Frank Romano, Professor Emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology, recently quipped, “There are now over 200,000 typefaces, most of them based on Garamond.” O.K., that’s an exercise of comic license, but it’s hard to understate the influence of the designs of 16th-century French punch cutter Claude Garamond (whose name is sometimes spelled Garamont). Looking […]
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You don’t want to have to reset numbers manually when two numbered lists collide.
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Who knew that our podcast host was quietly creating and updating an InDesignSecrets podcast site? Great for browsing and searching, bookmark it!
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Do you want bookmarks in your PDF, but don’t want to create them manually in Acrobat? The Table of Contents feature can make them for you.
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Last summer, swissmiss (aka Tina Roth Eisenberg) launched Tattly.com, an online shop for hip and humorous temporary tattoos. At the time, some of the cool “designy” tats were featured in the news here, like the Tattone swatch and the Aperture. Over the past year, the Tattly collection has expanded from an initial modest group of […]
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Adobe Inspire Magazine (formerly the Adobe Edge newsletter) is a free bi-monthly publication containing original articles and video to inform, enlighten, and inspire web designers and web developers. The latest issue (June 2012) marks the premiere of Inspire for iPad. The issue features Q&A on Adobe’s Creative Cloud, articles on Adobe Touch apps, how to […]
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ABBYY, makers of OCR, text extraction, and document conversion software have released a new app that can turn your iPhone or iPad in to all-purpose mobile scanner. ABBYY FineScanner allows users to scan documents, receipts, magazine and newspaper articles, presentation slides (including charts and graphs), and more, and then save the results as high quality […]
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Excerpted from Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book. Copyright © 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Used with permission of Pearson Education and Adobe Press. In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you can also download the excerpt as a PDF that retains the full design of the printed book. Typographic Design Lesson overview In […]
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If you’ve recently upgraded to InDesign CS6 and were used to toggling the way in which the page spreads in the Pages panel were displayed from the default vertical to horizontal, you might have wondered what happened to the “Show Vertically” setting previously found in the Panel Options in earlier versions of InDesign.
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