Questions that refer to manipulating a text layout, styling and/or management in graphic software.
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Font (anti)aliasing in Photoshop
I'm using Photoshop for designing websites and whenever I compare a photoshop design with the live browser preview the fonts appear to be rendered differently.
Basically any anti-aliasing method I ...
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2answers
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Using Photoshop - how do I make text “wrap” (break) around an image like in the images linked in this post?
Example 1:
Example 2:
Is there a simple and semi-automatic way to do this? I know I can do it manually, but there ought to be some way to make the text automatically break when it reaches some ...
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2answers
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What is the difference between “wrapped” text and “constrained” text?
This question is based on the comments on this answer to another question.
What is the technical difference between text that is "wrapped around" a shape as opposed to text that is "constrained by" a ...
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2answers
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How to fit text box size to text?
I want to fit the artboard to selected art (two text boxes) - the text boxes are larger than the text inside them - how do I fit (shrink) them to wrap tightly around my text?
Illustrator version - ...
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1answer
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Turning a text “string” into a text “block” in Photoshop CS6?
If I select the Type tool, click somewhere in my composition and type in some text, it appears that I cannot resize the area the text occupies without resizing the text itself.
However, if I click ...
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3answers
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Convert text to paragraph text in Illustrator
Is there any quick way to convert text created at point (automatically resizable boundaries) to a area (paragraph) text (with fixed boundaries) in Illustrator CS3?
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2answers
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What are the best practices and techniques to fix rags?
What would be the best practices to fix the rags on a left aligned text for print.
Besides breaking lines and hyphenations, should you use tracking, and if so how much.
Also, how would you judged a ...
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3answers
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Readability and appeal of justified text
If I write a document that I have to hand in to somebody (a report, summary, draft, whatever) I usually justify the text because it seems more appealing (at least to me) if it all finishes at the same ...
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1answer
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How long of a name do you budget for in a template?
I'm designing a name overlay for a series of videos and I'm curious how long of a name I should budget for without knowing what ones might come my way.
As it's for a video it should be reasonably ...
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2answers
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Editable two side text
Here's what I want to achieve:
pretty simple right? BUT, I'd like the text to remain editable in a simple manner, that is:
Editable text (no outlined font);
Only one line of text (any change has ...
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4answers
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How to show background texture through text placed on background in Photoshop?
Say you have an image of a wall or an old, creased piece of paper and you want to add text on that background. How can you make the texture of the background come through the new text in Photoshop so ...
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2answers
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Highlighting text in Adobe InDesign
I want to have inline code snippets in my InDesign document. Similar to how StackExchange does it, like this. So the gray background is perfect. Basically I just want to highlight certain text. ...
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2answers
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Illustrator Text Bounding Box Resize
I have an illustrator file, and I need to resize the bounding box of all the components, without changing the size of the text. Is there an easy way to do this, or do I have to go and rewrite all of ...
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2answers
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How do I type Arabic text in Photoshop?
I want to type Arabic text in Photoshop, but the text appears disjointed and the letters do not connect at all. For example محمد appears as م ح م د.
I'm using Photoshop CS6 on OSX Mountain Lion.
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2answers
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Change Background Color of Text Box in Illustrator CS5
Any way to change the background color of a text box without all the workarounds such as placing another shape behind the text.
I need to have a textbox filled with color of 249, 249, 249 and a ...
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2answers
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Will text laid out on an image in Photoshop, when printed look pixelated? Or sharp enough?
The title really says it all. I want to design a poster for my home. But here's my question, if I lay out the text in photoshop, save it and then print it - will the text look pixelated? Or sharp ...
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1answer
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Adobe illustrator: symmetrical editing of card indices (A, K, Q, J, etc.)
I have a set of playing cards in FXG format serving as asset for a Flex card game.
However the indices of the cards are in English language: A, K, Q, J and my game is in a different language.
My ...
