InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2This is the first examination of the sophisticated typographic capabilities of Indesign CS and CS2. It covers in detail new type-related features, such as Sequential Styles, Import Word Styles, and Anchored Objects. It gives clear, engaging explanations of the why and the how of good typography. Whether you're a graphics pros migrating from InDesign's long-entrenched competitor QuarkXPress or a hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length projects, you'll appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on everything typographic.Realizing that to take full advantage of InDesign's typographic tools, you must understand the principles guiding their use, author Nigel French addresses both the whys and the hows of good typography. Using examples & tips, Nigel provides an overview of InDesign's type features, including the Paragraph Composer, optical kerning, and its support for OpenType fonts. Starting with character formats and then moving through paragraph formats, styles & effects, and layouts, you'll have gained the skills they need to produce beautiful type by the end of the volume. |
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... beginning of the ellipsis is omitted . A three - dot ellipsis is part of a standard font set ( Alt + 0133 / Option + - ) . Because the dots of the ellipsis character are too tightly spaced , for best results create your own ellipsis ...
... beginning of the ellipsis is omitted . A three - dot ellipsis is part of a standard font set ( Alt + 0133 / Option + - ) . Because the dots of the ellipsis character are too tightly spaced , for best results create your own ellipsis ...
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... beginning of the main text block and paste Cmd / Ctrl + V the text frame . The text frame is now a generic inline graphic ap- pearing at the beginning of the line of text . 4. To adjust it's horizontal position use the Direct Selection ...
... beginning of the main text block and paste Cmd / Ctrl + V the text frame . The text frame is now a generic inline graphic ap- pearing at the beginning of the line of text . 4. To adjust it's horizontal position use the Direct Selection ...
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... beginning of the story and work forward . Hyphenation Options Words with at Least Letters This refers to the minimum number of characters for hyphenated words . Chang- ing this number from 5 to 6 will result in less hyphenation . After ...
... beginning of the story and work forward . Hyphenation Options Words with at Least Letters This refers to the minimum number of characters for hyphenated words . Chang- ing this number from 5 to 6 will result in less hyphenation . After ...
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adjust Advanced Character Formats alit Anchored Object applied Auto Leading baseline grid Basic Character Formats Battersea Power Station body text Break brown fox jumps Bullets and Numbering Cancel OK Caps and Nested cell Chapter Character Styles choose Control palette create cursor dash Delete Dictionary discretionary hyphen Display document dolor drag drop cap Edit ellipsis em dash eugait example faccum FIGURE Footnote Glyphs grave accent increment Indents and Spacing InDesign Insert italic justified kerning keyboard shortcut layer Layout Left Indent Letter Spacing Ligatures look lowercase menu Nested Styles Offset OpenType OpenType fonts Options Style Overprint paragraph spacing Paragraph Style Paragraph Style Options Preferences pull quote quick brown fox Quotation Mark Right Indent serif shape small caps Story Editor stroke style definition Style Name style sheet subheads text frame text wrap Tint tracking Trail Type Tool typefaces typography uppercase Vertical word spacing x-height