Tab Leaders (Part 2): Formatting Leaders

Last week in the first part of this back to basics series on tab leaders we discussed creating dotted tab leaders in the Tabs palette to separate columnar text. Now, let’s talk about formatting those leaders. Tab leaders–dots, underscores, hyphens, smiley faces, whatever–inserted via the Tabs Ruler are automatically the same font and color as […]

Removing the Paragraph Return at the End of Story

I don’t like to have extra stuff floating around my InDesign documents. For example, I don’t like to have blank, empty frames sitting around — I always take the time to delete them. Similarly, I like to remove the blank carriage return at the end of text frames so that the story ends without an […]

Year-Round School

This list is a work in progress that I’ll update regularly. To suggest a resource that doesn’t appear below, send me an email message ([email protected]) or post a description and URL in the VoxBox. (Look for the voxbox icon in the column to the left of this paragraph.) Creativepro.com From the homepage, you can browse […]

Freelance and Contract Opportunities Open Up As Employers Face Qualified Labor Shortages Sologig.com Survey Finds

As the unemployment rate holds steady at less than five percent and the pool of qualified labor continues to shrink, those looking to go out on their own may have more opportunities than ever. More than half (55 percent) of companies have either relied on freelance or contract workers or intend to in the future […]

Canon Introduces New Stylish Compact Photo Printer

Canon U.S.A., Inc. has announced an addition to its high-quality compact photo printer line-up – the PIXMA mini320 Compact Photo Printer. This compact photo printer will allow consumers to bring to life those images captured at important moments, such as a wedding or a child’s first day of school, in an easy-to-use and affordable fashion. […]

X-Rite to Acquire Pantone, Inc.

X-Rite Incorporated, a leading provider of color solutions for measuring, formulating, matching, and simulating color, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Pantone, Inc. for $180 million. The deal is expected to close in the fall of 2007. Pantone, Inc., headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, is an authority on color inspiration […]

Eight Years After Changing Professional Photography Forever, Nikon Does It Again By Introducing The D3 Digital SLR

Eight years after Nikon’s D1 camera changed professional digital photography forever, Nikon today introduced the D3 – a new digital SLR camera that is poised to once again revolutionize photography for professionals. The 12.1 effective megapixel D3 features Nikon’s new FX-format CMOS sensor, measuring 23.9 x 36mm, which is nearly identical to the size of […]

Illustrator Type Tricks: A Frolic on the Far Side

When it comes to distorting type, I take a pretty hard line. Just say “no,” say I, to altering character widths to make fake expanded and compressed typefaces. Likewise, it’s a no-go for fake obliques. But having drawn that line in the sand, I’m about to merrily hop over it and tell you how to […]

How to Export Basic HTML, Part 2: Images

In a previous post, How to Export Basic HTML Out of CS2, I provided a step-by-step method for exporting the stories in your layouts to HTML from within InDesign CS2 or CS3, basic formatting intact, using a little XML Tags trickery.

(Although CS3 has a dedicated File > Export > XHTML feature, you can’t get the same basic HTML mark-up that this XML-ly method produces, the mark-up that I believe most web developers need — see the extensive comments to the above post for details. If in doubt, try both methods and show them to your web team; see which they prefer. I could be wrong!)

In the first article I mentioned that it was possible to include your layout’s images in the exported HTML, but “they require just enough extra work that I’ll leave that to another post.”

And so here we are.