2007 September

InDesign CS3: Mastering Design Collaboration

Whether you need to col­lab­o­rate with the per­son over the cube wall from you or across the planet, InDesign CS3 has sev­eral pow­er­ful ways to coor­di­nate joint efforts among cre­atives. In this excerpt from the new book Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print De…

Tab Leaders (Part 6): Tips and Tricks

This is the last install­ment in the back-to-basics-and-on-to-advanced “Tab Leaders” series. If you’ve been fol­low­ing the series, we began by insert­ing tabs and dot lead­ers in colum­nar text (Part 1); moved on to for­mat­ting tab leaders …

Betrayed by My Brother

Today we got a new TV, and it reminded me of some­thing I just can’t get out of my head. It’s some­thing unpleas­ant, and it keeps rat­tling around in my head.

(I’ve begun posts on this topic before, but I kept … »

Quark: 'No Comment'

Ray Schiavone talks about QuarkXPress 8, com­pet­ing with InDesign, and Quark tech sup­port return­ing to the U.S. He hints at Quark going pub­lic, but then ducks the big ques­tions. We have what Schiavone said, and what he didn’t.

Tab Leaders (Part 5): Fixed-Width Floating Tabs/Spacers

Although I had planned to make part 5 the last in this series, a reader ques­tion prompted me to push the tips and tricks out a week and cover another topic this week.
After read­ing the first few “Tab Leaders” install­ments, reader Tom asked:…

Tab Leaders (Part 4): Automatic Styling

First, in part 1, we talked about sep­a­rat­ing columns of text with dot or other kinds of lead­ers. Next, in part 2, “Formatting Leaders,” we learned that tabs and their lead­ers can be styled like any other char­ac­ter, open­ing the possibilities…

Tab Leaders (Part 3): Fill-In Blanks in Paragraph Text

In parts 1 and 2 of this series we dis­cussed insert­ing and for­mat­ting tab lead­ers in colum­nar text. The process of sep­a­rat­ing columns of text is extremely straight for­ward: hit the TAB key on your key­board, high­light the result­ing tab char­ac­ter, and, u…

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