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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... increments Grids Cundes & Pasteboard Dictionary Spalling Autocorrect Stury Editor Duplay Display Performance Type ... increment for Tracking . For some bizarre reason the factory default for this preference is 20 , which results in ...
... increments Grids Cundes & Pasteboard Dictionary Spalling Autocorrect Stury Editor Duplay Display Performance Type ... increment for Tracking . For some bizarre reason the factory default for this preference is 20 , which results in ...
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... increment specified in your Units and Increment Preferences . The default kern increment is 20/1000 of an em , which is too coarse . Do yourself a favor and change this increment to 5 in your application Preferences . Because these ...
... increment specified in your Units and Increment Preferences . The default kern increment is 20/1000 of an em , which is too coarse . Do yourself a favor and change this increment to 5 in your application Preferences . Because these ...
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... 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 val- ues to be rounded up , never down . For example , if a ...
... 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 val- ues to be rounded up , never down . For example , if a ...
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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