•  What is ALD?
  • Overview of ALD
  • The ALD Toolbox
  • What Makes ALD Different?
  •  The Main Ways of Working with ALD
    • Automated Page Makeup, Document Composition, and Publication
    • Manual Page Manipulation
•  The ALD User Interface
  • Customizing the Interface
  •  ALD's Operating Modes
    • Document Mode
    • Page/Frame Mode
    • Text Mode
    • Graphics Mode
  • WYSIWYG View
  • Yellow Text Edit Bar
  • Blue Bar
  • ALD's Toolbars
  • Macro Bar
  •  Keyboard and Mouse
    • Keyboard
    • Mouse
•  ALD Workspaces
  • Introduction to Workspaces
  • Saving a Workspace
  • Loading and Unloading Workspaces
  • Workspace Files
  • JavaScript FOM Workspace Objects
  • Workspaces and Layout Editor
•  ALD Objects
  • Documents and Templates
  • Pages and Layers
  • Blocks
  • Frames
  • Graphics
  • Text
  • Tags
  • Variables
•  How ALD Applies Style to Text
  • Overview of the ALD Formatting Process
  • Text Properties
  • Tests
•  A Quick Look at Automating APP
  • What are Macros?
  • Scripting
  • Dialog Boxes
•  Additional Information
  • Further Reading
  • ALD's Add-on Libraries
  • ALD Namespaces
•  Examples and References
  • Text Version of a Basic .3d Document File
  • Text Version of a Basic .3f Template File
  • Basic Dialog Box Script Example
  • Syntax of ALD Global Variables