Photoshop CS6 Extended offers a powerful 3D extrusion tool. Here we see how to use it with text to great effect, adjusting contours, angles and width for maximum impact.

Photoshop has some great warping features, and this movie shows how they can be applied to text. It demonstrates the presets you can use, and how to customize these settings to truly modify them.

Learn best practices for editing text placed in pdf forms using the typewriter tool in Acrobat 9, Acrobat X, and Reader X.

Here we see the different options Photoshop's type engines offer for tracking, size, scale, color and alignment. It explains point and paragraph text and where you would use them.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to take text from a scanned PDF document and export it to Word or Excel using Acrobat X or XI Std. or Pro.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to find and correct Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text errors when you convert a scanned document into a PDF file using Acrobat X or XI Std. or Pro.

This brief tutorial shows you how to add call-outs, text bubbles and text captions to an image. You can use this feature to add your thoughts to any image; in this example, a teacher annotates a picture of a creative classroom to talk about his vision for an ideal learning environment. This activity comes from the Adobe Professional Development Workshop, "Explore Creativity in Today’s Classroom".

We all know that Adobe Illustrator gives you the ability to draw resolution-independent artwork and, at the same time, work with and control text. Now, with the incorporation of a new Transform panel and Touch Type Tool, Adobe has once again pulled some mighty cool rabbits out of the Illustrator hat. Let Andy Anderson, and Infinite Skills show you the basics of these new additions to the Adobe Illustrator arsenal of powerful tools.

InDesign now generates improved markup when using the Convert to Text Option. Taken from Train Simple's InDesign Training.

Although Word has a loose equivalent to user variables, this features is far easier and more straight-forward in FrameMaker 11. Unlike Word, no macros or arcane program strings are required. User variables are ideal for product names, company locations, designated staff members ... anything that is likely to change in your document. Simple actions allow you to globally update not only the content of variables, but their appearance as well. You can combine this feature with conditional text control, which allows you to swiftly "show" or "hide" different sections of text, tables or entire graphics that are associated with a certain version of your documentation. This allows a single set of source files to produce multiple versions of your documentation for various customers or internal content consumers. These features can be invoked with simple keyboard shortcuts while authoring, and you can import their values and setting from one document into an entire book!