• 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. InPreflight gives users extensive information about all document’s fonts, colors and links and allows to quickly spot potential problems…

  • Quick Typeface Changes

    When you first show the Character palette, the Font Family field is selected, with its contents highlighted. This makes for a lightning quick way of changing typefaces–press CMD+T/CTRL+T to show the palette, and immediately type the name of the desired typeface or enough of it that InDesign can fill in the rest. Hit Return/Enter, and…

  • 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. Select two anchor points with the Direct Selection Tool, then execute the command… And there’s where the differences and similarities come into play. Join: Combines two open paths or two…

  • 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?

  • Hanging Punctuation in InDesign

    When trying to achieve a clean edge on the type in your paragraph, one must push the opening punctuation (typically an open-quote) beyond the vertical visual line of alignment–make the puncutuation “hang”. “Hanging puncutation” is astoundingly simple in InDesign. First, select the text frame, then go to the Story palette (if it’s not in your…

  • 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. If you don’t want symmetrical columns, for example if you want a wide inner column and narrow outer column, are you…