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How to use AI as your own personal, private tutor
OMG how cool is this! I've been playing around with various AI tools and recently stumbled across this. You can use Google's Gemini AI...
patbensky
Feb 161 min read


Connecting to the CatBase Server for the First Time
In a multi-user setup, there are two apps: The CatBase Server is the "engine" that manages your database. It resides on your server. The...
patbensky
Mar 25, 20222 min read
Un-Linking Text Boxes in an InDesign Document
How to unlink all the text frames in an Adobe InDesign document.
patbensky
Jan 5, 20181 min read


How to Create "First Letter" Subheadings
Automating the creation of "first letter" subheadings in indexes when publishing data from CatBase to Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Word, etc
patbensky
Sep 28, 20172 min read
Changing a Field Type
Once a field has been defined for one of your tables in CatBase, you can change any of its properties EXCEPT the field type. There is a way
patbensky
Sep 9, 20173 min read


How to Produce a Price List
How to rapidly turn plain data - such as database or spreadsheet data - into a stylish illustrated Price List.
Kate Robbins
Jul 10, 20172 min read


Speeding up the placement of tagged text files in Adobe InDesign
It seems that as the options and features in InDesign evolve, importing tagged text files gets slower and slower. I suppose this is...
Kate Robbins
May 2, 20171 min read
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