Between QuarkXPress 6 and 7, numerous improvements were made over previous versions. Some, like the innovation of projects, OpenType support, and, of course, transparency, are huge. Others are more subtle, like …
When you first show the Character palette, the Font Family field is selected, with its contents highlighted. This makes for a lightning quick way of changing typefaces–press CMD+T/CTRL+T to show the …
I’m often asked: What’s the difference between Join and Average? To set the stage, Join and Average commands are on the Object > Path menu. Select two anchor points with …
Like Microsoft Word, Acrobat likes to create a new window instance and taskbar entry for every document opened. This is no big deal while reading a single PDF, but if you typically …
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 …
Scaling type horizontally with the appropriate field on the Character or Control palettes is easy and precise, but not necessarily ideal when trying to scale to fit a particular space or …
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 …
Masking–selecting parts of an image to isolate changes–is a constant part of any Photoshop work. We select with the Marquee Tool, the Magic Wand Tool, quick mask mode, the Select Color …
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 …
Tab leaders are 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, …
