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Kerning Hebrew diacritics in InDesign
In Hebrew, there are some diacritics which occasionally need to be combined. However, a frequent result is that they will all be centered, leading to a stack of characters which need to be re-kerned. ...
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How can I make skybox drawing easier in Photoshop?
I am using Photoshop CC to draw a skybox -that is, an image composed of six sub-images that seamlessly assemble into a cube, like this:
As soon as I started drawing, I noticed that it is very ...
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Add git log as table to InDesign Document
I use Indesign CC as last step in document processing. The source is written in markdown and converted via pandoc to an InCopy-Document which gets linked to a text frame in InDesign.
The whole ...
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How can I automate header pages in InDesign?
InDesign newbie here.
I have an ID document containing only a Table of Contents, and then a header page for each of the items on the table of contents. So far, I've been creating each of these pages ...
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Inconsistent kernings shown in metrics view in FontForge
I am working to modify an existing font (Sacramento, under SIL OFL license), and wish to adjust kernings after having made a few stylistic changes.
I thought I had found the proper way to do it (...
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How can I draw a loopback connector using Inkscape connectors
In drawing a state diagram (nodes connected by one-way arrows) I need that some nodes connect to self.
I want to draw a connector like the one in the example, which I made up with a circle shape.
I'...
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Does Ink Manager use official Pantone recommended values?
I was wondering if anyone knows if you use the Ink Manager to convert Pantone Spot Colors to CMYK in InDesign is the outcome an official Pantone recommended value?
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Photoshop: why won't layer styles render correctly?
Been trying to search for an answer online for quite a while now but can't seem to find anything new. I'm familiar with layer styles and I've been merging them down to rasterize a layer, but for some ...
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Acrobat Pro: how to add multiple custom stamps at once
Is there a way to add many custom stamps at once? Adding within the program only allows one stamp to be added at a time (I have 71 to add). I tried adding the image files to the stamps folder within ...
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Is there a way to create a dockable palette for Photoshop with ScriptUI?
I am using ScriptUI for the first time and would like to create a custom palette with several text boxes and buttons that can be conveniently docked into the Photoshop UI.
Can this be accomplished ...
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Create your font with custom glyph not found symbol
I am new to creating/editing fonts. I want to create a font with custom symbol for "glyph not found". I have downloaded FontForge as it seems to be a widespread free font editing program. I was hoping ...
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program to create simple animations for visualization?
I'm looking for a small and light program that allows me to create simple animations for the purpose of visualization. I want to be able to create animations similair to this.
Usually, I do ...
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Isolated > medial substitutions in FontForge
I've been working on a font for a fictional language (Ta'agra from Skyrim) and I'm having issues getting the substitutions to work. It's supposed to be written similarly to Arabic where each letter ...
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A font with custom ligatures (for music)?
I want to make a custom music font that can be typed in Microsoft Word 2010, but I cannot get custom ligatures to work. In Word 2010, I have in Font > Advanced the Ligatures option set to 'All'. I ...
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After Effects Scripting : fontSize adjusted to boxTextSize Script Optimization
I need Help Improving and optimizing a Script.
I'm fairly new to java and scripting in general and I've been Trying to do a script that would increase the font Size of a text until it fully fills it'...
