EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is an excerpt from Adobe InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, by David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción (2005; reprinted by permission of Peachpit Press/Blatner Books). The make ...

While you're designing, typesetting and producing client projects in Adobe InDesign, you may need a means of sharing the text in your layouts with others whose systems don't include the same software.

Nothing is ever exactly as it seems in Adobe InDesign. When you create a simple text box and place it on a page, the text you type may look bland and slim by default. InDesign's text editing and ...