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Adobe InDesign CC 2015.4; Library Filtering

Using InDesign to create your publication is making your life so much easier. The photo shoot for your upcoming article went well. Then you realize in all the pictures taken there is one shot that didn’t happen. Timing, lighting, location…whatever it was, the image isn’t …

How to Use Data Merge in Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign Data MergeWatch this video on YouTube In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to merge data from a spreadsheet, worksheet or text file into an Adobe InDesign document. Using data merge, you can create custom post cards, mailings or form letters in Adobe InDesign. …

Paragraph Shading in Adobe InDesign CC 2015

Select only the paragraphs you want shaded. Having a background color for a paragraph in InDesign has always been possible. Just use the selection tool and set the fill color to the background color of your choice. If there were several paragraphs in the text …

Auto-Size Text Frames in Adobe InDesign CC 2015

Eliminate overset text when editing content in InDesign. Your document is finished, your layout is perfect, and you get that last minute email or phone call telling you there are six copy changes that need to be made. We have all been in this position …

Adobe InDesign CC 2015.2; Start Workspace

Start and Recent files workspace After installing the November update to InDesign CC 2015 the first thing (actually the second, because the first is the new splash screen) you will notice is a new default workspace. The new Start workspace provides access to recent files, …

Adobe InDesign CC 2015.1; What’s New

InDesign Makes Working with Glyphs Easier First things first, what exactly is a glyph? In the world of typography a font is a set of characters, numbers, and punctuation that comprise a family to be used together. A glyph, on the other hand, is a …

Using Adobe Bridge Instead of Windows Explorer

Adobe Bridge CC is a separate application that can be downloaded as part of your Creative Cloud subscription. For years it has been an additional application that came with familiar programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign. Its real purpose escaped me for years and I …

Typography: Part 3

In Part 1 we began with a simple classification of the different typefaces used today.

In Part 2 we took a simple look at some of the basic character components.

In Part 3 we want to make the users of Adobe products aware of a wonderful service that is available through the Creative Cloud.

Back in 2009 Jeff Veen, Bryan Mason, Ryan Carver, and Greg Veen, all originally part of the Measure Map/Google Analytics team began a company called Small Batch, Inc. Its purpose was to make font usage on the web far more accessible by introducing a product called Typekit.

Designers had been painfully aware of the limitations associated with font usage online since the webs beginning. At best there were about 14 fonts most designers could count on being installed on the average user’s computer. Did you think everyone was really that crazy about Times New Roman, Arial, or Verdana?

Typography: Part 2

In Part 1 we began with a simple classification of the different typefaces used today. We kept things simple and broke them down into 5 different groups; serif, sans-serif, monospace, handwritten, and decorative. In Part 2 we will take a simple look at some of …

Typography: Part 1

This will be our initial look into the world of text. All those letters that we string together to form books, online articles, blog posts, and the like.

Most mere mortals pay little attention to the how and why of assembling all those words into a form worthy of consumption.

“Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.” ― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

This series will begin with a simple classification of the different typefaces used today. To keep things simple I, and many others, have chosen to break them down into 5 different groups; serif, sans-serif, monospace, handwritten, and decorative.

Serif