Have you ever placed a vertical image, and wondered why InDesign insists on making a horizontal frame? If you’ve rotated your digital camera to take a photo, the image may ‘remember’ the original camera orientation. So, while it displays vertically in Bridge, Photoshop, and InDesign (the way you saw the scene), under the hood it […]
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The end of the year is a time to pause and reflect. And of course, it’s a time for making lists! So I thought it’d be fun to find out which were the most popular CreativePro articles of 2012. Interestingly, some articles remain freakishly popular many years after they were written. The “long tail” is […]
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I generally consider 12 images to be the minimum necessary to constitute a weekly “theme” here at Scanning Around With Gene, though I will admit to applying the word “theme” pretty loosely a couple of times over the years. But mostly I hold certain images until I gather enough to do the topic justice – […]
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This is a fictionalized version of my exploration of a recent client’s files: They’re finally making the switch from QuarkXPress, and I’m going to help them make the leap. They’ve used Markzware’s fine Q2ID plug-in to convert their old QuarkXPress files to InDesign. Unfortunately, all the resident evil (pronounced ‘eeev-yil’) of the original files has […]
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Everyone loves to double-click? but you might be surprised at what you get when you double-click on a tool!
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InDesign’s highlighter style trick is terrific, but here’s a couple of ways to make it even better
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The holidays are almost over, but winter’s just begun. So if you’re in need of some snowflakes for a seasonal design, check out an oldie but a goodie: the free snowflake font from P22 Type Foundry. Be advised the font is 10 years old and does not come in a cross-platfrom OpenType version, so you’ll […]
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Quark Inc. was founded more than 30 years ago, and their flagship product QuarkXPress was released more than 25 years ago. In recent years, many graphic designers have switched to Adobe’s InDesign for their page layout needs, but both Quark and QuarkXPress have continued to develop and thrive — especially in the publishing markets (both […]
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Each installment “Around the World in ePublishing” looks at a different digital publication—sometimes an ebook, sometimes an e-textbook, sometimes a digital magazine or catalog. With each publication we’ll examine the techniques and technologies used, the good and bad choices the designer and publisher made, and sometimes even how to incorporate the same features and effects […]
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