Whether printing or copying client-ready documents, enlarging photos for reprints, or restoring color to old photos that have faded over the years, Epson’s new "More-in-One"™ products offer more unique features than any other all-in-ones priced less than $150. The new Epson Stylus® CX5000 and CX6000, priced respectively at $99.99 and $149.99 (estimated street prices), provide […]
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You can subscribe to “Before & After” magazine in PDF or print. Click here to learn more. When you have a dynamic photo, the worst thing you can do is dilute its energy with type that gets in the way. In this how-to, master designer John McWade shows how to help a great picture roar […]
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Branislav Milic reminded us that today is InDesign’s seventh birthday! Claudia McCue agreed, writing, “Adobe demo’d K2 at Seybold Boston in March 1999, and then announced shipping at Seybold San Francisco on August 30 or 31st 1999.” After a short infancy (version 1.0) and a couple of years as a toddler (1.5), InDesign finally grew […]
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Many of us love the feature that allows us to copy Illustrator vectors and paste them into InDesign. The paths become InDesign vectors so they can be edited with InDesign’s Pen and other path-editing tools. But we’ve also run into a limitation: If our art is too complex, the copied objects print at high resolution, […]
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How many sticky fingers are in your office? It may be more than you think, according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey. Although only one-in-ten workers admitted to stealing from their employers, 38 percent of hiring managers reported they have fired employees for office theft. The survey, titled “Office Kleptomania,” was conducted in June 2006 of […]
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google Apps for Your Domain (https://www.google.com/a), a set of hosted applications for organizations that want to provide high quality communications tools to their users without the hassle of installing and maintaining software or hardware. In addition to customizing the user interface with their own branding and […]
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Canon’s new PowerShot A710 IS, A640 and A630 compact digital cameras combine functionality with photographic simplicity, all in a compact form factor that fits snugly in the hand. These 7.1, 10.0 and 8.0 megapixel cameras pack a high resolution punch to ensure that consumers’ most cherished memories are clear and crisp today and for years […]
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Beginning today, the world of consumer photo printing takes a big step forward with the introduction of three Ultra Hi-Definition photo printers from Epson that deliver the ultimate professional-level prints to the home photo enthusiast at amazing print speeds. The Ultra Hi-Definition product line consists of the Epson Stylus® Photo R260 and R380 photo printers, […]
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In our latest podcast, David and I talked about setting fractions in InDesign. Part of that discussion was how to correctly use an OpenType font’s “Automatic Fractions” feature, which is enabled by choosing Fractions from the OpenType fly-out menu in the the Character palette menu (or Control palette menu in Character mode):
Afterwards I remembered an OpenType Fractions cheat sheet I had been working on last year for my training clients but never finished. I updated it with new information and am posting here as a free download: OTFractionsGuide.pdf (400K, 5 pages).
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