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3. How to Kern Like a Pro
This is the third of a 10-part series of the Ten Keys to Seamless Typesetting. Kerning is a necessary part of the typesetting process....
Raphaël Freeman
Feb 2, 20181 min read
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Ḥanuka
So there was a recent post on InDesign Secrets on how to find Ḥanuka in a document since it is spelt in so many different ways. One of...
Raphael Freeman
Dec 20, 20171 min read
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Balancing the book
When the manuscript is complete and there are no more corrections, the next stage is the final one of “balancing” the book. This is the...
Raphaël Freeman
Dec 6, 20171 min read
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Widows and Orphans: Some of the Most Common Typesetting No Nos
A widow is the last line of a paragraph at the top of a page.
An orphan is the first line of a paragraph at bottom of a page.
Raphaël Freeman
Apr 12, 20174 min read
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Word vs InDesign for your Book: an Expert Analysis
The change of typeface has improved the situation overall, but it hasn’t addressed the biggest problem – spacing. In picture 3 we have taken
Raphael Freeman
Mar 9, 20174 min read
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Setting the page margins in InDesign
For quite some time, I would fiddle with the values until they were just so, but I decided that there must be a better way of doing this. I
Raphaël Freeman
Feb 14, 20171 min read
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Boxes and Lines in Complex Layout
In the below video I demonstrate how to achieve this in InDesign as well as quickly showing another favorite typesetting trick of mine of ho
Raphaël Freeman
Jan 31, 20171 min read
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How to prepare your book for typesetting
Assigning styles aren’t necessary – it just can make the process for the author, editor and typesetter more efficent. However, as long as th
Raphaël Freeman
Jan 30, 20173 min read
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Commercial extensions
About ten days ago I was working on a project and was very frustrated. In InDesign the only way to make footnotes renumber at each chapter i
Raphaël Freeman
Dec 12, 20152 min read
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