Russell Viers is an Adobe Certified Instructor who also teaches QuarkXPress. His 27 years in the newspaper and printing industries allows him to bring real world expertise to those he trains. Read more...
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Travel Tips from Europe As I look out the window of my hotel here in St. Petersburg, Russia, I see kids playing, trying to make snowballs out of the one centimeter deep powder that has fallen this morning. This could be anywhere, were it not for the clearly Russian letters on the signs.
Sometimes as I travel I marvel at [...]
Surviving Yearbook, through the eyes of Leo Thompson As far as I know, no yearbook adviser is trained to be a yearbook adviser. However, if they were I wonder what a depressing training academy it might be. Firstly, it would start with course units like ‘deadlines’ (i.e. when you cross this ‘line’ and you are ‘dead’, or at least close to [...]
Read moreNo, not yet…still busy catching up on stuff.
I have some of my mates lined up to help me on it, so I’ll keep you posted. Lots of good stuff coming up between now and Christmas, so plenty of reasons to have them.
Cheers for now…RV
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Linking Text Between Multiple Documents If you have ever wanted to link a text frame from one InDesign document to another, you can’t. But I have written a little step-by-step trick that allows you to do it now, thanks to CS4’s Conditional Text feature.
I just posted the tip on my buddy David Blatner’s InDesign Secrets Blog. Check it out at: [...]
Bad Waitress Story II Last night in Moscow I on my way to a customer visit with large Russian daily newspaper with my Adobe friend Roman Menyakin…and we were hungry.
Because of traffic, we wanted to get to the customer’s office so we knew we could make it on time.
We arrived an hour early, enough time to grab something at [...]
Travel Tips from Europe As I look out the window of my hotel here in St. Petersburg, Russia, I see kids playing, trying to make snowballs out of the one centimeter deep powder that has fallen this morning. This could be anywhere, were it not for the clearly Russian letters on the signs.
Sometimes as I travel I marvel at [...]
Bad Waitress Story II Last night in Moscow I on my way to a customer visit with large Russian daily newspaper with my Adobe friend Roman Menyakin…and we were hungry.
Because of traffic, we wanted to get to the customer’s office so we knew we could make it on time.
We arrived an hour early, enough time to grab something at [...]
On The Road with my Hot Tamales About a month ago my good buddy Brent Niemuth visited me in Bregenz, Austria with a big box of Hot Tamales. Good stuff.
So I took them with me on our Beatles tour trip to Liverpool and London. They also joined me on trips to Warsaw, Istanbul, Winchester, Brussels, Zurich and Amsterdam.
As my wife was packing [...]
Surviving Yearbook, through the eyes of Leo Thompson As far as I know, no yearbook adviser is trained to be a yearbook adviser. However, if they were I wonder what a depressing training academy it might be. Firstly, it would start with course units like ‘deadlines’ (i.e. when you cross this ‘line’ and you are ‘dead’, or at least close to [...]
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