I received an interesting email from FontLab today… announcing the return of Fontographer. A new version (5) of Fontographer has just been released for Mac and PC. So Fontographer has come back to life after more than a decade of being in hybernation.
This is the second in a series of four short GREP Style tutorials. Part 1: Automatically apply a character style to all text between parentheses Part 3: Converting text typed in Capital Letters to Small Caps (OpenType feature) Part 4: Formatting price tags containing dollars and cents with multiple character styles In this second tutorial we look at how we can…read more →
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”. In all honesty it wasn’t…read more →
Digitip 075 – Adobe InDesign InDesign out-of-the-box, does not contain a ‘Make Fraction” command, like other applications such as QuarkXPress have, so if you’re a Quark converter (Welcome a-board by the way!!!), how do you go abouts creating fractions in InDesign? So how can setting fractions be made easier? Well, there are a number of options available. Let me take…read more →
Jan Middendorp writes that his “interest in Letterforms and text faces by Dutch designers such as Hollander, Caecilia, Quadraat, Theses”, were the main triggers for writing his 2004 book “Dutch Type“. As someone who used to carry a Dutch passport prior to swapping it for an Australian one over a decade ago, this book triggers more than an interest in fonts….read more →
From ‘Accent Mark’ to ‘X-height’. Typophile.com provides a very cool list of typographic terms. I have to admit there are plenty of terms on the list I’ve never heard of before… Did you know that an en-dash is sometimes called a Nut? Well I most certainly did not Web-reference: Terminology (2007, Typophile)
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 Values in InDesign?
Thomas Phinney’s made a great list accessible on his weblog that provides an overview of all of the fonts that ship with the various Creative Suite 3 bundles, as well as which ones are being installed during a standard install.