Planet Quark

Some OpenType fonts have an extended character set, which means that for some characters (also known as Glyphs), there are alternate designs. Here’s a quick and easy way to see and apply any alternates that are available for a selected glyph:

Open the Glyphs palette (Window> Glyphs). Select a glyph in your text and then choose “Alternates for selection” from the pop-up menu in the Glyphs palette.

To replace the existing character with any available Alternate, just double-click the Alternate in the Glyphs palette.

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Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has developed an auto-trace tool that is dramatically more accurate than the tools in either Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw.

Named VectorMagic, it’s only available only as a service on their website, for about $2 per image. You upload your image and they return the vectorized version of it. Their example results are stunning. Have a look!

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There’s no need to go to preferences to quickly change the unit of measure — just Control-click or right click on a ruler and choose among inches, picas, points, millimeters, etc.

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