March, 2002 | CreativePro Network

dot-font: Font Bureau x 3

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro. If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking […]

For Position Only: Designing PDF E-Books, Part 2

One week ago in this space I discussed how to design readable e-books in PageMaker and InDesign, and export them to PDF as the books’ final format. As I explained then, these two applications allow the text in your resulting PDF files to reflow, so that readers can comfortably view your e-book pages no matter […]

On the Move to InDesign: Inserting Graphics into Existing Frames

If you place graphics into existing frames, you will almost always need to reposition or resize the graphic to fit the frame. InDesign has the same commands as XPress to resize or center the graphic, plus an extra command not found in XPress 4. Choose Object > Fitting > Fit Content to Frame to expand […]

QuarkXPress 5: Moving Ahead or Falling Behind?

QuarkXPress has been a darling of professional desktop publishers since its first version back in 1987, and for good reason: No other program supplied a similar range of reliable and sophisticated text and graphic controls. With each upgrade, Quark becomes a little more powerful and version 5 is no exception. But in the years since […]

The Art of Business: Your Client’s Bill of Rights

Considering that it’s more difficult than ever to attract new clients and harder to keep current clients, a good mantra for the day might be “client satisfaction.” Corporations pay great lip service to the concept, but what does it really mean in terms of creative services, other than listening well, being responsive, and doing great […]

dot-font: Zapfs on Paper and Onscreen

For Position Only: Designing PDF E-Books, Part 1

Ah, e-books. The term buzzes in my ears louder than a horsefly. The technology has been riding tumultuous waves lately, with continuing news of e-book-centric dot-coms folding (such as MightyWords and iPublish) yet reports of exponentially growing numbers of e-books being downloaded from the Web. And of course, e-books were also a hot topic at […]

Hands on With the New iMac

Two weeks ago, I put aside my Power Mac G4 tower and have used nothing but the new flat panel iMac (the 800 MHz/ SuperDrive). I have to say that Steve Jobs may be right: this could be the best Mac Apple has ever made, at least on a “bang for the buck” basis. The […]

On the Move to InDesign: Default Document Settings

When you open a new document in QuarkXPress, you have the choice of setting the page size, facing pages, page orientation, and so on. In XPress, whatever settings you make in the New Document dialog box become the default settings for the next new document. However, InDesign handles things a little differently. In InDesign, any […]