Cari Jansen

Fontographer… It’s back

Cari Jansen — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:19:29 +0000

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.

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Introducing GREP Styles (2)

Cari Jansen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:32:17 +0000

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 →

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A matter of points…

Cari Jansen — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:23:30 +0000

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 →

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How do I create fractions in InDesign?

Cari Jansen — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:01:50 +0000

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 →

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Dutch Type

Cari Jansen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:18:28 +0000

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 →

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Glossary of Typographic Terms

Cari Jansen — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:45:30 +0000

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)

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Unicode Values

Cari Jansen — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:49:21 +0000

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? ...read more →

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Creative Suite 3 Fonts

Cari Jansen — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:48:46 +0000

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. You’ll be introduced to Arno Pro, a font named after a the river Arno that runs through Florence, designed by...read more →

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Chinese Mac

Cari Jansen — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:09:55 +0000

Unicode support in Adobe InDesign allows for inclusion of Chinese text in the English version of the application. Erik Rasmussen has for some time, and with help of many others put together an excellent Chinese Mac web-site, providing many tips, tricks and step-by-step instructions on making Chinese text on an English Mac OSX system work. There is also a small...read more →

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Helvetica

Cari Jansen — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:13:55 +0000

Gary Hustwit has directed the film Helvetica: "Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives." Web Reference: Helvetica – A Documentary (2006)

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Fonts…

Cari Jansen — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:17:54 +0000

It’s funny how when you are writing/developing course material, you realise you’re never 100% certain about the facts and I hate writing things down when I’m not 100% sure. So, here I found myself — the Adobe Certified Expert and print specialist — digging back into the archives, looking more in-depth at font embedding and subsetting in PDFs, pros and...read more →

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