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Extensis Announces Plug-ins for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS3
Free plug-ins for Extensis’ font management product line enable auto-activation of fonts within Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS3.
Adobe CS3 to be Announced on 27 March
Merrill Lynch analyst spills the beans, Adobe confirms: product to be shipped later in Spring 07
Hanging Punctuation in QuarkXPress
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 …
Hanging Punctuation in InDesign
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 …
Text to Box: One Of Quark's Little-Known Gems
A simple way to get round the need to send a font along offers flexible design possiblities
Drop Caps in QuarkXPress
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 …
Drop Caps in InDesign
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 …
Tab Leaders in QuarkXPress
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 …