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Setting Type Above and Below a Circle in Adobe Illustrator
It seems like it should be simple—setting text above and below a circle, curving over the top and bottom, while still remaining upright and easily read. It seems like it should be simple, but it baffles many new and occasional Illustrator users. In this clip, you’ll learn how simple it REALLY is, once you know…
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Type Sizing Tricks in Adobe Illustrator
Learn tricks for sizing type without compromising quality, unnecessary mental acrobatics, or losing your train of thought. In this tutorial you will learn incredibly handy, master-level type sizing tricks including: – Resizing Type with the Black Arrow – Using Decimal Values – Entering Values That Are Not Points – Shortcutting Type Sizing with Percentages –…
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Installing Fonts Only for Use by Adobe Illustrator and Other Adobe Applications
For a variety of reasons you, or your I.T. department, might want to install fonts but limit their availability to only one or more Adobe Creative Cloud applications. Fonts would then be available to Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, or other Adobe applications, but not available for use in Microsoft Word or any non-Adobe application. In this…
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Drawing Starbursts and Seals – InDesign Tip of the Week
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Replacing Missing or Undesired Fonts in Adobe Illustrator Documents
Missing fonts is a common plague with inherited Adobe Illustrator documents. More common is the desire to replace typefaces or styles of fonts throughout a document without the tedious manual process of editing each type object. In this clip, you’ll see just how easy it is to replace any font—missing or just unwanted—throughout an entire…
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Doing Things with a Loaded Cursor – InDesign Tip of the Week
