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Episode 305

Podcast 305

• Design & Marketing Summit• All About Measurements • Not Shifted

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    • InDesign 18.21 release
    • CreativePro Week 2023 June 4–9, Phoenix, Arizona (and online!)
    • NEW Design + Marketing Summit (online, July 27–28) 
      Awesome lineup, including Jesus Ramirez, Von Glitschka, Amy Balliet, and new speakers incluing the amazing Jim Krause, Brodi-Rose Newsome, Kyle Hamrick
    • Creative Pro Magazine issue 18 feature story is about motion and video in Photoshop! 
  • All about Measurements: You're bound to learn a few tips
  • Obscure InDesign Feature: Not Shifted

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More on Measurements

  • Changing InDesign’s Default Ruler Measurements: link
  • InDesign Measurements Changing Unexpectedly: link
  • Scaling an Object to an Exact Size: link
  • Measuring Angles: link
  • Measurement Field Secrets: link
  • Measure Distance with Ruler Guides: link
  • Set the Size of Text Exactly (based on cap or x-height): link
  • A Great Script Lets You Add Measurements in InDesign or Illustrator: link

 


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  1. Barb Binder
    April 29, 2023

    I was listening to the two of wondering aloud why you can change the horizontal and vertical rules independently of each other. It jogged loose a long lost memory of an early PageMaker classroom exercise where we were instructed to chose Custom to set the vertical ruler to match the baseline grid. A-M guessed that might be the reason, and I think she’s right, though as much as I use the baseline grid, I’ve never felt the need to make the ruler match the grid increments since teaching that particular lesson.

    1. David Blatner
      April 29, 2023

      Thank you, Barb! Yes, I personally believe this is an “Olav Martin Kvern” feature… that it, I think he used the vertical ruler like that in PageMaker for book design in the 90s.

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