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DesignGeek #31

November 2, 2004 - 2:00am

Edit Font Suitcases in Mac OS X

During all the years that people worked on Macs, up until OS X, they could open bitmap font suitcases and do things with the innards.

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InDesign CS's Auto-Trapping

A friend of mine, a meticulous designer (and a relative newbie to ID) e-mailed me two simple questions a few days ago: Does InDesign automatically trap, like Quark? And can you see those traps when you preview separations (in Window -> Output Preview -> Separations)?

The answer to the first question is yes. Sort of.

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Quark 6.5 Installation Report

Speaking of which ... Yesterday afternoon, Quark posted its free v6.5 updaters to its web site. You can only upgrade to 6.5 if you have Quark 6.1; if you never ran the 6.0 to 6.1 updater, you'll have to do that first. (Instructions and links are detailed on the Quark site.)

QuarkXPress 6.5 Update Page:
http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/65update.html

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