Adobe indesign cs6 for dummies pdf pdf#

IвЂ™m surprised since so few people use QuarkXPress any more. Seems like Adobe has given up on their own nomenclature and is using QuarkвЂ™s. Select a text box and choose Object > Text Frame Options To flow text between connected frames (alsoД¬alled text boxes), you must first connect the frames.ДЎ.

Adobe indesign cs6 for dummies pdf pdf#

So I decided to search through the Help PDF for instances of вЂњtext box.вЂќ I found:

ItвЂ™s one thing when students call them boxes, but when Adobe does it hurts. I had recently complained to someone that the online help used the term вЂњtext boxвЂќ instead of вЂњtext frame.вЂќ OK, I think IвЂ™m getting obsessed by this. But it is actually an intergral part of the program. Others may think of Help as an afterthought. Yes, I know this makes it better for people like me to earn big bucks (Ha!) on our books and videos.Д«ut this is not a good sign for the quality of AdobeвЂ™s products.

I love Anne Marie and think she does an amazing job with her videos.Д«ut users shouldnвЂ™t have to rely on third-party authors and educators to explain the program. That it!!! Nothing on the menus, what they mean, what the boxes do, or what the check boxes do. (I hope I got the HTML tags right for this.) And this is the sum total of the entire section on the new Auto-Size feature: No result, even though Auto-Sizing is the label for the menu. I found the PDF, downloaded it, and entered Auto-Sizing in the Find field.

Then I got a clue to come read this article. Fortunately I learned everything I needed. The closest I got to any information was a tutorial posted to You Tube featuring Anne Marie talking about the feature. IвЂ™ve just spent a half hour trying to find information about the Auto-Sizing text feature new to CS 6. It means that youвЂ™ll have to rely even more on websites like this, books like Real World InDesign and InDesign Visual QuickStart Guide, and online and in-person instruction to learn InDesign. ItвЂ™s too bad that the help Adobe provides for its increasingly more powerful and complex applications gets worse and worse. You can read some of their comments on the Community Help Application forum. ItвЂ™s not only InDesign users who are unhappy with the Help files, other Creative Suite 6 customers are as well. So material was moved out of the PDF for no apparent reason. That includes an oddly arranged WhatвЂ™s New section that includes WhatвЂ™s New in CS6, CS5.5, CS5, Arabic and Hebrew features, Liquid Layouts and Alternate Layouts, Forms. These are links to the Online Help! You canвЂ™t read them in the PDF document. Even if you specify results from InDesign it mixes in results from other applications (search for effects, and it includes Adobe After Effects). There is no organized topic list or index. It looks quite nicely designed but is pretty useless for finding topics except for the simplest top-level choices. This takes you to the InDesign Online Help which requires Internet access. If you start at the InDesign CS6 Menu, you logically choose InDesign Help as before. First, you have to find the PDF file because, unlike in CS5 and 5.5 Help, there is no obvious link to it. Well, the InDesign CS6 Help PDF is now here, along with those for the other CS6 products, and itвЂ™s just as bad as the Online Help. Later, we were told that the PDFs would come out by the end of June. When I looked at the online Help the first time after InDesign CS6 came out, my reaction was, вЂњIs that all there is?вЂќ Major topics were left out, and the content was choppy and disorganized. As a beta tester, I usually get an early look at the Help files but they were curiously missing this time, except for a brief WhatвЂ™s New in CS6 section. I had been getting the whiff of disaster for a month or two about the Help files in InDesign CS6, and the rest of the Creative Suite.