Taking Control of Ruler Units with a Single Click
I opened an InDesign layout that another freelancer had created. When I looked at my Rulers, they were using Picas for the units of measurement. ...
Additions to Swatches Panel Have Many Pluses
Once you get beyond the obvious advantages of Live Color and Swatch Groups, you might discover that there are other great new Swatch features that ...
Taking Control of Ruler Units with a Single Click
I opened an InDesign layout that another freelancer had created. When I looked at my Rulers, they were using Picas for the units of measurement. ...
Masking Images Made Easier
In previous versions of Illustrator, if you wanted to crop a photo, it wasn’t very easy. You had to draw a rectangle on top of ...
An Icon of Control
If you Option (Alt)-click on any ICON (not button) in the Control palette, a dialog will open to enter all of your specifications. For instance, ...
Putting Default Colors at Your Fingertips
The default colors for an object in Illustrator are a white fill with a 1 point black stroke. Sometimes I’ll get a little carried away ...
When It Comes to Live Trace, Don't Reinvent the Wheel
When working with Live Trace to convert a pixel image to vector, I always start with a Preset. With names like “Comic Art,” “Type,” and ...
Can You Export an InDesign Layout to an Acrobat with ...
I designed a brochure with two black-plate text layers, one in English and another in Spanish, so that each language could be output from the ...