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In this tutorial, Jeff Witchel explains the in’s and out’s of optical margin alignment in Adobe InDesign. Optical margin alignment is when you adjust edge of text to be more visually pleasing, even if it pushes letters outside the bounds of your text box. Optical margin alignment is particularly useful for centering text with punctuation.

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InDesign Scripts By sselberg March 12, 2006 164,661 Downloads ** Note ** The Adobe Exchange has been very slow to allow me to publish updates to the zip file. I've been waiting on the "administrator's review" for weeks. I've therefore also hosted the code at " InDesign Magazine's December 2007 issue has an article on making calendars. The Complex Grid « Whatype 13/11/2009 – I’ve made a 2010 Calendar using the Complex Grid and I’ve explained it step by step. You can check that article here. I hope you like it Karl Gerstner designed this grid for his work on the CAPITAL magazine. This is actually a six-column grid with a four-column grid superimposed. Karl suggests that this grid requires considerable study, and a designer would have to spend a great deal of time working with it before he could make free use of it in a creative sense.

30+ Must-Have Free Illustrator Scripts - Astute Graphics Adobe Illustrator has plenty of tools and features, but advanced users will always need more. Therefore, developers create scripts and plug-ins to help solve various problems and accelerate time-consuming processes. Today we have prepared an overview of the best free Illustrator scripts on the market. The list is systematized and is divided into several groups according to functionality. Groups include working with paths and points, different types of distribution of shapes, generating objects, working with Layers panel, text object and so on. Scripts Installation and running

InDesign Scripts by Keith Gilbert One of the consulting services I provide is custom script development for Adobe InDesign. If you find yourself banging your head against the wall wishing that InDesign could do such-and-such, or if you have a thorny workflow issue you'd like to solve, a script may be the answer. Contact me and I'll develop a script for you! Below are some free scripts. Some I developed for my own use, some for my own amusement, and some just for the challenge! If one of these scripts saves you a significant amount of time and effort, you can show your appreciation here.

Five simple steps to designing grid systems – Part 2 – July 16th, 2005 – In part one of this Simple Steps series I talked about how to use a simple ratio, that of the paper size you are using, to create a symmetrical grid on which to create your designs. This, the second part in the series, will deal with other ratios and how they can be combined to create more complex grid systems. I’ve talked a few times about using the Golden, or ‘Divine’, Section in the grid systems you design. wundes.com To download this script: right-click and select "Save Link As" When Adobe came out with the new CS text engine, the text fields in documents saved in an older format were often broken into "sub" fields. This script is a rudimentary tool to help rejoin the broken text fields. It works best on individual lines of horizontal text.

Sad Bird Design What is this? This is an ongoing guide to creating grid systems for print, which will be continually updated. Introduction: There are plenty of guides out now online about how to create grid systems for the web, even grid generators. Free Texture Packs To Spice Up Your Designs - Noupe Design Blog Feb 25 2011 Every day we try our best to present to you some useful tips, dear reader, to inspire you with fresh ideas and to try out new things. Today, we’ve prepared a nice collection of free texture packs that you just may have been looking for to freshen up your designs you’re working on. Enjoy! Exporting from InDesign to HTML5: Amazing Free Script Oh, if I only had a dollar for each time someone asked me: How do I export my InDesign document as HTML, keeping the page geometry (how the page looks), animations, interactive features, and everything! Well, you asked for it, you got it… and you’re gonna’ like it! First, some background…

Designers Bookshop – Grid Calculator Pro Edition - Plug-in for Adobe InDesign Experience Adobe InDesign ... on steroids! While many designers in the world are wasting hours after hours trying to create layouts that works, our clients only need to spend minutes. Watch a video on how to go from scratch to a finished layout! Discover the tool that a former Swedish graphic design student once dreamed about, he searched everywhere for it, until he realized that nobody had ever created it.

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