Tutorials
Font Management
Using Macintosh & Windows
Typography Tutorials & Info
- Typography Basics (Actually, much more than basics!)
- Dingbat list showing Zapf Dingbats, Wingdings (1, 2, & 3), and Webdings
General Publishing Info
- Comparing InDesign, FrameMaker, and QuarkXPress
- Trouble-Free Output for QuarkXPress and InDesign
- Computer Graphic Cheatsheet
- Fractions-To-Decimals (and Picas, Points, Centimeters, and Millimeters)
Photoshop Tutorials
- 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
- Example Adobe Photoshop color settings
- Photoshop Blending Modes Example (Note: 23 MB Zipped File)
InDesign Tutorials
- Tips for dealing with Transparency in InDesign
- Advanced Numbering Examples in InDesign
- InDesign CS3, CS4, & CS5 New Features
- Resizing Methods with InDesign
- Processing PageMaker files for Efficiency and Conversion to InDesign
- Common Keyboard Shortcuts compared between Quark and InDesign
- Anchored Graphic Examples
- InDesign CS4 Preflight Profile
- PDF Job Options (actual settings to load)
QuarkXPress Tutorials
- Suggested QuarkXPress Defaults
- QuarkXPress Keyboard Shortcuts for Text
- QuarkXPress 7.0 review for Layers Magazine
- QuarkXPress 7.0 PDF Output Styles
- Common Keyboard Shortcuts compared between Quark and InDesign
- Quark Tables
FrameMaker Tutorials & Info
Acrobat
- Understanding the Effects of Transparency in PDFs
- PDF/X Explained (slides from a seminar)
- PDF Job Options (actual settings to load)
- 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)
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