The primary reason you might want to convert text to outlines is to make the text independent of system fonts installed on any given computer.

In Adobe InDesign, tables are always anchored objects within a text frame, and they can be anchored before or after regular body text. An anchored object is basically any kind of frame within a text frame, which means typography options like text alignment and paragraph spacing can be applied to the object. In many cases, […]

You’re not limited to running forms and reports from the navigation form. You can use navigation buttons to run macros as well, thus opening the range of functionality to any process you can write a macro or module for.

The Workspace refers to how the entire InDesign window is configured—the panels on the Panel Dock, the tools that are displayed on the top level of the Toolbar, etc. There are several preset workspaces built into InDesign that are geared for different kinds of projects, such as Digital Publishing. Customized workspaces can also be created […]

One advantage to creating an Adobe InDesign Book from multiple project files is that one file can be used to harmonize Swatches, Paragraph Styles, and Master Pages throughout all the book files. To synchronize your book files, follow these four steps.

What if you created an object in Java and wanted to make it permanent so you can continue working on the object at a later time? The solution is to serialize the object and then write it to a file. When you need the object in the future, you can then read the object back […]

Many instructional designers prefer to create custom caption styles. Those custom styles can then be exported and imported into other projects.

The Tell Me tab on the Ribbon is a shortcut to actions in PowerPoint 2016. To use the PowerPoint Tell Me tab, follow these instructions.

In a Tomcat production environment, you might have hundreds of web requests per second on a routine basis. With so much volume assaulting your Tomcat server, you’ll probably discover that memory resources in one Tomcat JVM (Java Virtual Machine) can become overwhelmed. To help prevent this situation from becoming reality you can place two or […]

A comment in a Java program is one or more lines of text. A comment may be single line, multi-line or Javadoc. To practice writing each type of comment, follow these four steps.