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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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Marking the PDF after the pictures have been placed

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

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. Wh...

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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 th...

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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 p...

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Raphaël Freeman

Sep 29, 2017
5 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 typew...

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Widows and Orphans: Some of the Most Common Typesetting No Nos

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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Word vs InDesign for your Book: an Expert Analysis

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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How to prepare your book for typesetting

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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Typesetting Mistakes From the Inauguration Invitation – Lessons for Every Designer

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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Raphaël Freeman

Jan 20, 2017
5 min

The Anatomy of a Book

I’m going to list the pages here in the order that I usually typeset books, but of course each publisher will have their own rules and it’s

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