2006 November

Combine Multiple InDesign Documents

A fre­quent ques­tion is: How do I import or place one InDesign doc­u­ment into another to com­bine them?
Excellent ques­tion, but you don’t start from import or place…

Layer Blending Mode Shortcut

Changing layer blend­ing modes is com­mon. So com­mon, in fact, that there’s a short­cut to jump straight to it from your keyboard…

Removing Parentheses from the Font Size Field

Yesterday we learned that, when a text frame is grouped with other objects and scaled, InDesign reflects both the orig­i­nal and scaled size of the type in the Font Size field…

Parentheses! In the Font Size Field?

Have you ever seen two val­ues in the Font Size field—one embraced by paren­the­ses? It could read some­thing like “50 pt(24.85)”…

Undo Linking and Unlinking

Between QuarkXPress 6 and 7, numer­ous improve­ments were made over pre­vi­ous ver­sions. Some, like the inno­va­tion of projects, OpenType sup­port, and, of course, trans­parency, are huge…

InPreflight for Adobe InDesign Release

PRESS RELEASE
Toronto (ON), Canada—NOVEMBER 20, 2006—Zevrix Solutions today announced the release of InPreflight, a com­pre­hen­sive qual­ity con­trol solu­tion for Adobe InDesign that will let users quickly and eas­ily locate poten­tial prob­lems and pro­duce error-free documents…

Quick Typeface Changes

When you first show the Character palette, the Font Family field is selected, with its con­tents highlighted…

Join and Average: What's the Difference?

I’m often asked: What’s the dif­fer­ence between Join and Average?
To set the stage, Join and Average com­mands are on the Object > Path menu…

DTP Tools and Pariah S. Burke Ship Page Control 1.0, A Revolutionary New Plug-in for Adobe InDesign That Breaks the One-Document One-Page-Size Paradigm

What do you get when a design & pub­lish­ing work­flow expert teams up with a devel­oper with a his­tory of build­ing pro­duc­tiv­ity enhanc­ing InDesign plug-ins?

Asymmetrical Column Guides

When you cre­ate col­umn guides in either the New Document or Margins and Columns dialogs, InDesign evenly dis­trib­utes the columns between the left and right or inside and out­side mar­gins, result­ing in sym­met­ri­cal columns…

Measurement Field Secrets

A trio of (occa­sion­ally use­ful) tips for work­ing with mea­sure­ment fields to resize and trans­form type, frames, and other objects.

Resize, Move, and Transform by Percentage 

Ever find your­self in need of cut­ting some­thing down to half, dou­bling the size of type, or blow­ing up an image frame 319.2678%? (No, I don’t think I’ve done the last […]

Too Many Acrobat Windows

Like Microsoft Word, Acrobat likes to cre­ate a new win­dow instance and taskbar entry for every doc­u­ment opened…

Transform Objects Just Once, Then Transform Again Automatically

Rotating, skew­ing, resiz­ing. These are com­mon tasks. When you must trans­form mul­ti­ple objects the same way, say, scal­ing a page of image frames up to spe­cific X and Y dimen­sions, it can be tedious…

Extensis Releases Auto-Activation XTension for its Font Management Products for QuarkXPress 7 on Intel-based Macs

Free XTensions soft­ware for Suitcase Fusion, Suitcase Server and Font Reserve Server enable auto­matic acti­va­tion in QuarkXPress 7.

New pdfToolbox2 Plug-Ins for Adobe Acrobat 8

pdf­Col­or­Con­vert, pdf­Cor­rect, and pdfLay­er­Maker — well-known and estab­lished PDF tools by callas soft­ware for pro­fes­sional colour con­ver­sion, the cor­rec­tion of typ­i­cal sources of print­ing errors, the cre­ation of lay­ers, and the opti­miza­tion of PDF files — are now avail­able for Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional Version 8.

Quark Interactive Designer making waves in design circles worldwide

Widespread acclaim for inter­ac­tive Macromedia Flash (SWF) appli­ca­tion for QuarkXPress 7
PRESS RELEASE
DENVER — November 7, 2006 — Designing inter­ac­tive lay­outs in a flash is quickly becom­ing the new rage among designers…

Quark listens: Alters licensing for previous versions

Users can now run pre­vi­ous ver­sions on same com­puter with QuarkXPress 7
PRESS RELEASE
DENVER — November 7, 2006 — DENVER — November 7, 2006 — Yes, it’s true…

Apple Unveils New MacBook With Intel Core 2 Duo Processors

PRESS RELEASE
CUPERTINO, California—November 8, 2006—Apple® today unveiled its new line of MacBook™ con­sumer note­books that now include Intel Core 2 Duo processors…

Rapidly Apply Sampled Colors

Everyone knows that the Eyedropper Tool picks up or sam­ples color, but did you also know it will apply color…

Cacidi LiveMerge significantly expands Adobe InDesign’s functionality

PRESS RELEASE
NOVEMBER 7, 2006—Newly devel­oped soft­ware from Cacidi Systems con­nects doc­u­ments in Adobe InDesign tightly with a data­base and makes lay­out work eas­ier – espe­cially with regards to large pub­li­ca­tions con­sist­ing of many pages…

Quark’s new CEO welcomes partners to corporate headquarters

OEM and System Integrators get pre­view of new train­ing facil­ity
PRESS RELEASE
DENVER — November 6, 2006 — Raymond Schiavone, Quark’s new President and Chief Executive Officer, will wel­come OEM and System Integrators to the company’s new train­ing facil­ity for dis­cus­sion of enter­prise products…

Adobe Announces Call for Entries to 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Premier Global Student Competition Recognizes the Best Student Work in Design, Film and Interactive Content for the Web; Expands to Include 30 Countries
PRESS RELEASE
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov…

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