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. FIGURE 2.3 Anatomy of a Text Frame . A. Text frame containing a whole story . B. The same text frame resized so that the text is overset . Alternatively , if you don't want ...
Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 Nigel French. FIGURE 2.3 Anatomy of a Text Frame . A. Text frame containing a whole story . B. The same text frame resized so that the text is overset . Alternatively , if you don't want ...
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Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 Nigel French. Types of Text Flow Manual text flow adds text one frame at a time . The text flow stops at the bottom of a text frame , or at the last of a series of linked frames . You'll ...
Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 Nigel French. Types of Text Flow Manual text flow adds text one frame at a time . The text flow stops at the bottom of a text frame , or at the last of a series of linked frames . You'll ...
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... text frames , even if they have nothing in them , make sure View > Show Frame Edges ( Cmd / Ctrl + H ) is checked . Making a headline span multiple columns : In addition to the out port at the bottom right of a text frame , there is ...
... text frames , even if they have nothing in them , make sure View > Show Frame Edges ( Cmd / Ctrl + H ) is checked . Making a headline span multiple columns : In addition to the out port at the bottom right of a text frame , there is ...
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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