Illustrator (CS2 and CS3) has a text rendering engine nearly as advanced as InDesign’s. For that reason (and because Adobe finally added underlining as a type option in Illustrator), more and more designers are using Illustrator to produce complete single-page layouts they would have otherwise done in InDesign. After all, if you need the superior…

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 Design and Production, author Pariah S. Burke will help you build an efficient,…

To break a paragraph’s link to a style sheet without losing the formatting of the paragraph itself, highlight or click the Content tool within the paragraph, and then, on the Style Sheets palette, select the No Style style sheet. The appearance of the text will be retained as local formatting. The same trick works for…

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.