Special Reports & Downloads
- OS X Font Management for Graphic Artists (covers up to 10.4)
- Windows Font Management for Graphic Artists
- Switching between Windows and Macintosh
- Typography Basics (Actually, much more than basics!)
- Trouble-Free Output for QuarkXPress and InDesign
- Comparing InDesign, FrameMaker, and QuarkXPress
- Computer Graphic Cheatsheet
- Fractions-To-Decimals (and Picas, Points, Centimeters, and Millimeters)
- Dingbat list showing Zapf Dingbats, Wingdings (1, 2, & 3), and Webdings
- Understand Resolution (PPI, DPI, SPI, LPI)
- Resizing Images In Photoshop
- Up-Sampling (adding resolution) examples
- Up-Sampling (adding resolution) Methods using Photoshop (Note: 15 MB file)
- Processing Screen Captures in Photoshop
- Tips for dealing with Transparency in InDesign
- Advanced Numbering Examples in InDesign CS3
- InDesign CS3 New Features
- Resizing Methods with InDesign
- Processing PageMaker files for Efficiency and Conversion to InDesign
- Understanding the Effects of Transparency in PDFs
- PDF/X Explained (slides from a seminar)
- Suggested QuarkXPress Defaults
- QuarkXPress Keyboard Shortcuts for Text
- QuarkXPress 7.0 review for Layers Magazine
- QuarkXPress 7.0 PDF Output Styles
Note: You can Right-Click or Control-Click to download the PDF directly to disk.
This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file; you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.
Below are PDF settings for Acrobat Distiller and InDesign:
- How to create Acrobat 5 Print/Press Settings (useful for QuarkXPress 6.X too)
- How to create Acrobat 5 Web-Download Settings (useful for QuarkXPress 6.X too)
- Creative Suite 2 (inc. Acrobat Distiller 7) settings (actual settings to load)
Below is customized Photoshop color settings for SWOP, sheetfed (coated), and newsprint:
(If you have ideas for other reports you would like to see,
please let us know; you will receive a free copy.)
Tips & Tricks*
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