Document design is the field concerned with creating texts, that is books, pamphlets, posters and others that integrate words and pictures in ways that help people to achieve their specific goals for using texts at home, school, or work.
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HTML tables should only be used to display data in tabular form. This tutorial explains how to create tables in HTML properly.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2006). Design>Web Design>Document Design>HTML
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Hyperlinking Documents in PageMaker
These four supertips deal with adding links to your Adobe® PageMaker® 7.0 online documents: * Learn how to create anchors and simple page-to-page links. * Explore linking to external URLs using the Hyperlinks palette. * Drag links from Netscape Navigator directly onto elements on PageMaker document pages. * Create automatic tables of contents and index links for PageMaker documents that are exported to Adobe Acrobat® PDF files.
Adobe (2003). Design>Content Management>Document Design>Adobe PageMaker
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I Want to Include the Chapter Number with the Page Number in the Header
If you insist on doing this – and if you do, don't say I didn't warn you! – then the best procedure is as follows.
McGhie, John. Word MVP Site, The (2002). Articles>Word Processing>Document Design>Microsoft Word
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Illegal colors are those colors which you can pick on your computer that will not reproduce using traditional CMYK offset printing. For example, open the Apple color wheel. Set the brightness as high as it can be and click on the aqua color at nine o'clock on the wheel. You see that bright, glowy, neon-like color? Isn't it beautiful? Too bad, it's illegal. There is no way that ordinary CMYK inks can reproduce that color. Most people get into illegal color trouble when they pick a color that looks great on the screen, and then have the job printed using process colors. They then complain to the print shop that the job looks dull, that all the brightness is gone. That's the fault of picking illegal colors. You won't get arrested but you will be disappointed in the output. The following is a list of some of the popular desktop publishing program and how they handle illegal colors.
Cohen, Sandee. Design, Typography and Graphics. Design>Graphic Design>Document Design>Color
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Too often, illustrations just sit there, taking up space on the page. Here's how to make them work.
Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1996). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design
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Medical personnel in hospital intensive care units routinely rely on protocols to deliver some types of patient care. These protocol documents are developed by hospital physicians and staff to ensure that standards of care are followed. Thus, the protocol document becomes a _de facto_ standing order, standing in for the physician's judgment in routine situations. This article reports findings from Phase I of an ongoing study exploring how insulin protocols are designed and used in intensive care units to transfer medical research findings into patient care 'best practices.' We developed a taxonomy of document design elements and analyzed 29 insulin protocols to determine their use of these elements. We found that 93% of the protocols used tables to communicate procedures for measuring glucose levels and administering insulin. We further found that the protocols did not adhere well to principles for designing instructions and hypothesized that this finding reflected different purposes for instructions (training) and protocols (standardizing practice).
Longo, Bernadette, Craig Weinert and T. Kenny Fountain. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (2007). Articles>Document Design>Scientific Communication>Biomedical
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Implementing New Desktop Publishing Tools 
When faced with having to respond to increased demands for online documentation using outdated tools, the technical writing staff of Hughes Network Systems (HNS) realized the need for a whole suite of state-of-the art tools and techniques. The challenge lay in convincing management to spend the time and money to acquire them. By coupling an understanding of their own needs as well as those of their customers with an appreciation for the HNS corporate culture, the writers were able to effect a strategy that guaranteed success.
Lipkin, Regina M. STC Proceedings (2001). Articles>Document Design>Software>Case Studies
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With a little forethought, placing text in InDesign becomes almost effortless.
Adobe (2003). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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The Importance of Document Design
One definition of communication is 'the transfer of information from one location to another so that meaning is understood.' In other words, communication is what happens when one person connects to another to share information.
Quesenbery, Whitney. Intercom (2004). Articles>Document Design>Usability
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Importing and Exporting Form Data in Acrobat
When using PDF forms, it's possible to export, store and import the data in Form Data Format (FDF). Since an FDF file only includes the form data and not the form itself, it is much smaller and more lightweight that the complete PDF form, making it more efficient to manipulate. This tip explains how to export and import FDF data using Acrobat.
Shea, Dan. PlanetPDF (2007). Articles>Document Design>Forms>Adobe Acrobat
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Improving Link Display for Print
It seemed my zeal for linkage had come into conflict with my desire to improve print usability.
Gustafson, Aaron. List Apart, A (2005). Design>Document Design>CSS>Printing
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How do you ensure the PDF file you distill includes bleeds that are acceptable to a printer?
Scott, Clifford. PDFzone (2004). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Adobe Acrobat
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Harness the power of scripts to automate common tasks in InDesign.
Kloskowski, Matt. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign CS has introduced a large number of changes in scripting. Some things are new, some are simple changes in terminology, and some are changes that will break existing scripts. This is a guide to some of these changes, and is designed primarily to help in moving scripts written for version 2.0.2 to CS.
Stanley, Shane. Scripting Matters (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign How-To: Adding Custom Sizes to the Page Menu
Of course making custom page sizes if nothing new. But here's a handy InDesign CS trick for adding those custom page sizes to your Page menu so you can call it up at anytime.
Cole, Tim. Creative Pro (2004). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Adobe InDesign
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If you approach InDesign as you did your former page layout application, you may be missing out on some features that will make your life easier.
White, Terry. InDesign User Group (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: Add Style and Save Time with Paragraph Style Sheets 
Paragraph Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Style Sheets>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: Advanced Typographical Controls
Find out how to use Adobe's single line and paragraph composer, hyphenation settings and other typographical controls.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Software>Document Design>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: Design With Character - Character Style Sheets
Character Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents. Character Style Sheets are simply recorded format that you can then use in your design at will. Consistency is one of the principles that designers must follow. Character Sheets help the designer so he doesn't have to apply manually the same type of formatting over and over again throughout the document.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: Setting up a Document
Let's start with some basics. Here you will learn how to create a new document, add pages and other basic functions. A second tutorial will follow to complement this one.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign Tutorial: The Paragraph Palette
With this tutorial you will learn how to use InDesign's Paragraph Palette. Here is an explanation of most of InDesign's Paragrah Palette's functions which should arm you with enough knowledge to do most design tasks you might need to do while laying out a design document.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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InDesign is Adobe's replacement for the aging PageMaker application. In many ways, InDesign is very similar to PageMaker, but there are differences that can throw an experienced PageMaker user for a loop (albeit briefly). In this tutorial you will set up a simple layout and master page.
Iowa State University (2000). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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This tutorial goes through the different parts that compose InDesign's work area. If you want to drive a car, you want to make sure that you know where the break is, where your wheel is, where your indicator is and so on. The same is for InDesign. You want to know where you can find all the tools that you will be using to create your InDesign documents.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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The InDesigner video podcast showcases the power of InDesign to automate repetitive tasks, improve productivity and build unprecedented flexibility into the design process. The InDesigner is dedicated to empowering designers to understand and embrace concepts and features that will transform how they work and allow them to both meet their deadlines and satisfy their creative passion.
Murphy, Michael. InDesigner, The. Resources>Document Design>Video>Screencasts
