Extensis Ships Free Adobe InDesign CS3 Plug-in for Suitcase Server

Extensis, a brand of Celartem, Inc., today released a free plug-in for Suitcase Server X1 to provide the world’s most advanced font activation and deactivation for Adobe InDesign CS3 documents. The plug-in ensures any time users open an InDesign project; fonts are automatically and accurately activated. The plug-in is available now for download from the […]

Image Trends, Inc. Announces Two New Plug-In's, PearlyWhites and ShineOff

Image Trends, the provider of innovative digital imaging tools, today announces PearlyWhites™, an automatic teeth whitening software program and ShineOff™ an automatic software  program that removes shine from face and skin areas. Initially, the Adobe® Photoshop® plug-ins will be available for Windows based machines.  As with the Image Trends Fisheye-Hemi Plug-In, the Mac versions of […]

Working with Color

These video tutorials are from lynda.com’s ” Working with Color” video training series. Maybe a client saddled you with a palette of colors you hate. Or perhaps you want to understand the theory behind things such as Illustrator CS3’s Live Color and Adobe’s kuler. No matter your motivation, this video tutorial will help you understand […]

Measure Distance with Ruler Guides

Ever need to know the distance between two ruler guides on your page? No need to use the Measure tool, or to drag out a temporary frame that snaps to both guides and then look at its width or height measure. InDesign already knows the distance between any two ruler guides, and can easily show you… but not in the Control panel.

Using GREP to Make a Character Lowercase

On another post, Eugene wrote: “All the section numbers within text had to be written as s123, but some wisecrack decided to to put them in as S123.” This was clearly a case in which there was a “regular pattern of text” and therefore for find/change with GREP. But he was having trouble figuring out […]

Changing Kerning/Tracking Increments

James wrote: Is there any way to track incrementally? That is, I’d like to be able to input, say for example, ‘2.5’ into the kerning or tracking field. But indesign changes this to ‘3’. Sometimes 3 is too much!

No, I don’t think there’s any way to input fractions of units. However, In InDesign, each unit is 1/1000th of an em space. So, if you’re in 24-pt text, one unit is .024 pt (about .0003 inches). I think it’s…

Digital Anarchy Releases ToonIt! for Turning Film/Video Footage Into a Cartoon Look

Digital Anarchy, a leading provider of cost-effective special effects software for Adobe and Apple products, today announced the release of ToonIt! for Film/Video. ToonIt! 1.0 will reliably and easily create cartoon-like images from film and video footage, freeing artists from time consuming techniques such as hand painting and rotoscoping. The filters use advanced algorithms from […]

WhatTheyThink.com Launches Printing Industry Blog

WhatTheyThink.com, the leading online media organization serving the printing and publishing industry, today announced the launch of PrintCEO Blog (https://PrintCEOblog.com), a online forum for the printing and graphic arts industries. Lead by Adam Dewitz, consultant and writer, PrintCEO Blog also features the informal commentary from WhatTheyThink.com’s columnists and contributors including Steve Aranoff, Robert Fitzpatrick , […]

Zevrix Solutions Releases InPreflight 2 for Adobe InDesign

Zevrix Solutions is proud to announce the release of version 2.0 of InPreflight, a comprehensive quality control solution for Adobe InDesign that lets users quickly and easily locate potential problems and produce error-free documents. InPreflight provides a robust, fast, user-friendly and affordable preflight solution for service providers, printers, ad agencies, designers and publishing houses. InPreflight […]