A fellow Adobe trainer, whom I met recently in Oslo, told me the following story: It was New Year’s Eve and he was making mulled wine late in the evening. One of the things he was adding was an orange with cloves. As he was pushing the cloves into the orange, he thought that it […]
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By nature, book publishers don’t have the same kind of workflow or InDesign page structure as magazine and newspaper publishers.” Book publishers have longer production deadlines and knowingly embrace a linear (my turn, your turn) workflow between editorial, design and production departments. Magazine and newspaper publishers have shorter timelines and need a collaborative (work on […]
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Last week was “pi approximation day” (22/7) so I’ve been thinking a lot about estimates, approximations, or “ballpark figures.” I guess that’s why I’m comfortable with this series of articles being called “This Week in InDesign Articles.” Obviously it doesn’t truly come out weekly, and the articles aren’t all from a single week. It’s really […]
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It seems these days everyone is wearing some sort of fitness or activity tracker—and boasting about their achievements on social media. And with Apple almost certainly launching some kind of wrist-bound device very soon, wearable tech has become quite the buzzword. Many of the devices on the market are just high-tech pedometers that link up […]
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InDesign offers you two great features for re-using page items: snippets and libraries. So how do choose which one is right for your needs? Simple, just watch Anne-Marie Concepcion’s latest InDesign Secrets video on lynda.com. In the video, Anne-Marie covers all the important details of working with snippets and libraries, their strengths and weaknesses, and most importantly […]
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Before CS6, Adobe had different icons for each version of its applications. So it was relatively easy to tell which version you were using to open a file. Starting with CS6, Adobe stopped changing the icons for each version. So it was easy to get confused as to which version you very using. Today I decided to […]
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Adobe recently released their 101st Adobe Originals typeface and it has been quite the project. The Source Han Sans open source OpenType typeface is a massive pan-CJK font, containing both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean glyphs. This herculean feat of the font world was a collaboration of not only Adobe, but Google—who is […]
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Most designers and related creative professionals are familiar with the terms Italic and Oblique, yet confusion does exists on the part of many regarding the differences between the two. While each refers to a slanted, or angled design, there are important distinctions between both terms, which in turn can influence their potential usage. Italics are […]
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Did you ever wish you could fill multi-line text with a gradient, so that the gradient is applied to each line separately, like so: If you target the fill of the text and just try dragging with the Gradient tool, the gradient gets applied once to all the text in the frame. Instead, take advantage of […]
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