- Nine Rules for Creating Good XML
- Mar 7, 2008
- HTML allows you to be a little lax, but XML is a sterner taskmaster. James J. Maivald and Cathy Palmer have come up with nine simple rules that will help you to create well-formed XML every time.
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- Object Styles in Adobe InDesign CS4
- May 11, 2009
- Text isn’t the only element that makes up an InDesign layout, nor is it the only asset in a project to which you can assign multiple attributes. Frames, shapes, and strokes—collectively known as objects—potentially have at least as many attributes as text.
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- Points and Paths in Adobe InDesign CS3
- Feb 14, 2009
- Flummoxed by the Pen Tool? Sandee Cohen shows you how to work with Points and Paths using the Pen Tool in Adobe InDesign CS3.
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- Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign: Leading
- Jul 28, 2010
- Nigel French discusses the details of leading (the space between lines of type) in Adobe InDesign, including general rules of thumb, exceptions, and the use of auto leading.
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- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Interactive Documents
- Sep 10, 2009
- Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner explain InDesign's features for the “rich media” producer. Many of these tools don’t produce any visible effect on your InDesign pages, but change the behavior of PDF or Flash SWF files that you export.
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- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Paragraph Rules
- Sep 16, 2009
- Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to apply paragraph rules, ground rules for paragraph rules, and tinting paragraphs.
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- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Placing Text on a Path
- Aug 21, 2009
- Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how InDesign can place text on a path, as well as place text inside a path.
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- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Tables
- Aug 21, 2009
- InDesign can create and edit tables, or import tables from Word, Excel, or XML. This feature isn’t perfect, but it’s more than good enough to alleviate most of the pain of working with tables in a layout.
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- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: Text Wrap
- Sep 8, 2009
- Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to apply a text wrap to any independent object in InDesign.
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- Real World Adobe InDesign CS4: XML
- Sep 14, 2009
- XML is as simple or complicated as you care to make it. Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner show you how to keep it simple, at least at first.
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- Real World Adobe InDesign CS5: Type
- Aug 26, 2010
- This chapter provides a walk through of InDesign's typesetting features, including character formatting (font, point size, kerning, and baseline shift are examples of character formatting), paragraph formatting (indents, tabs, space above and below, and composition), and formatting using character and paragraph styles.
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- Real World Adobe® InDesign® CS5: Creating Pages of Different Sizes
- Apr 15, 2010
- In this excerpt from Real World Adobe® InDesign® CS5, learn how to create multiple page sizes in the same document -- a feature that people have been requesting for years.
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- Real World Tips for Working with Text in InDesign CS3
- Jan 4, 2008
- Wise-cracking authors Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner take you through all of InDesign's typesetting tools, sharing real world techniques for getting your work done faster and more efficiently along the way.
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- Review Your InDesign Document with Others Using CS Review
- Dec 31, 2010
- Learn how to utilize Adobe CS Review, a free online service that enables you to start reviews from Creative Suite software. Author Brian Wood shows you how to share reviews with others, get feedback, and make changes within a program such as Adobe InDesign.
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- Running Header Text Variables in Adobe InDesign CS4
- Jun 9, 2009
- Michael Murphy tells you everything you need to know about running text header variables in Adobe InDesign CS4.
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- Sandee Cohen and David Blatner Talk about Adobe InDesign CS5
- Sep 23, 2010
- Sandee Cohen (author of InDesign CS5
for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide) and David
Blatner (a coauthor of Real World
Adobe InDesign CS5) share questions and conversation about Adobe InDesign CS5.
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- Setting Up Layout Rules for a Mobile App Design in Adobe InDesign CS6
- May 3, 2012
- This excerpt from Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium Classroom in a Book shows you how InDesign lets you work with alternate
layouts and helps you adapt your layouts with Liquid Layout rules.
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- Seven Principles of Great Template Design in InDesign
- Feb 12, 2009
- Use the seven principles covered in this chapter to guide the decisions you make throughout the template construction process. Gabriel Powell shows you how.
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- Sidestepping the Banana Skins: How to Avoid Common Type Mistakes in InDesign
- Apr 16, 2014
- Don't make yourself easy prey for the type pedants out there who will mock you for using an opening quote mark instead of an apostrophe. While rules are made to be broken, Nigel French, author of InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign, 3rd Edition, offers ten rules of InDesign type that should (almost) never be broken.
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- Step-by-Step Guide to Designing InDesign Templates
- Mar 14, 2008
- Gabriel Powell walks through each step in the InDesign template design process, helping you to forge a path toward the successful completion of any template.
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