Olav Martin Kvern
Olav Martin Kvern is a software developer, illustrator, graphic designer, and writer. He is the author of Real World FreeHand and Real World InDesign, and the co-author of Real World PageMaker. His column "Desktop Science" appears in Adobe Magazine, and other columns and articles have appeared in Publish, Macworld, U&lc, and Visio SmartPages.
- Features: Written by Olav Martin Kvern on November 10, 2004
This article is excerpted from "Real World Adobe InDesign CS."
At the heart of any good page layout is formatting and perhaps none is more critical than paragraph formatting. Bad indents, careless alignment, tight line-spacing, misused tabs -- all these combine to disrupt page harmony.
Thankfully, Adobe InDesign gives you a full complement of controls to apply to paragraphs. You'll find the basics such as alignment, indents, tabs, hyphenation, drop caps,
- Features: Written by Olav Martin Kvern on September 8, 2004
This story is taken from "Real World Adobe InDesign CS."
Tables provide a compact way of presenting complex information in a layout. But many creative folk shudder at the prospect of designing them. Tables are boring and difficult to format, goes the common thinking. And tables mean using Excel, right? Ick.
- Features: Written by Olav Martin Kvern on August 20, 2003Body:This story is taken from "Real World InDesign 2."
- Features: Written by Olav Martin Kvern on May 28, 2003Body:This story is taken from "Real World InDesign 2."
