Cell Spacing in Tables? Sorta.

Two attributes of table cells have a long history in the web design field: “cellpadding” (equivalent to InDesign’s “cell inset” or “text frame inset”) and “cellspacing,” which is the amount of space in between the cells. This HTML Code Tutorial page has a decent explanation of the two, with illustrations.

As far as I know, no page layout program with a Table function has a cell spacing feature, including InDesign. So whenever I hear someone ask

TypeTalk: Answers to Your Type Questions

TypeTalk is a monthly question-and-answer column on typography. You ask, and noted type authority Ilene Strizver answers! Just send your questions to [email protected]. Small Cap Fakers Q. What is the best proportion for creating small caps with design software? I don’t always like my software’s small cap default, as the proportion is so drastic. A. […]

Adding Space Between Paragraphs, Not Lines

Michael wrote: I’m using the Baseline Grid to keep the lines aligned between verso/recto pages, but with my keep options turned off I get orphaned/widowed lines every once in a while. Turning on Keep Options fixes the orphan/widow problem, but makes it so that every once in a while I get one page one or two lines shorter than than the one next to it. While the orphans & widows are typographically annoying, I think the uneven page endings look careless and unprofessional (especially when the difference is two lines).

There’s a third option that I tried: If I set the master text frames to be “vertically justified”, the top and bottom lines always line up, and I can set the keep options to get rid of widows and orphans. The problem with this is that it ignores the leading and gives uneven baselines across the spread, which looks odd when printed out. So my question is this: What do I do?

You know that old one-liner: “Fast, good, or cheap: pick any two”? It’s kind of like that. Unfortunately, there is no great answer to this, but here’s one thing you might want to try…

Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design Launches Innovative Series of Guides to Help Visual Design Students Compete for Jobs a

Building an ever-evolving professional portfolio is fundamental to getting work in the design industry. But how do you craft a professional-level presentation of work when you’re still learning the ropes? Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design ("Sessions") has responded to this and other challenges identified through the members of DesignSessions™, its industry-leading online community […]

Jupitermedia's Step InDesign Design Magazine Calls for Entries for Its Annual Web Design Competition

Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), announced today the call for entries for the STEP Best of Web Design 2007, a select Web design competition being conducted by the award-winning STEP inside design magazine. Each winner’s work will be featured in the STEP Best of Web annual (September/October 2007), the only design annual of its kind. "The […]

Prepress Training Solution Adds QuarkXPress 7 Advanced Course to Online Training Library

Prepress Training Solution, the premier online training provider to the graphic arts industry, announces the release of the QuarkXPress 7: Advanced online training course. The addition of Quark XPress 7 Advanced to the Prepress and Graphics Library represents Prepress Training Solution’s 42nd addition to its interactive online library of software training tutorials. The new QuarkXPress […]

Twenty Years of the Canon EOS System Leads to this Moment: Canon Releases the EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR

Canon, the worldwide market leader in digital cameras, celebrates the 20th anniversary of its top-selling EOS single lens reflex camera system by announcing the EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR, the world’s fastest digital SLR camera. At 10 frames per second, the 10.1 megapixel EOS-1D Mark III digital SLR can fire huge motor-driven bursts of 110 […]

Corbis Selects Location for Preservation of Renowned Sygma Collection

Corbis (www.corbis.com) today announced that, beginning in 2008, the Sygma collection will have a new long-term home at an advanced, climate controlled preservation facility to be built near Paris, France. The announcement is the next phase of Corbis’ “Sygma Preservation and Access Initiative,” a project that began in 2004 to ensure that the collections’ 50 […]

Lynda.com Announces First Phase of Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One Training

lynda.com, the company specializing in self-paced training in digital media and design, today released the first part of Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One with Deke McClelland. Adobe made history last December by releasing the first-ever public beta of a future version of Photoshop. To help the digital imaging community learn how to use the new Photoshop […]