cross-references

After a Friday evening conference call (which in no way should be construed as evidence of my lack of a life) explaining the cross-reference formats I developed for the One-on-One series, both Deke and Colleen felt that you, dear readers, should share in our hard-earned knowledge. So for my first official post, I thought I'd walk through the hows and whys of making cross-references work for you, using some pages from the upcoming Adobe Illustrator One-on-One book as an example. It's a two-for-one sneak-peek on a new book plus explanation of a new feature!

Soft-coded cross-references have been something I have been longing for since the days of InDesign 1.5, when I first made the leap from Quark and FrameMaker. And finally, with InDesign CS4, Adobe heard my pleas. Of course, like many new features, it needs a bit of explanation... Read more »