Dutch Type
By Cari Jansen | March 10, 2008
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. It somehow takes me back to my roots 
Remembering how whilst attending Rotterdam’s Print Technology Trade College (Grafische School Rotterdam), we had to handdraw typefaces. We learnt about the history of some common international typefaces, serifs, sans-serifs etc. Sadly little was taught in those days on the history of Dutch Type, Jan’s book would certainly fill that gap in my opinion.
Web-reference: Dutch Type (Jan Middendorp, 2004)
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GREP it and sort it
By Cari Jansen | February 29, 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 visit to the Brisbane IDUG, incidently my first visit to an Australian IDUG, in which Iain presented a great series of short InDesign tips and tricks reminded me Read more »
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The InDesigner.com
By Cari Jansen | February 29, 2008
Michael Murphy… absolute legend and incredible podcaster is back at theInDesigner.com. If you’re a mad InDesigner, a site visit is a must :) His podcasts are without a doubt the most professionally created video tutorials for InDesign.
Michael thank you for a fantastic contribution!
web-reference: theInDesigner.com
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AutoFit: one-to-many relationship
By Cari Jansen | February 3, 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 parent text frame grows.
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Do all bads things come in threes?
By Cari Jansen | February 2, 2008
Ok, so my site was down for almost 3 days, so was my email… all as a result of my domain host doing a Server Upgrade… Apparently they started the rollover in September/October, and as a result copied files across at the time? They forgot all about it when they did the final rollover and pointed DNS to new location, which had old files in it… They incremented the DNS and overnight it reset itself back to Sept’07 several times?
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Server update
By Cari Jansen | January 30, 2008
My domain host updated the server that hosts my domain this afternoon. And in doing so copied an old site (Sept’07) across to the new server, which some of you might have seen up and running for a couple of hours.
Following that, the services needed to be re-instated, which meant the site was entirely down for about 3-4hrs. My apologies on behalf of my domain host for any inconvenience this might have caused.
All services seem to have been restored now.
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Update 5.0.2 released
By Cari Jansen | January 23, 2008
Adobe’s released InDesign and InCopy 5.0.2 updates today. Fixing quite a few bugs in this release, so a must have update.
Web-reference: InCopy 5.0.2 Update for Mac (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InCopy 5.0.2 Update for PC (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InCopy 5.0.2 Release Notes (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InDesign 5.0.2 Update for Mac (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InDesign 5.0.2 Update for PC (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
Web-reference: InDesign 5.0.2 Release Notes (2008, Adobe Systems Inc.)
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Colour Management
By Cari Jansen | January 21, 2008
As someone who has Real World Color Management by Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting and the late Bruce Fraser on the shelf. A publication I highly recommend for anyone interested in learning about “all things colour”. It’s great to see that Chris Murphy has written Colour Management Essential Training. According to Amazon.com’s write-up:
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Temporary Access to Selection Tools
By Cari Jansen | January 17, 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 the Selection or Direct Selection tool.
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InDesign CS3 - Exam Prep Guide
By Cari Jansen | January 17, 2008
Was talking to a colleague in the US this morning and she mentioned that the Exam Prepraration Guide for InDesign CS3 has (finally) been released.
If you’re not yet an Adobe Certified Expert and are interested in becoming a member of a growing group of Adobe Certified Experts, you can start reviewing this guide, study and sit the exam at any Thomson, Prometric or Pearson VUE centre in your area.
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