By Barb Binder I’m a big fan of FrameMaker’s unique Esc key shortcuts. I’m all about using the keyboard to get my work done in a timely manner, but I know that many of my students really find the three-key shortcuts both cumbersome and overwhelming. How about trying some function key shortcuts? Here’s a quick […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign Updated on Sep 30, 2016 What in the world is General Regular Expression Print (GREP)? Wikipedia defines it as “… a command line utility that was originally written for use with the Unix operating system. Given a list of files or standard input to read, GREP searches […]
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By Barb Binder Updated Apr 17, 2016 Have you ever taken a rapid series of group shots, but can’t find a single image where every single person is looking at the camera, eyes open and smiling? If you are looking for a quick way to combine two mediocre images into one good image, try the Auto-Align […]
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By Barb Binder It seems like most Photoshop users, even when they don’t know how to do anything else with the software, know how crop photos. It’s pretty easy: when you want to remove pixels from along the edge of a photo, you grab the Crop tool from the Toolbox, draw a crop box, tug […]
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By Barb Binder Graffiti. I expect to find it in the big cities, and even occasionally in small towns. But here we are outside the very small town of Moab, Utah and it’s everywhere. Even in the National Parks. Okay, so most of the “graffiti” we found was rock art by the Anasazi and the […]
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By Barb Binder Updated: June 8, 2023 This is one of my all-time favorite tips because it’s something I have to deal with on a regular basis. Let’s say I need to replace a paragraph in my FrameMaker document with one from an MS Word file. The process seems easy enough: go to Word, select […]
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By Barb Binder Do you have some favorite FrameMaker type sizes that you use all the time? Are they listed in the picture below? The sizes listed in the picture above are the default type sizes listed in FrameMaker’s Paragraph and Character Designers. If your favorite choices are listed, great! If not, you have to […]
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By Barb Binder I don’t need dashed lines very often in FrameMaker, but when I do, sometimes I need something different than the standard fare found in the Dashed Line Options dialog box (you can display this dialog box by clicking the set Dashed Line Pattern button on the Drawing Toolbar). If you’d like to […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign and FrameMaker Updated: Sep 22, 2020 You’ve been producing publications in Word for years, but are finding that your files are just getting too complicated and difficult to handle. You are ready to make the move to a professional page layout program and turn to Adobe Systems, […]
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