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InDesign How-To: Using OpenType

OpenType is a new font format that gives you access to thousands of special characters within your page layout or illustration — providing the application supports the format. One application that does support OpenType is InDesign 2.0. With this software combination you can automatically insert ligatures and special accents without trudging off to specialty helper […]

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For Position Only: Is Cross-Media Publishing Fact or Fiction?

"Fact or Fiction: Reusing Content Across Multiple Media" was the panel I moderated at Seybold San Francisco two weeks ago, and you’ll be happy to know that the three industry experts who spoke all agreed that reusing content across multiple media is "fact" — at least, within limits. Indeed, even before the panelists spoke, I […]

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Canon Optura 200MC: Big Movies from a Small Video Camera

Thanks to the small size and form factor of MiniDV videotape, video camcorders are tinier than ever, and for several years, Canon has produced an excellent line of single-chip, small-sized MiniDV camcorders. The Optura 200MC is Canon’s latest entry into the “micro video” market and, as with previous mini models from Canon, the 200MC delivers […]

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dot-font: Not Your Usual Type

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 […]

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Designing Web Sites That Sell: Components of Commerce

Excerpted from “Designing Web Sites That Sell” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. Many commerce sites have paid the price for poor usability and interaction design. From these failures and from others’ successes, usability experts have identified some best practices for the interaction design […]

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