In Adobe Bridge, the Filtered menu displays all items with the a specified number of stars OR HIGHER. To see items that are rated exactly a certain number of stars, press Command-F to display the Find dialog, and choose Rating under the Criteria section. Choose Is Equal To and the number of stars to find.
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In InDesign, choosing View> Display Performance lets you choose among Fast, Typical or High Quality. If High Quality slows you down too much, but Typical is too jaggy, you can increase the resolution of Typical by choosing InDesign> Preferences> Display Performance. Then use the sliders to increase the display quality of Raster and/or Vector graphics.
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In InDesign and QuarkXPress, you can apply the Tabs and Indents settings of one paragraph to the paragraphs directly following it: With the text tool, select any part of the paragraph that has the settings you like, and drag downward to select the paragraphs to which you want to apply the settings. In InDesign, press Shift-Command-T to view the Tabs and Indents ruler. Click the OK button. In QuarkXPress, also press Shift-Command-T, then click on the ruler to create a temporary new tab, but then drag the tab up off of the ruler and then click OK. This assigns the tab settings from the first paragraph to all selected paragraphs.
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 by Dave Caolo

Have you ever opened up a Finder window in column view and found yourself confronted with truncated file names? It’s quite annoying. Here’s a quick fix.

At the bottom of the column, you’ll see two short, vertical “pipes” (pictured above). Double click the pipes, and the window will instantly expand to accommodate the longest file name in the window. Hooray!

This is another one of those “secret, buried-in-a-vault” killer tips that addresses something Mac OS X users have complained about: The file sizes of PDFs that Mac OS X creates are sometimes too big (vs. Adobe’s Acrobat PDFs). believe it or not, there’s a way to get smaller PDFs. Here’s how: launch TextEdit, then choose Print from the File menu. From the PDF pop-up menu in the bottom-left corner of the dialog, choose Compress PDF. That’s it. It’ll compress the PDF and call it a day.

However, if you’re charging by the hour, and let’s pretend you are, you have a wonderful time-consuming option: Choose Print from the File menu, and from the second Presets pop-up menu choose ColorSync. From the Quartz Filter menu that appears, choose Add Filters. Click on the three-oval icon in the top-left corner of the dialog that appears, click on the filter named Reduce File Size, and then click-and-hold on the arrow button to the right of the filter and choose Duplicate Filter. This creates an unlocked filter you can edit.

Now click on the triangle to the left of the duplicate filter to show its options; this is where you choose what you want. I recommend clicking on the arrow to the left of Image Compression and dragging the magic slider that lets you control the amount of JPEG compression your PDF images receive. For smaller file sizes, drag the Quality Slider toward Minimum. Now go back to TextEdit and in the Print dialog, choose Colorsync from the second Presets pop-up menu, choose your new filter from the Quartz Filter pop-up menu and click Print. That’s it. (Whew!)