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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Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 Nigel French. Creating Default Styles If you create paragraph styles , character styles , or color swatches with no docu- ment open , the styles and swatches will be in every new document ...
Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 Nigel French. Creating Default Styles If you create paragraph styles , character styles , or color swatches with no docu- ment open , the styles and swatches will be in every new document ...
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Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 Nigel French. Create Guides While Margins and Columns is the place to be when creating or adjusting major column divisions that affect text flow , Create Guides can be used to make cus- tom ...
Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 Nigel French. Create Guides While Margins and Columns is the place to be when creating or adjusting major column divisions that affect text flow , Create Guides can be used to make cus- tom ...
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... creating logo treatments and special effects . With its path editing and transparency tools , it's now possible to create type effects directly within InDesign that until recently would have required Photoshop or Illustrator . It ...
... creating logo treatments and special effects . With its path editing and transparency tools , it's now possible to create type effects directly within InDesign that until recently would have required Photoshop or Illustrator . It ...
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