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Designing Sustainable Packaging
on 19 June 2009
Using QuarkXPress 8 design grids
on 19 June 2009
Guides and grids are critical to the layout process. Just as important as vertical column guides is a horizontal baseline grid. continue
Bring back hanging
on 5 June 2009
No, it’s not a policy announcement from UKIP, it’s a tutorial on the new hanging punctuation options in QuarkXPress 8. In MacUser Vol 25 No 12, on sale now.
PDFs for non-dummies
on 5 June 2009
Adobe PDF is a superbly flexible file format that’s become the norm for sharing documents. It’s also increasingly dominant as a way of delivering desktop publishing (DTP) jobs to print shops, but the plethora of output options has many users questioning whether it really makes things easier. Find out how to get it right every time in MacUser Vol 25 No 12, on sale now.
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Lost by design
on 5 June 2009
ACT 1: A man’s eye in close-up. As we pull back, we see he’s lying in a forest. A white labrador with the face of ex-Apple CEO Gil Amelio runs up and tugs at the hem of the man’s black turtleneck. Steve Jobs – for it is he – follows Gil to a beach, where there seems to have been a plane crash. On closer inspection, the wreckage is that of a building, 1 Infinite Loop. continue
More cappuccino, Rev Wojciechowski?
on 22 May 2009
Find out how to vary words and pictures through a series of items in Adobe InDesign. In MacUser Vol 25 No 11, on sale now. continue
Print: use it or lose it
on 8 May 2009
Many legends tell of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. The myth of an irreplaceable source of knowledge disappearing overnight has haunted writers and historians continue
Everybody was kung-fu designing
on 8 May 2009
When the going gets rough, you’re super-tough… with these high-impact InDesign effects based on concentric and radial paths. In MacUser Vol 25 No 10, on sale now.
The lighter side of layout
on 24 April 2009
See how comic book design principles can liven up your page layouts – even when you’re not designing comic books. In MacUser Vol 25 No 9, on sale now. continue
And to think I didn’t see it coming
on 9 April 2009
Victoria Beckham, as you may have heard on the terraces, likes nothing better than a bit of apology. The latest act of contrition was performed by OK! magazine, which admitted that its cover shot of La Becks arm-in-arm with Cheryl Cole wasn’t quite what it seemed. continue
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