Saving Printing Costs on VDP in InDesign
Most variable data publishing projects include some variable content and some static content. By printing the two separately, you can save on printing costs. This clip will help you conceptualize how to separate them, accomplish the separation, and plan for the most efficient and cost-effective methods of printing variable and static content.
Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC: Data Merge & Variable Data Printing: http://abbrv.it/vidIDVDP
Using Warichu in Japanese Text - Illustrator Typography
https://youtu.be/dwPR_QuKthQ
Warichu—or split annotation—is the East Asian typographic method of setting secondary or less important text in smaller double or triple lines. Adobe Illustrator CC has full support for East Asian typography, including robust Warichu options. In this tutorial clip from the 50-minute module (chapter) on “Working with Asian and Indic Type” in Pariah Burke’s Illustrator CC Typography video course, you will learn all the ins and outs of setting Warichu text in Adobe Illustrator CC.
Updating Data After Merging with and without XML in InDesign
Most data merge operations create the merged documents and then never update them again. Other projects, like point-of-sale signage, mailers, and a host of other VDP designs, need to be able to update, alter, and even completely replace the data set after merging using a Live Merge document. This clip is a teaser that shows you exactly how a Live Merge document works.
Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC: Data Merge & Variable Data Printing: http://abbrv.it/vidIDVDP
Using Middle Eastern & South Asian Composers in Adobe Illustrator
When working in Hindi, Punjabi, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or any of two dozen other Middle Eastern or South Asian languages, you’ll want to make use of the correct paragraph composition engine in Adobe Illustrator CC. This tutorial will show you how to do just that.
Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, Illustrator CC Typography.
Pariah Burke
Digital content and publishing expert, author, and trainer with 20+ years empowering creative professionals through customized software instruction. Author of InDesign Masterclass: Type & Tables and ePulishing with InDesign.