What to do when a document needs a table to be aligned away from the spine, but the table breaks across pages.
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This look at look at the Smithsonian collection of seed catalogs offers some great examples of vintage printing technology and type design.
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What better time to round up new typefaces than on Friday. Not only is “Fonts on Friday” alliterative, but showcasing new fonts also seems like a good way to end the week as well. This week’s round-up consists to fonts that are thin, angular, and illusory. These typefaces definitely fall into the category of experimental. […]
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Much of the focus at Adobe in recent weeks has been showing sneak peeks of Photoshop 6 in advance of releasing the public beta last week,. But this week it’s Adobe Illustrator’s turn to shine with a celebration of the past and anticipation for the future. Adobe Illustrator turned 25 last week. The application — […]
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While moving $70,000 per day isn’t much for some Silicon Valley firms or metropolitan newspapers at their heyday, it’s a remarkable number for the iPad Newsstand that launched only six months ago. The Newsstand is the iPad uber-app that sells and distributes subscription-based periodicals, like newspapers and magazines. The report, by analytics firm Distimo, says […]
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A new camera has been in the news recently: the Lytro, a $399 camera that allows you to take a photo now, and focus — or refocus — later. Sounds provocative. But does it work? Is this something you should add to your camera bag? I’ve had the opportunity to use one for several weeks […]
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Pros: Some nice editing tools, good local filtering and rating, cool journal facility. Cons: Metadata is not standard IPTC; edits have limited latitude; iOS sandboxing makes for complex multi-app workflow. Score: 7.5/10 It’s taken a surprising amount of time, but Apple has finally released a version of iPhoto for the iPad. Apple no longer seems […]
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If you’re on Facebook, you’ll appreciate this new one-click access to all the InDesign goodies there
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They say that opposites attract, but then again, similar values and shared histories often lead to the best matches. Those axioms have held true for people, and what’s true for people is also true for typefaces. That’s the premise of TypeConnection, a matchmaking game for fonts. Designed by Aura Seltzer as an MFA thesis project, […]
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