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Monthly archives for May, 2009

InDesign: Vertical Justification and End of Story Ma...

Adobe InDesign Tutorial

Note that this trick does not work in CS5, or CS5.5, as Adobe’s changed the  Text Frame / Text Wrapped object interaction behaviour. Vertical Justification…  according to Webopedia is the “automatic adjustment of vertical space between lines, so that columns and pages have an even top and bottom margin” …   In InDesign Vertical Justification really […]

A matter of points…

Adobe InDesign Tutorial / Tip

I’m analysing some InDesign files for a customer presently, and upon opening one of the files in InDesign the following dialog appeared. “This document’s setting for points/picas per inch differs from the current application setting. To change the document’s points/pica per inch setting, go to the Units & Increments panel in the Preferences dialog box”. […]

Styles, styles and more styles…

Adobe InDesign News

An excellent book by Michael Murphy.  If you want to work ‘smarter not harder’ in InDesign, then his new book is a must read. Michael covers everything, and I mean EVERY-thing to do with Styles in InDesign CS4. From the basics of Paragraph and Character style usage to Object Styles, Stroke Styles, Nested, Next, GREP, […]