Adobe Indesign CS2

Make your own glyphs set and save yourself the trouble of repeatedly hunting and pecking around in the Glyphs palette to find the special characters you’re after. This is especially useful if you need to mix and match glyphs from different fonts. Two minor gripes: there’s no way to make your own custom [...]

Located on the obscurely named Story palette, Optical Margin Alignment hangs your punctuation outside the edges of the text frame, preventing the appearance of visual holes on the right edge of your type. You get most benefit from Optical Margin Alignment working with justified type, but because it also adjusts the [...]

Glyph scaling is the adjustment of the horizontal scale of your type, specifically for the purpose of achieving better justified type. Allowing the horizontal scale of your type to be anything but 100 percent may sound like a type purist’s nightmare, but applied judiciously—and working in conjunction with Word Spacing and Letter Spacing—Glyph [...]

Tirelessly working behind the scenes to determine the best line breaks and optimal word spacing of your paragraphs, the Adobe Paragraph Composer is an option you’ll probably never need to change. Rather than compose your paragraphs on a line-by-line basis, the Paragraph Composer, in partnership with [...]

For all its complexity and sophistication, Adobe Indesign CS2 is a remarkably simple and intuitive program to use. That said, unless you’re working with it on a regular basis, some of its features may go unnoticed or misunderstood. Some of InDesign’s most important typographic tools are buried away in submenus; [...]