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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.
Preparing the Trace Graphic
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 063 - Adobe Photoshop CS3
A month or so ago I demoed a masking technique that works well with text in Illustrator during an Adobe eSeminar I delivered. At the time I promised to write this technique up as a digitip, however, an extremely busy workschedule meant I’d not yet gotten around to posting the […]
Scaling Effects
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Digitip 062 - Adobe InDesign CS3
Last week, the InDesign Talk list had an interesting discussion about scaling effects in InDesign. As far as I can tell from some tests I’ve just run, it is only the Drop Shadow Effect that doesn’t scale. All other effects seem to scale appropriately.
Ins and Outs of Stroke Alignment
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Digitip 061 - Adobe InDesign CS3
For those of us setting Ads in InDesign the introduction of the feature that can set Stroke Alignment on border objects to “Align Stroke to Inside” in InDesign CS was welcomed with open arms. Gone were the days of borders vanishing into the Pasteboard gray…
Adobe Swatch Exchange
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Digitip 060 - Adobe InDesign CS3
The Adobe Swatch Exchange file (.ase), enables sharing of swatches between InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Generally people will use these .ase as means of loading entire colour lists in the various applications. However, it is possible to make colour lists saved as .ase files permanently accessible as colour libraries, without […]
Round Corners and Text Inset
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Digitip 059 - Adobe InDesign CS3/ Typefi AutoFit
At the InDesign Conference, a gentleman in the audience asked “when I set a text inset for Text Frame, and apply different insets for Top, Left, Right and Bottom, I loose this functionality when I apply a Corner Option to the frame, it turns to Inset”.” Is there […]
Paragraph Rules Trick
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Digitip 057 - Adobe InDesign CS3
During the “McHugh, Cohen, Jansen”- final session at the 2007 InDesign InDesign CS3 Conference in Melbourne, I demoed the following paragraph rule trick as method to place a special tint effect behind a heading.. The tip uses both a custom made gradient and stroke style for its colouring.
Output Preview and RGB image display
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Digitip 058 - Acrobat 8 Professional
Someone recently said to me: “I hate the Output Preview in Acrobat”, “If you select the correct similuation profile for CMYK output, it doesn’t show you that your file has RGB images, but just shows you CMYK”.
Well, that might carry a little truth, in that when hovering the mouse over […]
Unicode Values
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Digitip 056 - Adobe InDesign CS3
Unicode values are the unique numerical value assigned to literal characters. In InDesign you’ll see them predominantly used for Find/Changes or Scripting.
How can I find the Unicode Value for a particular character? Other than visiting the official Unicode web-site and accessing the Character charts, how would we find those Unicode […]
The importance of Save As
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Digitip 055 - Adobe InDesign CS3
This tip really isn’t Adobe InDesign CS3 specific. But is extended to anyone working on complex InDesign documents for hours on end.
After a long day’s work
InDesign’s Info Panel displays document information including file size when no artwork is selected on pages. The following screenshot was taken after about 15 hours […]