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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... grid that combines a flexible number of columns with a baseline grid . To the average reader , a well - designed grid will be invisible ; nevertheless it's there , helping the reader to make sense of all the different elements in a ...
... grid that combines a flexible number of columns with a baseline grid . To the average reader , a well - designed grid will be invisible ; nevertheless it's there , helping the reader to make sense of all the different elements in a ...
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... grid will still work without this step - it is pleasing to have everything align perfectly . Align to Grid Once you've established a baseline grid , you can force your paragraphs to align to it by choosing All Lines . This option can be ...
... grid will still work without this step - it is pleasing to have everything align perfectly . Align to Grid Once you've established a baseline grid , you can force your paragraphs to align to it by choosing All Lines . This option can be ...
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... grid , making it easier to crop your picture frames to a leading increment . If you are using text wraps , set the text wrap offset to your leading increment . Aligning to the grid always means the next grid increment , causing leading ...
... grid , making it easier to crop your picture frames to a leading increment . If you are using text wraps , set the text wrap offset to your leading increment . Aligning to the grid always means the next grid increment , causing leading ...
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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