If you’ve ever tried to design type with underlines, you may have run into a problem where the underlines overlap the descenders of some characters and make things hard to read. You could try using all uppercase or move the underline down further, but there’s a better solution: interrupt the underline with a stroke applied […]
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(Press release) Denver, CO – May 24, 2017 – Quark Software Inc. announced today the official availability of QuarkXPress 2017, the newest version of Quark’s fully-integrated graphic design and desktop publishing software for professional print and digital production. QuarkXPress 2017 introduces new graphics and image editing capabilities, such as non-destructive image editing, and extends […]
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Did you know that InDesign has exactly 714 menu commands? OK, I totally made that up. I have no idea how many menu commands it has. You could probably figure it out, but please don’t do that, life is too short. Instead, let’s just go with 714, or feel free to substitute any large number […]
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The more you understand this unsung hero, the more productive you’ll be! Most of us take for granted the ability to search for text in a document—to locate an instance of a word or phrase each time it appears, and then change each found instance to a new word or phrase. This Find/Change feature alone […]
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This InDesign tip on the fastest way to reset a tint to 100% was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on May 18, 2017. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, keyboard shortcut, and roundups of new articles, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom […]
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A couple of months ago I started hearing rumors about a new version of PDF, often mysteriously referred to as PDF “next.” As it happened, the PDF Days Europe 2017 conference in Berlin on May 15 had an entire track dedicated to this topic. Could PDF.next be the easy-to-output-to, easy-to-distribute, low-cost digital publishing format that […]
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This CreativePro Tip of the Week for using resource libraries in Illustrator was sent to CreativeProse email subscribers on May 17, 2017. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, plus roundups of new articles, and exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom of this page, enter your email address, and […]
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This year marks my 30th anniversary as a Mac user. In the summer of ’87, I got my first Mac, along with a drawing program called FullPaint, and the seeds were planted for a career merging art and technology. And despite first learning programs like Illustrator and Photoshop on Windows, I’ve spent the bulk of […]
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New video course shows how to master Adobe’s Publish Online service.
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