InDesign | typesetting

Raphaël Freeman

Feb 2, 20181 min read

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....

Raphael Freeman

Dec 20, 20171 min read

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...

Raphaël Freeman

Dec 6, 20171 min read

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

Apr 12, 20174 min read

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.

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Raphael Freeman

Mar 9, 20174 min read

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

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Raphaël Freeman

Feb 14, 20171 min read

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

Jan 31, 20171 min read

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 30, 20173 min read

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

Dec 12, 20152 min read

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

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