It’s easy to create a row of boxes for inputting credit card numbers on a form:
Just use the ballot box glyph from the Webdings font, and then apply negative tracking to the boxes, so that their left and right edges overlap without doubling up. In QuarkXPress, use -12 in the tracking field in the Measurements palette. Be sure not to justify the line though, because that will spread the boxes out.
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20. March 2009 at 4:22 pm
Thanks for sharing. That was precisely what I thought of.
23. March 2009 at 9:45 am
Thanks, Vanda! I’m about to post another tip about making a “data comb” (like the one above, but without tops on the boxes. Here’s the gist of it:
Create a one-row, multicolumn table, then Control-click on the top side of the table and set its color to None. Adjust the number of columns to equal the number of letter spaces you need.