Text Posts

Flags For Our Fathers

July 2 2009 • 11:09 AM

Using a combination of line styles and creativity can be a lot of fun when you are making typographic flags.

Get Your Footnote Number Back

June 24 2009 • 4:21 AM

Deleted one of your footnote numbers? Don’t panic! Here’s a (very obscure) way to get it back.

Setting up a Ghosted Background Behind Text

June 22 2009 • 9:14 AM

Need to lighten up an area behind some text? No problem with this simple and effective technique.

Bridge Font Blind Spot

June 18 2009 • 6:53 PM

Could Bridge be a little “nearsighted” when it comes to seeing the fonts some InDesign files need?

Accidental Text Stroking is a thing of the Past with CS4

June 11 2009 • 8:19 AM

Don’t you hate it when you accidentally put a stroke on your text? CS4 helps prevent this from happening.

Swap Names Around with GREP and Find/Change

June 5 2009 • 1:21 AM

Joe needs to convert all his captions in the form LastName_FirstName.jpg into “FirstName LastName.” It’s way easier than you’d think.

The Burns Effect: Using Anchored Objects in Nonintuitive Ways

June 4 2009 • 3:11 PM

Here’s a trick from Diane Burns that lets you make a text frame expand (or shrink) horizontally, depending on how much text you put in it.

Making a Vertical Line to the Side of a Paragraph

June 4 2009 • 12:28 AM

Need to draw a vertical bar along the left side of some text? Here are three techniques you should try!

PDFs Placed into CS4 Documents May Drop Characters When Exported to PDF.

May 29 2009 • 12:30 PM

Issue affects PDFs viewed or printed in Acrobat or Reader version 8 and earlier.

InDesign Eye Candy, part 3: Punch-Outs, Stickers, and Rips

May 28 2009 • 8:27 AM

Eye candy punchouts, stickers, rips, and burns.