Graphic Design Weekly Newsletter - Friday, June 27, 2014

Top new questions this week: Where should drop cap be suitable? I wonder where drop caps should be used. So far, I only see them in column of newspaper. Are there any cases which drop caps shouldn't be used, like in scientific papers or brochures? typography typesetting   asked by Ooker 15 votes answered by tchrist 13 votes How is this product box with windows / hologram effect created? I'm trying to replicate the visual effect of this product box: How is this created? What type of materials should I use? packaging product-design   asked by cemetarywind 10 votes answered by Brendan 6 votes How to visualise two-dimensional scientific data-points in a chart... in grayscale? I am not sure whether this is the correct site for this question. The model comes from Physics, the data comes from computational physics, the plot is made with LaTeX but my question is about the … information-design diagram feedback data-visualisation chart-design   asked by queueoverflow 5 votes answered by Scott 2 votes How to make wind flow / aerodynamic diagrams? I need some help on how to create good looking vectorized images of these kinds of themes: I work a lot with Latex when it comes to typesetting so I have some basic experience with Tikz. However … vector graphics information-graphics   asked by Jack 5 votes answered by joojaa 10 votes Making multiple vectors one single vector in Illustrator I have a company logo in vector repeated multiple times to make a pattern/background. I want to apply a halftone to it, but to do so I need to make all the repeated vectors into one single vector. I … adobe-illustrator vector   asked by Brett 4 votes answered by Scott 3 votes how to print saddle stitch booklet from a Indesign book file? I was wondering if anyone knows how to print saddle stitch booklet from Book File? I know how to do it from normal Indesign file. However, book file is different since there are so many different … adobe-indesign pdf print book   asked by user21055 4 votes answered by Alan Gilbertson 4 votes What is the font used in IE 10 source? I would like to change my font in Aptana to this font, but i don't know what font family internet explorer source is using. Regards. font-identification   asked by tudor 4 votes answered by Brendan 7 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Illustrator equivalent to Photoshop's skew tool In Photoshop the skew tool allows you to move each corner of the object being skewed independently. Is there an equivalent in Illustrator? Envelope distort seems overkill and harder to achieve the … adobe-illustrator transform skew   asked by Tom R 4 votes answered by Cadin 6 votes Folder to put fonts for Illustrator CS6 without having to install fonts in system I remember there used to be a folder I could just put fonts in and they would work for Adobe InDesign. I thought it was a folder called fonts in the same directory the InDesign document was. I tried … adobe-illustrator fonts adobe-indesign font-management cs6   asked by at. 2 votes answered by plainclothes 4 votes Can you answer these? Export Artboards to separate PDFs (Illustrator) I was wondering if there's a way in Illustrator CC to export artworks containing multiple artboards, to multiple single-paged .pdf files, as Illustrator already does for images like .jpg files. EDIT: … adobe-illustrator pdf export creative-cloud   asked by Ivan 1 vote How can I connect two disjoint paths in Sketch App? For example if I draw a oval and then want to paint part of it into different color, how can I connect edge points of my new path with oval? vector sketch   asked by dig 1 vote Is dark UI pleasing to general app consumers? I noticed there is not so many dark apps on the app store. With few exceptions such as Spotify, it makes me wonder. On the other hand, Android seems to embrace dark colors a bit more. Is there any … color color-theory ui user-experience applications   asked by user26300 1 vote

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