Compared to adjusting tab stops in paragraph styles, adjusting them in tabbed text is a cakewalk: just open the Tabs panel (Type > Tabs) and start dragging tab stops around. The panel snaps to the top of the text frame (assuming there’s room for it) and adjusts its tab ruler width to match the text […]
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About a year ago, when InDesign CS3 arrived, it brought with it a host of new ways to create transparency effects, using the new Effects panel. However, the question always comes up, “But will it print?” At the same time that the Effects panel arrived, the solution to the printing problem arrived as well. This […]
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Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced the release of Toon Boom Studio Express 4. With this release, Studio Express 4 increases your ability to easily create eye-catching animation, all within a more user friendly interface. Feature highlights include: * New flexible docking user interface * Calligraphic line styles for a unique animation look * […]
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KODAK Gallery, a leading online photo service with 70 million members worldwide, today announced the launch of its Canadian site www.kodakgallery.ca. Canadian customers can now create high-quality photo products and prints and conveniently pick up orders at any Best Buy Canada and Future Shop store location. To celebrate the launch, KODAK Gallery is currently offering […]
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Apple today announced that Final Cut Server, a powerful software solution for media asset management and workflow automation, is now shipping. A scaleable server application, Final Cut Server automatically catalogs large collections of assets, allows searching across multiple disks and SAN volumes and enables viewing, annotation and approval of content from anywhere using a PC […]
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E.R. wrote: After seeing your corner-only border segment, it reminded me of a problem that I hadn’t been able to solve: I want to make the right- and left-hand side of the text frame a square bracket so that anything I typed into it would elongate the brackets as I typed. Alas, I’ve never found a solution.
I banged on this problem for a bit, too, and was about to give up when Sander Pinkse from the Netherlands sent me the answer from out of the blue. Not only that, but he showed how to make a rounded-corner table (sort of), which many people have also requested!
Let’s do the brackets first…
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A record 56 percent of the paper consumed in the United States was recovered for recycling in 2007, it was announced today by the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA). “Paper recycling is a great American success story,” said Patrick J. Moore, chairman and CEO of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, an AF&PA member, the world’s largest […]
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Create Magazine is officially accepting entries for its 2008 Create Awards – one of the top creative competitions for professionals and students in advertising, film and video, motion graphics, graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting. The 2008 Create Awards (www.thecreateawards.com) has once again doubled its prize pool from last year. More than $125K […]
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Students can obtain QuarkXPress(r) 7 (plus Quark Interactive Designer(tm) and Quark XPert Tools Pro) totally FREE of charge. They can use it at home for the full academic year, provided their school purchases the Quark School Unlimited User License priced at £1,750 excluding VAT. This offer is only available until 30th April 2008. Here’s how […]
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