I had the opportunity the other day to open a file sent to me by someone I don’t know. I realized that I went through a few ingrained procedures that I usually do when I open a strange file.
I also realized that this is a good list of things to go through for anyone who […]
It’s always frustrated me that kerning doesn’t show up in the character style dialog box as a field that I can enter a specific amount.
I often want to apply kerning to a specific glyph as part of a character style which could then be part of a Find/Change routine.
But how can you make a character […]
My niece came to me last week asking for help creating her yearbook page for school. She had a great design for filmstrips of images (how does a 17-year old know about filmstrips) that she needed to create in Photoshop.
It didn’t take us too long to assemble the images into Photoshop files. And then she […]
I just finished listening to episode 68 of InDesign Secrets podcast and the comments on the usefulness of EPS files bothered me.
So, here’s my challenge:
I will give $100 to the charity of your choice if anyone can give me a legitimate reason to save bitmapped images as EPS files.
Here are the details:
The file is created […]
I just got back from the New York InDesign User Group meeting, and I saw the greatest product for ANYONE who needs to format loads of fractions in their documents. This includes all cookbooks, hardware instructions, documentation, and fashion catalogs.
Dan Rodney, a brilliant scripter, has created a series of scripts that does much more than […]
Let’s face it.
Sometimes designers are dragged kicking and screaming away from their favorite Adobe applications, and forced to work with Microsoft Office applications such as Word or PowerPoint.
Just last night I wrote my column for InDesign magazine in Microsoft Word but needed to insert images from a folder into the Word text.
I’ve always used Word’s […]
I would like to give thanks to the good folks at Adobe who have worked hard to give us excellent software. Even with little competition, they continue to engineer new and exciting features in their products.
I give thanks to the InDesign community of designers and graphic production managers who keep pushing for even better features […]
I think David and Anne-Marie mentioned this on a podcast, but I didn’t find a post dedicated to the subject, so I thought I’d write it up.
Diane Burns (one of my favorite desktop publishing gurus) called this to my attention:
In a typeface such as Hoeflet Text, the ligatures for fi get broken under certain circumstances.
Here’s […]
It wasn’t bad, but suddenly in the middle of my all-day tutorial at the Creative Suite Conference, the previews for my Adobe Swatch Exchange files changed from file icons into swatch previews.
For instance, this is an ASE icon I have from earlier that day.
This is an ASE icon I have from earlier in the week:
But […]
read moreI can’t believe I never knew this, but on my recent trip to Australia, former-Adobe employee, and wonderful InDesign beta-coordinator Elliot Harper told me of a feature that he created for InDesign back around version 2. (That’s actually version 2, not CS2.)
Now that I’ve got some time in Iceland, after working in Dennmark (I love […]
