file into the Adobe Acrobat Reader for Palm OS application window. But if you want to optimize the PDF file for the best possible display on a handheld device, combine the power of Adobe Acrobat® 5 with Microsoft® Office 2000 or later.
Adobe (2003). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#21943
Opening somebody else's PageMaker publication? Here's an explorer's guide to the discoveries and dangers that may be lurking.
Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1996). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker
#18335
PageMaker Past, Present, and Future
For millennia, humans have struggled to communicate, first with grunts and sign language, then with speech. But it was when humans learned to write that civilization became possible. First we painted on cave walls, then chiseled in stone, then wrote on more practical and portable things, like wood, papyrus, and finally paper. Hand printing ink on paper was the state of the art for hundreds of years until mechanical inventing was invented, first with engraving and then with movable type. But setting type with metal was still slow, dangerous, and difficult work. This was not dramatically changed until the twentieth century with machines like the Mergenthaler and Linotype. In 1984, the state of the art was phototypesetting on large, complex machines that were expensive and where what you was was nothing like what you would get. Then three companies -- Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, and the Aldus Corporation -- changed everything.
Adams, Peter C.S. Makingpages.org (2002). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker
#24733
PageMaker Scripting for Non-Programmers
Scripting is simply a method of automating complex or time-consuming tasks in PageMaker.
Haugen, Diane. Document Design (2001). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker
#12950
A PageMaker to PDF: Converting Your PageMaker Files 
A three-page manual for creating Acrobat PDF files from page-layout files.
Carpenter, Amy. TECHWR-L (2009). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker
#22419
Da druckt meine Quelldatei mit allen Pixelbildern wunderbar, wenn ich diese aber mittels Acrobat in das PDF-Format von Adobe wandle, kann ich in den Pixelbildern kaum noch Text lesen, sind alle feinen Linien weg und ist auch sonst die Qualität der Pixelbilder nur noch mäßig.
Transcom. (German) Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
#22782
Some caveats when placing PDFs in Quark prior to distilling.
Sprague, Rich. PDFzone (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
#21832
Whip that document into shape - master the master page in InDesign and PageMaker.
Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (2000). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#22595
A listing of over 700 tools for checking, separating, correcting colors, ordering and re-ordering pages.
PlanetPDF (2003). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#21954
Lots of people don't know about PageMaker's support for tagged text - and they're missing out.
Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker
#22542
This round-up of plug-ins and XTensions includes tools for opening Photoshop files in QuarkXPress, editing paths in Illlustrator, masking blue screens in Photoshop, and more. Plus, a run-down of what you can do with alap's XPert Tools XTension.
Nelson, Jay J. Creative Pro (2004). Design>Document Design>Software
#23085
Preflighting for PDF/X-Compliance with Acrobat
PDF/X (PDF Exchange) is a subset of Adobe PDF that eliminates many of the color, font, and trapping variables that lead to printing problems. You can verify that a PDF document is PDF/X-compliant in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional before submitting the document to a service provider, and then embed the verification results in the file.
PlanetPDF (2001). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#21531
QuarkXPress is categorized as page layout software - software that lets you easily place text and graphics on a page. Using well-designed page layout software has the feel of moving actual columns of text, blocks of color, and images around and pasting them into place. Unlike a word processor, which is driven by a continuous text flow, QuarkXPress gives you complete control over the elements you place on each page. QuarkXPress is a standard at most publishing companies and advertising agencies.
Lycos (2004). Articles>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
#22544
QuarkXPress 6 Tips: Working with Layers
Learning to use layers in your page-layout program can greatly streamline design and production. See how to tap into the power and flexibility of layers in QuarkXPress 6.
Assadi, Barbara and Galen Gruman. Creative Pro (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
#21525
QuarkXPress Technical Manual Project
The following is a step-by step tutorial outlining how to make a technical manual suitable either for print or for screen display as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
Mike's Sketchpad (2002). Articles>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
#26558
QuarkXPress Tutorial: QuarkXPress' Work Area
Familiarize yourself with QuarkXPress 6.x work area.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
#21529
QuarkXPress Tutorials and Training
Look for tips, tutorials product support, downloads, templates,and publications for QuarkXPress. Find formal and informal training classes and seminars both online and offline for this popular desktop publishing program.
Howard Bear, Jacci. About.com. Resources>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
#25140
Redefining the Document Using Adobe Acrobat
How content is combined from multiple sources quickly and easily.
Baker, Donna L. STC Region 7 Proceedings (2002). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#23133
Distributing documents as Adobe PDF files can reduce the problems that may occur when you exchange large presentation or page-layout files. In many cases, you can make your Adobe PDF file even more compact without compromising the document's integrity. The PDF Optimizer in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional gives you easy access to several options that can help you reduce the file's size, including compression options that are comparable to the ones available when you create an original Adobe PDF file using Adobe Acrobat Distiller.
PlanetPDF (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#29932
Reducing Screen Clutter in Acrobat
Are you looking to remove all distractions to read your PDF content? Perhaps you just want to remove all distractions so that you can skim through your PDF document before signing off on it and sending it off? This tip explains how to reduce on-screen clutter in Acrobat to allow you to focus your attention completely on the content.
Shea, Dan. PlanetPDF (2007). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#22540
Reinventing Quark: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
When creative professionals think of Quark, they tend to think only of QuarkXPress - or perhaps a negative technical-support experience. But Quark is more than a one-product company, one that has been trying to change for the better. Craig Cline provides an inside peek at Quark's new attitude.
Cline, Craig. Creative Pro (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
#28064
Replacing Gradient Colors With a Swatch
InDesign shares a feature with Illustrator that enables you to select a color stop in a gradient and replace it by clicking on a color swatch in the swatches palette.
Cole, Tim. Adobe Evangelists (2006). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#23455
This page is dedicated to the Adobe FrameMaker software. It includes many suggestions for customizing FrameMaker as well as a guide that my department used for converting thousands of pages from Word to FrameMaker.
Henkel, Rick. Docspages (2000). Resources>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
#31753
The Right and Wrong of Quark and Adobe Strategies
What distinguishes the underlying strategies of Adobe InDesign from QuarkXPress is the absence or presence of a content management system (CMS). And each company asserts that it’s following the less-traveled road. The problem is they’re both taking roads most traveled because of their respective stances towards integrated content management systems, and I’ll show you how after looking at their respective strategies.
Kuhnen, Eric. Content Wrangler, The (2008). Articles>Document Design>Software>Content Management
