Align or Distribute Relative to the Key Object
The Align palette has an array of buttons to align and distribute a group of objects. You can line up all their top edges, bottom edges, left or right edges; center …
The Align palette has an array of buttons to align and distribute a group of objects. You can line up all their top edges, bottom edges, left or right edges; center …
Quick recaps of interesting news bites you might have missed over the holiday week.
One of the really nice things about InDesign is its liberal policy of undo/redo. It invites experimentation. Ever experiment yourself into wishing you’d started on a master page instead of a document …
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 …
pdfColorConvert, pdfCorrect, and pdfLayerMaker – well-known and established PDF tools by callas software for professional colour conversion, the correction of typical sources of printing errors, the creation of layers, and the optimization of PDF files – are now available for Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional Version 8.
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 …