Color Posts

When it comes to applying transparency to live text, Quark gives you finer control than InDesign. But there ways of working around this limitation. You just have to think outside the box, er, frame. Whatever. Read the post.

Do all of your pages look the same in the pages panel? Try organizing them with color.

Have you ever tried to apply effects to a text frame, but the whole Effects panel was grayed out? Here’s why.

Water, water everywhere. Three-quarters of the planet is covered with it. Sixty percent of you is water. And with the help of a blending mode, you can add a drop or two of H2O to your designs.

You view your PDF on screen and — gasp! — tiny white lines! Disaster or not?

A few freebies for InDesign users publishing to the iPad

InDesign doesn’t allow speccing a color with hex or html color codes… until now!

A color management mystery (with a solution!)

There are three ways to change the background color of your page, depending on what you’re trying to accomplish.

Officially text frame attributes can control the fill and stroke of the frame, but they can’t control the color the text inside them… or can they?