Smart borders with dingbats and symbol fonts
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Adobe's Illustrator 7.0, Macromedia's FreeHand 7 and Corel's CorelDraw 7 can all be used to draw custom borders composed of common font dingbats or symbols. In all applications, the user chooses a graphics tool to define a text path of the desired shape; that is, circular, retangular, elliptical, etc. In Illustrator, to type the symbols that compose the border, the user first selects the path-type tool from the toolbar's type tool fly-out menu. In FreeHand, the user selects the text tool. After clicking anywhere on the page, he types the desired series of symbols, uses the pointer tool to simultaneously choose the created text and path, and clicks on the Text menu's Attach to Path. In CorelDraw, the user first selects the artistic-text tool; after clicking anywhere on the page, he selects the created path, holding down the Shift key to select the text.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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Anchored in solid ground
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Adobe Systems' PageMaker and Quark's QuarkXPress DTP software packages each contain under-utilized graphics-to-text anchoring capabilities that can significantly ease locating certain tables next to certain text in documents. PageMaker and QuarkXPress each contain individual restrictions regarding which images can be linked to which text blocks, but an understanding of these rules provides users with the ability to improve an entire document editing process. QuarkXpress users cannot anchor lines, nonrectangular boxes or grouped objects, but rectangular picture boxes can be linked to rectangular text boxes. PageMaker does not support anchoring for graphics inside frames or grouped images, but users can anchor any natively-drawn or foreign inline graphic.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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A look behind the mask
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A pictures-in-type effect is easy to achieve using an illustration program such as Adobe Illustrator 6.0 or Macromedia's FreeHand 5.0. Essentially, the procedure uses type like a cookie cutter, masking or punching out an underlying illustration. Techniques for using type to mask with illustrations and photographs are explained, and tricks are described for adding elaborations. To fill a word with illustrations using Illustrator, first, format the type. After that, either place the type over the illustration to make it a mask, or if an outline to the type is needed, convert it to a path. A stroke can then be added, or multiple stroked versions can be used to create an inline effect.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1996
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