• Time to Make the Calendars — Faster!
• Understanding Frames: Points vs. Paths
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Run Length
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Let’s take a little break from the usual fare of tips, tricks, scripts, and shortcuts, to consider a topic that’s probably a bit over your heads—literally (unless you are reading this in an airplane)—human flight. When we fly, we put up with everything from baggage fees to body scanners to get where we need to […]
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How big is a pixel? It’s widely thought that a pixel is the smallest dot that screen hardware can physically display: One pixel is one pixel. That was safe to assume for over a quarter century because the pixel density of most of our screens was stuck between 72 and 120 pixels per inch (ppi) […]
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OK, I realize this is kind of meta, since it’s a CreativePro article about an image for a CreativePro article, but as I was preparing the slideshow image for Erica Gamet’s story on Awesome Autumnal Assets, I thought, “this would make a good tip.” So here it is, how to recognize and execute a small, […]
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The next issue of InDesign Magazine is coming soon and the theme is…(drumroll please)…workarounds! So it’s only appropriate (yet entirely coincidental) that in the latest InDesign Secrets video at lynda.com, David Blatner shares one of the most amazing workarounds you’re likely to ever see. He shows how to build a table of contents with any text (not just the text that’s […]
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InDesign offers five kinds of Text Wrap: No Text Wrap, Wrap Around Bounding Box, Wrap Around Object Shape, Jump Object, and Jump to Next Column. Most of the time, one of these will give you the right results for your layout. But once in a while, you might find that none of them gives you the exact look that […]
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Fall—or autumn if you prefer—when days get shorter, evening air feels crisper, and everything is pumpkin-spiced. It’s lurking around the corner, can you smell it? Time to grab the fleece jacket, order up an apple cider, and check out some free—or very inexpensive—typefaces and goodies with an autumnal flair to them. What is it about […]
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I was just working on some artwork for The InDesign Conference and I exported a PDF and some of my text disappeared: Where did the “The” and “Conference” go?! I exported the PDF several more times with different settings. I confirmed that the text (which had been converted to outlines so I could make some […]
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