Removing Parentheses from the Font Size Field

Yesterday we learned that, when a text frame is grouped with oth­er objects and scaled, InDesign reflects both the orig­i­nal and scaled size of the type in the Font Size field. …

Parentheses! In the Font Size Field?

Have you ever seen two val­ues in the Font Size field–one embraced by paren­the­ses? It could read some­thing like “50 pt(24.85)”. If you haven’t yet noticed such an unex­pect­ed thing, you …

Phantom Missing Fonts

If you’ve ever been greet­ed by the Missing Fonts dia­log upon open­ing a QuarkXPress doc­u­ment and been unable to find where the miss­ing fonts are used, this tip is for you. Along …

300+ Free Halloween Fonts

In hon­or of this mon­th’s annu­al fright night, Quark VS InDesign​.com scoured the globe, peek­ing into every dark cor­ner, every creepy clos­et, and under the bed for free fonts–living or dead. We found over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–and they’re all free!

Embed Fonts in Save Page As EPS

One fea­ture of QuarkXPress around since the ear­ly days is Save Page As EPS, locat­ed on the File menu. The major draw­back to using this fea­ture, though, has always been …