• Illustrator CC Typography

    Illustrator CC Typography

    From logo design to illustration, from posters to signage, from brochures to menus, your text is meant to be read, to convey a message. It can’t do that if it isn’t legible, readable, and well-styled. Making it so is the art of typography. In Illustrator CC Typography Pariah Burke will teach you all the skills…

  • A Brief History of the War (Between QuarkXPress and InDesign)

    A Brief History of the War (Between QuarkXPress and InDesign)

    Quark VS InDesign.com chronicles the struggle of encumbent desktop publishing application, QuarkXPress, the king of the magazine, newspaper, catalog, advertising, and all other global print publishing hills since the early-1990s, against the new challenger to all its titles, InDesign, Adobe’s original, from-the-ground-up layout application born of the minds of those who created PostScript, desktop computer…

  • Top 5 Pain Points Tripping Up Your QuarkXPress to InDesign Game

    [su_note note_color=”#deff96″]In L.A. they’re throwing “Innie” parties; flashing an InDesign CS2 CD-ROM is required to part the velvet ropes at SoHo nightclubs, and; in Dallas, even the manliest of designing men is sporting a butterfly tattoo. Learning InDesign is hip. It’s happening. It’s now. InDesign is the new black.[/su_note] Coming from proficiency in QuarkXPress, however,…

  • 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 differently than the text they separate (Part 2); created in-line, fill-in-the-blank-style tab spaces (Part 3); used the automated formatting…

  • 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: I would like to add words to a text frame and…

  • 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 of creative column separators. Last week part 3 focused on using custom text underlines…