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Month: November 2011

Adobe Illustrator: Draw Inside Mode & Inside Strokes Don’t Play Well Together

by Barb Binder Draw Inside and Align Stroke to Inside (or Outside) are individually two terrific features. However, unlike a Reece’s Peanut Butter cup, they are not two great tastes that taste great together. I discovered this in my Adobe Illustrator class this week. Align Stroke to Inside or Outside Stroke is Adobe’s word for border. […]

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Adobe FrameMaker: Shading Behind a Paragraph

by Barb Binder This question comes up in class every now and then. In the past (meaning FrameMaker 9 and earlier), the answer was always a single-cell table. For FrameMaker 10, you may be able to simply add a background color behind the paragraph, or perhaps you will still choose a single-cell table. Which one is […]

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Adobe InDesign: Stroking a Single Letter

by Barb Binder A recent Adobe InDesign student posed an interesting question last week: Do you have a means for creating a box around a single letter that could be ultimately a single character? She read through the Rocky Mountain Training blog options on custom underlines and strokes first (I love that!) but wasn’t able to […]

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