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Tab Leaders (Part 2): Formatting Leaders

Last week in the first part of this back to basics series on tab lead­ers we dis­cussed cre­at­ing dot­ted tab lead­ers in the Tabs palette to sep­a­rate colum­nar text. Now, let’s talk about for­mat­ting those lead­ers.
Tab leaders–dots, underscores, …

Switching Between Preview and Normal Modes

With the new sin­gle col­umn Tools panel in InDesign CS3, the sep­a­rate but­tons for Preview and Normal modes have become one button…

Underline Options Shortcut

Opening the Underline Options in InDesign means show­ing the Character palette/panel and select­ing Underline Options from that panel’s fly­out menu. It’s not very con­ve­nient or expediant…

Tab Leaders (Part 1): Separating Columns of Text with Dots

Way back in Podcast 25 lis­ten­ers asked ques­tions about under­lin­ing text and cre­at­ing tab lead­ers. After hear­ing the same ques­tions recently from col­leagues, I thought the topic was worth revis­it­ing.
Vanessa from Australia asked:

I have a name, address…

Stop Unembeddable Font Warnings

Despite the near impos­si­bil­ity of extract­ing embed­ded fonts from PDFs, some type foundries still pre­vent their fonts from being embed­ded in PDFs…

Quark Responds to 'Quark Insider'

Sunday, a Quark insider alleged lay­offs, fis­cal irre­spon­si­bil­ity, and slump­ing sales. Wednesday Quark responded. I spoke with Ray Schiavone, pres­i­dent and CEO of Quark, about recent lay­offs in the U.S. and India, about the state of Quark’s finances, and about whether QuarkXPress 7 is selling.

Quark to Open Silicon Valley Office

New Santa Clara Office Will Supplement Sales, Customer Support and Product Development

Quark Insider: Sales Low, Spending Up, Employees Out

Highly placed Quark insider alleges sud­den lay­offs, irre­spon­si­ble spend­ing, and alarm­ingly low sales.

Change Typefaces without Using the Mouse

Here’s a quick tip for chang­ing the font of text quickly in all ver­sions of InDesign and InCopy–and with­out ever touch­ing the mouse.
Let’s begin by estab­lish­ing two facts: First, CMD+T/CTRL+T opens or closes the Character panel/palett…

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