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InDesign CC Tip: Custom Glyph Sets

Glyph is a term that encompasses the various elements of a typeface, including letters, characters, and alternative letter forms for things like ligatures and swashes. Creating a custom glyph set is a way to save and organize glyphs you commonly use, ...

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INFOGRAPHIC: The Online Content Generation Gap

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Who’s reading what?  Here’s an infographic jam-packed with facts and figures on how different generations consume digital content, providing a breakdown by baby boomer, millennial, and Generation X users. Based on a survey of 1,200 people, this week’s pick from Fractl and Buzzstream, posted on Social Times, looks ...

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Tools for Visual Thinking

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Looking at a diagram, floor plan, flow chart, or map helps us to quickly grasp an idea. When we need to communicate a complex concept, the process of drawing it out helps us clarify our thinking, and the resulting drawing ...

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InDesign CC Tip: Go to Source

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Link is InDesign’s term for the connection it makes between imported or copied objects and a document. Links for images, stories, and page items can also be established between different documents using tools like the Content Conveyor. Choosing the option Create ...

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INFOGRAPHIC: What Men Wear in Wearables

Men's wearable tech infographic

What are you wearing? No longer considered nerd gear, wearable tech is big among fitness-minded users for tracking and customizing health and training information and goals. But fashion still counts—and that’s true for men as well as women, according to this week’s infographic, based on a ...

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InDesign CC Tip: Using Next Styles

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The Next Style command applies another defined style to the next paragraph when you type a return at the end of a paragraph. A paragraph return signifies the end of one style and the beginning of the new one. When creating a ...

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Apple Watch: Am I Going to Like You?

Well, the day has come and passed—the Apple Watch release day. I ordered mine on the prerelease date and had high hopes that I might see it on April 24, but the shipping info indicated that I might not see it ...

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TFP’s May Book Picks: Apple Watch

Ahead of the launch of the Apple Watch, some analysts estimated that by the end of 2015, shipments of Apple’s first wearable will reach more than 13.7 million units, giving the company a nearly 50% share of the market out of the ...

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