Desktop Publishing

Adobe Photoshop is a popular graphics editing and desktop publishing application. The Adobe Photoshop software may be purchased from many online vendors. However, Adobe sells the product directly...

The Fuse Box digital video camera, by MGA Entertainment, is a 1.3 megapixel camera and creates digital video and images that it saves to a smart memory card. The Fuse Box also comes with a...

Form features such as drop down boxes are created with JavaScript. Basically, anything that moves dynamically on the web is scripted. Publisher does not support scripting, but you can work...

Clubs and organizations, businesses and even families often use electronic or print newsletters to keep members, employees or customers up to date on what's going on within the group and to...

MS Publisher is the desktop publishing application offered as part of the Microsoft Office Suite or as a standalone software program. You can use MS Publisher to make high-quality publications to...

Journalism instructors often ask beginning students to create fake obituaries about themselves. Some may find this difficult, but writing obituaries can help students learn some of the basic...

PostScript fonts are computer-generated type that is even and consistent when output to any printer. When you print a document containing PostScript fonts, the computer takes the information and...

You have planned the perfect fundraising dinner; you have purchased all the right foods and your home or meeting hall is decorated to the tee. Now all you have to do is design the perfect ticket...

Flowcharts can be a great way to organize data and represent a process. Software engineers use flowcharts to visualize the information processing system. Web designers use flowcharts to organize...

Sometimes it is necessary to convert an HyperText Markup Language (HTML) table to a Portable Document Format (PDF) for inclusion into a book, handout or even to display on a web page. Until a few...

Alignment is an important aspect of desktop publishing and graphic design, but sometimes, it can be difficult to tell when items are perfectly aligned. Adobe InDesign has taken this into...

You can add a signature space to a PDF forms or documents. You can then add your digital signature to the PDF by clicking on the space and typing your name or inserting a premade signature...

Microsoft Word 2003 comes with form field toolbar that allows you to create form fields with a click of the mouse. You can add fields where users can type in information, create check boxes or...

Drop down boxes are a common option used for creating document forms. Microsoft Word has the ability to generate a Word document with drop-down boxes to serve as a form when saved as a template...

Ever go online and see a great picture that would make an excellent desktop wallpaper or would be perfect for your school project, but when you right-click on it, you just can’t seem to get it...

InDesign is a professional graphic design program that is compatible with most printing services. It is a very powerful program with many features. Most of them are not necessary to learn in...

A text box is a special object that you can place in your Word or Publisher document or PowerPoint slide, and then add text (or pictures) to it. It’s invaluable in desktop publishing, or just to...

A text box is a special object that you can place in your Word document, and then add text (or pictures) to it. It’s invaluable in desktop publishing, or just to emphasize certain text. Why would...

You can easily design your own business card by creating a simple formatted template in Microsoft Word. You can then save and reuse the template --- you can even revise it later if needed. The...

One day, possibly 20 years into the futre, your simple little photo book could fall into the hands of your children or grandchildren. They will most likely look through your photos with admiration...

Making a nice invitation to a baby shower has become much more complicated (as well as much easier) in recent years. It is more complicated because there are all kinds of graphics and elements...

Paint.Net is one of the best free photo editors out there. If you have ever wondered how you could add text to a picture then this article is for you.

Custom templates provide a great way to make a statement with your MySpace page. That statement can be one that raises awareness of your favorite issue. Breast cancer far touches too many lives,...

When you are making a listing on eBay to sell an item, your listing page should look professional and attractive. One way to add color, different fonts, graphics and other features to an eBay...

Embedding a font in an Adobe PDF file is a useful technique that helps authors control the appearance of documents to ensure that readers have a consistent experience. The embedded font does...

Using Microsoft PowerPoint to create certificates, you can change names and dates without accidentally changing the layout. Once the layout is complete the file can be given to coworkers or...

Cropping a photo means selecting a portion of a digital photo to keep and deleting what is not selected. Microsoft's Paint computer program does not have a crop function like other photo...

Here is a trick I just recently learned myself. I thought it was neat, so I decided to share. Follow these steps if you have an artistic flair, and you would like to let some of your creative...

Are you looking to make a fancy headline for a Microsoft Publisher document? How about making some words in your Publisher document stand out? Whatever your goal, Publisher's WordArt function...

QuarkXpress is software commonly used to create and edit complex page layouts including: flyers, magazines, newspapers, catalogs and other printed materials. You can also use a plugin to Quark...

Think you want to add a little spark to your website? Add mouseover information boxes so that when someone rolls their mouse over it will create a informative box with YOUR information that you input

Creating your own brochures is fast, inexpensive and easy. You can create brochures on your computer for your business, for a special event or for your club or organization. By creating an...

I write a lot about software products and how to use them. To help make the articles more effective I always use screen capture images and add text and arrows to give the reader a visual idea of...

Text box linking is among the most useful features in Quark Xpress 6. Use this feature whenever you want text to flow continuously from one box to another. When you link text boxes, you text will...

Freehand and Bezier boxes are helpful in creating certain documents because they prevent the user from being restrained by the regular box options. Creating freehand and Bezier boxes in Quark...

There are seven text box tools in Quark Xpress 6 that allow you to make boxes of any size at any spot on the page. Once placed, you can add elements such as text inset, columns and box linking.

Locking different elements in Quark Xpress 4 allows you to protect your document from shifts and accidental drags and drops. Another form of locking is called constraining. You have the option...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, Quark Xpress offers many kinds of picture boxes to make any document a work of art as well. Depending on the document you are producing, you will want to...

The Clipping Tool is a program hidden away in most Windows operating systems. Windows Vista provides a program along the same lines as the usual clipping tool, but is referred to as the "Snipping...

Publisher 2002 allows you to add page numbers to your documents. Adding page numbers is a great way to organize your documents and allow viewers the ability to reference them quickly. If you...

Microsoft Publisher enables the user to create a variety of professional documents using simple templates with a wide range of designs. However, you can also create customized templates. The...

You know how professional designers always put Latin text in their designs as easy to spot placeholder text? It's easy to do in InDesign.

Reverse text is white text on a black background instead of the standard black text on a white background. You can format reverse text in any text box in your Microsoft Publisher 2007 document to...

You can edit and change the look of any drop caps in your Microsoft Publisher 2007 documents. Use this process to edit a custom or pre-formatted drop cap until this decorative character achieves...

After you have created a text box in Microsoft Publisher 2007, you may have to move it. You can move the text box by clicking and dragging it to the new location with your mouse.

You can add a whole new look to the text in your Microsoft Publisher 2007 document by rotating a text box so it sits at an angle. Use the mouse to rotate an empty text box or one with text in it.

There may come a time when you want to delete a text box in a Microsoft Publisher 2007 document. When you delete the box, any text inside the text box also deletes. You can delete multiple text...

Linking text boxes is a helpful way to keep text nicely organized within your Microsoft Publisher 2007 document. If you are rearranging text, you may find it necessary to unlink the linked text...

Linking text boxes is one way to organize a large volume of text within your Microsoft Publisher 2007 document. If you want to edit the text in the linked text boxes, this is the best method to...

Filling a text box with color in a Microsoft Publisher 2007 document is a great way to add some excitement to your publication. This process instantaneously fills the background of the text box...