Last month, I moved from the green and cloudy Portland, Oregon, to Phoenix, Arizona, the Valley of the Sun. The transition inspired me to devote two installments of Free For All to contrasting collections of environment-inspired textures, photos, Photoshop Actions, and other freebies. Last month I focused on the beauty of the American Northwest. In […]
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Ebooks. Digital magazines. Interactive PDFs and SWFs. They’re all relatively new creatures, which means there are a lot of questions surrounding the technology, from creation to distribution. Mogo Media hopes to answer those questions, at least in part, with its two-day ePublishing Conference. It will be held September 13 and 14, 2011, in Chicago, IL. […]
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Video formats for digital publishing can be confusing, but using the H.264 format seems to work best most of the time.
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Using the CS5 Split Columns feature causes InDesign to ignore any “Keep Options” assigned to the text. Here’s a workaround.
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Noise in a photograph isn’t always bad. Occasionally, those colored speckles that are most common in the shadows can add a gritty, grainy mood that enhances the image. But usually, you want to get rid of noise. When you’re trying to fix photographs with a lot of noise, the ideal is to remove that noise […]
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The Arabic Software company has updated its ArabicXT XTension to support QuarkXPress 9. ArabicXT lets you create and print bi-directional layouts in the Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Jawi, and Kurdish languages, all from within QuarkXPress. ArabicXT Fonts samples are included as part of the $430 ArabicXT purchase price.
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Recently, I spoke with Ben Watson, principal customer experience strategist at Adobe, about his company’s new “Digital Enterprise Platform”. Ben is a well-spoken, sharp guy, easy to listen to, yet it often seemed like he was using a foreign language: ECM, speeds and feeds, ERP, network conditions, RDBMS… I’m afraid I just don’t speak Enterprise. […]
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You old-thyme compugraphic users should know that InDesign can make auto-tabs, using a little used white space character
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Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, April/May 2011 (issue 41). In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you can also download the excerpt as a PDF that retains the full design of the magazine. Fonts are much more than merely letters and numbers. Scroll down the glyph menu, and you’ll discover an eclectic assortment of […]
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