For the past several years, I’ve been putting together ABCNJ’s Annual Directory in Adobe InDesign. It was a nice tool to use, especially for the type of data I needed to include, and had several features I required to make the layout work 1. Before the 6.0 redesign I’d been using Apple Pages for this…
Tag: desktop publishing
Continuing with InDesign
This week I’ve been continuing to play around with a trial of InDesign. As I explored it’s features all I could think is, “Why on earth have I never used this before?” I’m pretty pleased. As I’ve written previously, InDesign is very much a professional tool. There is no hand-holding. Even things like specific character…
Get a with the styles, please
Any time I begin to collaborate on documents, I inevitably come up against one of the greatest banes of the desktop publishing world, manually formatted text. This is a particular difficulty with website submissions. In submitted web articles text comes in manually formatted with headers, often with line breaks following to make the text look…
