InDesign

10 reasons why you should start using iWork.com

by Tom Gorham on 18 May 2010 in iWork

iWork.com has been much maligned and mostly shunned since its launch last year, but despite its flaws, this free online service has a lot to offer. Let’s say that you’re asked to name Apple’s least-impressive software over the past 10 years. After considering the anaemic .Mac Backup application or pondering the disappointment of the Mac [...]

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Work smarter not harder by using your DTP’s style sheets

by Keith Martin on 18 May 2010 in Design for Print

Take the mind-numbing drudgery out of complex text styling jobs by preparing style sheets for your layouts. Today, I’m going to talk about style sheets in print design. This may not sound particularly exciting, but it will make your work a lot easier and enable you to finish the job in hand far quicker. If [...]

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Pages’ simplicity makes it an ideal tool for small print-runs

by Tom Gorham on 18 May 2010 in iWork

Pages may not be as well-known as InDesign or QuarkXPress, but for small print-runs, Apple’s application has a lot to offer. Pages isn’t the sort of page layout application that under normal circumstances you’re likely to mention in the same sentence as QuarkXPress or InDesign. Frankly, many would struggle to place it at opposite ends [...]

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Variable data printing for the rest of us

by Keith Martin on 18 May 2010 in Design for Print

Dynamic publishing may be the next big thing, but if it’s to really take off, the likes of Quark and Adobe must provide designers with better tools. Traditional print design is normally all about nailing things down with millimeter precision, polishing layouts and adjusting things to watchmaker-levels of accuracy. In some respects, web design is [...]

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Time to take colour control of your prints

by Keith Martin on 18 May 2010 in Design for Print

Forget trying to match colours by eye on screen. By using a tint chart or swatch, you can ensure that the finished article is exactly the right colour. Sometimes, when you need to get something done, the simplest approach is to cut to the chase. Colour matching is a case in point. This stuff is [...]

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