Senior Field Engineer

As Senior Field Engineer at DPCI, Rob Underwood is responsible for a wide range of services including training, technical support, and systems integration.

The co-author of six Adobe training books, Underwood is an Adobe Certified Print Specialist, an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat, and Certified Technical Training (CTT). In addition to articles on the Creative Suite, Rob also writes on K4 Editorial System.

Blogs

Recent Webinars

> Integrating K4 and Drupal to Support Multi-channel Workflows

White Papers

> The Challenges with ECM With or Without a Down Economy

> Innovations in Digital Asset Management, Circa 2008

January 20, 2010

How to Create Dynamic InCopy Article Templates Inside of K4

Posted at 12:36 pm by Robert Underwood

September 30, 2009

Exploring Adobe InDesign CS4’s Built in Scripts

If you've never opened the Scripts panel in InDesign before, you don't know what you're missing! more

Posted at 10:00 pm by Robert Underwood

August 28, 2009

Make Panel Titles Easier to Read Inside Adobe InDesign CS4

In InDesign CS4, Adobe changed the way the text looks in panel titles. Every panel title now appears in all capital letters. This has made some users upset because the panels are harder to read, and the titles take up more screen real estate. Not to mention the fact that I feel like InDesign is yelling at me now!

Posted at 05:30 pm by Robert Underwood

July 27, 2009

Using the New Grep and Nested Line Styles Feature’s Inside InDesign CS4 — Part 2

Building a Grep Style Into a Paragraph Style

Continuing where I last left off with the new Nested Line feature inside my last blog, this next entry will explain how to build a Grep Style into a Paragraph Style.

Styles more

Posted at 09:40 am by Robert Underwood

July 27, 2009

Using the New Grep and Nested Line Styles Feature’s Inside InDesign CS4 — Part 1

Using Paragraph Styles and Character Styles for type is hardly a new invention. However, InDesign continues to take styling to a new level in CS4 with the brand new Grep and Nested Line Styles features. This two-part blog will explain both of these new Paragraph Style features, as well as some older style features you may not have known about.

Posted at 09:32 am by Robert Underwood

June 23, 2009

How to Correct Spelling Errors in Multiple Languages Using InDesign

If you edit publications in multiple languages, publish books on learning languages, or even plan on putting together a cookbook filled with foreign recipes, you should know how to spell check these documents using the different language dictionaries built into Adobe InDes more

Posted at 03:22 pm by Robert Underwood

June 11, 2009

InDesign Libraries: How to a Build a Versatile InDesign Library that Everyone Can Share

Maybe years ago you used Libraries inside of Quark to store clipart or logos. They were a great time saver, an easy way to quickly drop commonly used graphics and text frames into your layout. Now that you’ve been using InDesign, perhaps you have not decided to rebuild those Librar more

Posted at 01:40 pm by Robert Underwood

February 25, 2009

K4 Tips: Creating Run Sheets from a Query

A sometimes-tedious task necessary for the newspapers and magazines is the maintenance of a run-sheet or story budget for each issue. The person responsible for this document has to conduct regular meetings and correspondence in order to keep the document updated.

What if there was an easier way?

If you're using K4, there is. more

Posted at 12:55 pm by Robert Underwood

February 23, 2009

K4 Tips: Automatically starting RunScript.Command scripts on Mac K4 servers

Whenever you restart your K4 server, there are several scripts that you need to remember to start in Terminal; CopyBLOBs, SwitchIssues and SendNotificationMail. Typically, you restart the machine then click on the RunScript.Command file in each of their respective folders in K4_Server_Software > more

Posted at 12:00 pm by Robert Underwood

December 05, 2008

K4 Tips: Secret Logging Trick

"It took me 20 minutes to check that file out!"

"That file takes forever to check in."

"What's the average check in/out time in K4?" more

Posted at 12:29 pm by Robert Underwood

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