February, 2015 | CreativePro Network

How to Control Point and Area Type in Illustrator

When working in Adobe Illustrator, has your text ever seemed to behave erratically? Have you ever expected it to do one thing, only to have it do something else, seemingly at whim? Consider the following… Resizing the bounding box of your text will usually change the size of the text container and rewrap the text […]

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 130

InDesign… the final frontier… this blog records humankind’s adventure through the InDesign galaxy. This is Captain Blatner’s log… stardate 49201 (or something like that). Here are some InDesign-related links I feel all InDesign users (and Romulans) should know about: Curious about what’s new in InDesign CC 2014.2? Here’s a video by some crazy guy named […]

Lost Type Recovered from the Thames

The tale of loss—and eventual recovery, a century later—of the Doves Type typeface is like something out of an Agatha Christie novel. In 1909 Thomas Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, partners in Doves Press in London, had a falling out which resulted in the dissolution of the company. Mr. Cobden-Sanderson apparently had an issue with his […]

Table Tips

Recently, it’s been brought to my attention that Tables in both InCopy and InDesign can be a bit of a challenge for new and seasoned users alike. The former especially whom are likely accustomed to working with tables in Microsoft Word, discover very quickly that tables in InCopy definitely don’t work the same. An additional […]

Page Layout, Pre-Photoshop: Watch the Video

Photoshop is celebrating its 25th anniversary — that’d be its silver anniversary, if it were celebrating a marriage. (And I guess it is, in a way — the marriage of pixels and people who love them.) Lynda.com published a beautiful site this week, called 25PS, dedicated to the honor and the glory that is Photoshop. Scroll […]

InDesign Template: Newsletter Layout

The design used in this template is called “Investment Management,” but we like it because it lends itself to so many types of organizational newsletters. Plus, it affords you a lot of flexibility for arranging different types of stories in the same publication. Color, type, and formatting for sidebars, feature stories, graphics and captions are ready for you to update with your own text.

Extensis Launches Next Generation Font Menu for Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

PORTLAND, Ore.—February 18, 2015—Extensis® today announced Suitcase Attaché™, a next generation font menu that unleashes the power of typography in Microsoft® Word and Microsoft PowerPoint®. Available for download today, Suitcase Attaché connects users to all their fonts in a new dynamic panel where they can browse preview and apply fonts directly in these popular applications. Suitcase […]

TypeTalk: Trending Fonts

Looking back at the past year’s most popular font offerings is a good way to view a typographic moment in time, a snapshot of typography trends. A look at the best sellers reported by foundries and font resellers reinforces, for the most part, what we can observe in printed and digital media all around us. […]