Adobe InDesign Tables of Content

Tables of contents are to be found in many documents and act as a roadmap enabling the user to quickly find a particular section of the document. The ability to create tables of contents automatically is a useful facility found in most word processing and desktop publishing (DTP) programs. The mechanism used by most programs for generating the table of contents is what we might call style-tracking; one or more styles are designated as being associated with the table of contents. When the table of contents is created, all text in the designated style(s) is added to the list of items, usually with the appropriate page number next to it. In this article, we will look at how this feature is implemented in Adobe InDesign.

InDesign has three commands associated with the creation of TOCs, all of which are found under the Layout menu: Table of Contents Styles, Table of …

Adobe Photoshop CS4: Overview

It appears as Adobe are evolving they’re getting better and better. CS3 showed us new features such as non-destructive smart filters, quick selection, 3D composting, enhanced RAW image processing and HDR support.

Adobe’s newest software creation, Creative Suite 4, was designed to meet special challenges such as effective collaborations between designers and developers, embracing new media, reinventing publishing and embracing the explosion of connected media. Chad Seigel, Group Manager for Creative Suite has said, “Adobe is trying to break barriers and integrate all products.”

Improvements to Photoshop CS4 include an enhanced user interface with the entire application enclosed in the frame, meaning that dual monitor users can have more than one application running. The workspace switcher is for swapping between applications such as Camera RAW 5 and Bridge.

Some welcome improvements include zoom ratio which is less likely to show jagged or pix-elated lines and also boasts a flicker free …