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Raphaël Freeman
- Dec 28, 2018
- 2 min
6. Optical Weights
Optical weights are designed to be set at different sizes so in our example above of the footnotes, we might set the footnotes in the small
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Raphaël Freeman
- Dec 21, 2018
- 2 min
5. Who or What is More Superior?
This is the fifth of a 10-part series of the Ten Keys to Seamless Typesetting. In our last installment we talked about the importance of...
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Raphaël Freeman
- Oct 28, 2018
- 3 min
4. To Cap or Not to Cap?
If I were to ask you what laser or radar stands for, you might be surprised to find out that they are both acronyms. You can click on the wo
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Raphaël Freeman
- Mar 25, 2018
- 1 min
Marking the PDF after the pictures have been placed
However, if the quality of the image is not good enough for press, then the image will be imported as large as possible such that it will be
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Raphaël Freeman
- Mar 2, 2018
- 3 min
2. Ligatures
The most classic ligature is the fi ligature. If you look at the image at the top of this page, you will see in the Arno font, if the f and
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 26, 2018
- 3 min
1. Text Figures (old-style numbes)
There are essentially four sets of numbers (ignoring superscripts etc.) that we need to deal with. Just like the letters of the alphabet, we
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 2, 2018
- 1 min
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....
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Raphael Freeman
- Dec 20, 2017
- 1 min
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...
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Raphaël Freeman
- Dec 6, 2017
- 1 min
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...
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Raphaël Freeman
- Sep 29, 2017
- 6 min
Oops I made a mistake
History It’s worth taking a step back to see how the process worked not that long ago. You would have typed up your manuscript on a...
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Raphaël Freeman
- Apr 12, 2017
- 4 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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
- Mar 2, 2017
- 3 min
Page Margin Calculations
There are various systems in calculating the margins around the page. My favorite is the above. The top and inside ( i ) margin are 1/9 of t
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 15, 2017
- 3 min
What is the Half-Title Page?
In a previous article, The Anatomy of a Book, I discussed the various elements that exist in a book. Essentially the prelims, the body of...
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 14, 2017
- 1 min
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
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Raphaël Freeman
- Feb 3, 2017
- 3 min
The Typesetter’s Dream Setup
So how does one build the ideal typesetting setup? Ultimately it comes down to the display. Not the memory, nor the processor. I even put in
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Raphaël Freeman
- Jan 31, 2017
- 1 min
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
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Raphaël Freeman
- Jan 30, 2017
- 3 min
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
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Raphaël Freeman
- Jan 27, 2017
- 3 min
Typesetting Mistakes From the Inauguration Invitation – Lessons for Every Designer
This particular problem continues throughout the program. On page 6, however, things start to deteriorate. Although the designer used true s
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