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3D Pie Graphs in Illustrator
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Digitip 073 - Adobe Illustrator CS3
Illustrator has had a graph tool for as long as I can remember. The following trick shows how you can use Illustrator graphs to create a 3D pie graph for which the graph data can still be edited.
Let’s get started by entering some basic numbers
Simple continuous pattern
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Digitip 072 - Adobe Illustrator CS3
Modified 20-Apr-2008 (added Scott C. tip)
The following tip shows how you can create a relatively simple continuous pattern using Illustrator. It’s been sitting on the back-burner for well over a month, but is finally here
Layout Zone for small newspapers
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Digitip 071 - InDesign CS3 / Layout Zone script
Modified 23-April-2008 (improved sound quality)
Modified 22-April-2008 (added transcript).
Martinho da Gloria’s Layout Zone script adds two cool features to InDesign CS3. The script was announced via InDesign Secrets earlier this month, and Tim Cole on his Adobe blog, provided excellent instructions on installation and usage of the script.
With […]
GREP it and sort it
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Digitip 070 - Adobe InDesign
During the GREP session at the InDesign Conference in Melbourne late August last year, I demoed the “swapping of first name and surnames” and have been meaning to add a tip on this to my blog for sometime in which we GREP it and then sort the names alphabetically. Last night’s […]
AutoFit: one-to-many relationship
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Digitip 069 - Adobe InDesign CS3 / Typefi AutoFit
The following tip gives an another example of how the Free Typefi’s Autofit plug-in - downloadable from www.typefi.com can be used with InDesign. In this tip you’ll learn how to create a one-to-many relationship that results in a background tint with two rounded corners expanding as the […]
Temporary Access to Selection Tools
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Digitip 068 - Adobe InDesign CS3
Ok, not really an extensive tip… more an observation and question - at the end - with some tip elements in it that I thought I’d share.
Pressing the Command (Mac) or Ctrl (Win) key whilst you are working with another tool in InDesign will give you temporary access to either […]
Using Scripts in InDesign, CornerEffects
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Digitip 067 - Adobe InDesign CS3
The following tip will take you through Script installation, running scripts, assigning a keyboard shortcut to a script and reviews the sample script “CornerEffects.jsx”.
Automatic Frame Resizing with AutoFit
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Digitip 066 - Adobe InDesign CS3 / Typefi AutoFit
The following tip gives an another example of how the Free Typefi’s Autofit plug-in - downloadable from www.typefi.com can be used with InDesign. In this tip you’ll learn how text is run into a Header-Text Frame and a Body Content Text-Frame that are threaded to eachother. As the […]
Masked Text
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 065 - Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3
This tip is Part 3 of a three-part tip and generates the masked text. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork is created and Part 2 outlines how to apply Live Trace and maintain colour editing ability.
Tracing the Trace Graphic
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 064 - Adobe Illustrator CS3
This tip is Part 2 of a three-part tip. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork that is placed into the Illustrator file was created and Part 3 will create the Text Effect that will give our finished result.