Archives: November 2006

A frequent question is: How do I import or place one InDesign document into another to combine them?
Excellent question, but you don’t start from import or place…

Changing layer blending modes is common. So common, in fact, that there’s a shortcut to jump straight to it from your keyboard…

Yesterday we learned that, when a text frame is grouped with other objects and scaled, InDesign reflects both the original and scaled size of the type in the Font Size field…

Have you ever seen two values in the Font Size field—one embraced by parentheses? It could read something like “50 pt(24.85)”…

Hanging punctuation–the practice of letting opening punctuation “hang out” beyond the visual edge of a block of text which actually reinforces that edge–is not something that’s automatic in QuarkXPress: it takes a little bit of romancing, but it can be done…

Between QuarkXPress 6 and 7, numerous improvements were made over previous versions. Some, like the innovation of projects, OpenType support, and, of course, transparency, are huge…

PRESS RELEASE
Toronto (ON), Canada—NOVEMBER 20, 2006—Zevrix Solutions today announced the release of InPreflight, a comprehensive quality control solution for Adobe InDesign that will let users quickly and easily locate potential problems and produce error-free documents…

When you first show the Character palette, the Font Family field is selected, with its contents highlighted…

I’m often asked: What’s the difference between Join and Average?
To set the stage, Join and Average commands are on the Object > Path menu…

What do you get when a design & publishing workflow expert teams up with a developer with a history of building productivity enhancing InDesign plug-ins?

When trying to achieve a clean edge on the type in your paragraph, one must push the opening punctuation (typically an open-quote) beyond the vertical visual line of alignment–make the puncutuation “hang”…

When you create column guides in either the New Document or Margins and Columns dialogs, InDesign evenly distributes the columns between the left and right or inside and outside margins, resulting in symmetrical columns…

Like Microsoft Word, Acrobat likes to create a new window instance and taskbar entry for every document opened…

Rotating, skewing, resizing. These are common tasks. When you must transform multiple objects the same way, say, scaling a page of image frames up to specific X and Y dimensions, it can be tedious…

Free XTensions software for Suitcase Fusion, Suitcase Server and Font Reserve Server enable automatic activation in QuarkXPress 7.

pdfColorConvert, pdfCorrect, and pdfLayerMaker - well-known and established PDF tools by callas software for professional colour conversion, the correction of typical sources of printing errors, the creation of layers, and the optimization of PDF files - are now available for Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional Version 8.

Widespread acclaim for interactive Macromedia Flash (SWF) application for QuarkXPress 7
PRESS RELEASE
DENVER - November 7, 2006 - Designing interactive layouts in a flash is quickly becoming the new rage among designers…

Users can now run previous versions on same computer with QuarkXPress 7
PRESS RELEASE
DENVER - November 7, 2006 - DENVER — November 7, 2006 — Yes, it’s true…

PRESS RELEASE
CUPERTINO, California—November 8, 2006—Apple® today unveiled its new line of MacBook™ consumer notebooks that now include Intel Core 2 Duo processors…

Everyone knows that the Eyedropper Tool picks up or samples color, but did you also know it will apply color…