What an incredible year for InDesign it has been! No matter what flavor of InDesign CC or CS you use, we have published over 200 new articles for you this year, containing hundreds of tips, tricks, videos, and more. You can find our full archive here, but I’m guessing that you’d probably rather focus in on the […]
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What a year 2015 has been for us at CreativePro.com and for you, our readers! Thank you for your continued support. A quick recap: Over the past 12 months we’ve published over 200 original articles that covered your favorite topics: design, typography, photography, color, layout, and the business of graphic design. Also, CreativePro.com freshened its design, added […]
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Our editor in chief, Mike Rankin, is out on holiday this week, which means I get to write anything I want! I can feel the power pulsing in my typing fingers, the chance to finally break out and express how I truly feel without fear of censorship or criticism… Yes! And what I want to […]
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I spend a lot of time helping people troubleshoot their InDesign files. I love trying to figure out a good mystery, so I’m always up for the challenge. One question I have been asked for years has to do with onscreen image quality. The question usually goes something like, “My images look really jaggedy onscreen, […]
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Before Picture Elements (“pixels” for short) were a gleam in some IBM engineer’s eye, image capture involved gelatin-coated film, darkrooms and an array of messy, smelly chemicals of varying degrees of toxicity, but we loved it. Back then, “image capture” was called “taking photographs.” (And, by the way, get off my lawn.) “Analog” photography evolved […]
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What the heck?! I opened an InDesign document and got this Missing Fonts dialog box that tells me “Myriad Pro Nothing” is missing! Nothing? Not regular, italic, bold, semibold… just Nothing! There is no such thing as the Nothing style in the Myriad Pro family, of course. There is actually a lovely font called Nothing, but […]
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I put off learning Illustrator way back when, simply because I thought I had to first master the Pen tool. Then I heard someone say eight magic little words, “You don’t have to use the Pen tool!” Wait, what? Once I let go of the concept of knowing how to create perfect paths, it was […]
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Chris wrote: Anyone know if there’s a keyboard shortcut for ‘end nested style’ character? While there is no default built-in keyboard shortcut (KBSC) for that character, you can make your own really easily! In fact, if you often find yourself needing any character in the Type > Insert Special Characters submenu (or any other menu […]
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