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Free plug-ins for Extensis’ font management product line enable auto-activation of fonts within Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS3.

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Hanging punctuation–the practice of letting opening punctuation “hang out” beyond the visual edge of a block of text which actually reinforces that edge–is not something that’s automatic in QuarkXPress: it takes a little bit of romancing, but it can be done. To hang, for instance, an opening quote in a paragraph in QuarkXPress, do the…

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…

A simple way to get round the need to send a font along offers flexible design possiblities

Styling drop caps for your introductory paragraphs using QuarkXPress is straightforward; the trick here is knowing where to find the place where it’s speficied. As it happens, it’s in the Paragraph Attributes dialog box. Place your insertion point into the paragraph you want a drop cap in. Bring up the Format pane of the Paragraph…

Drop caps–those big, attention-getting glyphs that arrest the eye and bring it right into the beginning of your story–are a quick and simple thing to achieve in InDesign. The drop caps are controlled by settings made in the Paragraph palette. If it’s not open, bring it up with Mac: CMD-OPT-T, Win: CTRL-ALT-T or Menu: Window>Type…

Tab leaders–the lines of filler characters in printed lists and tables of contents that connect the aligned content on one side to the aligned content on the other–are easily obtainable in QuarkXPress. After setting up and formatting the list, bring up the Tabs pane of the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Mac: CMD-SHIFT-T, Win: CTRL-SHIFT-T, or…