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Do You Do Bad Desktop Publishing?

Ransom note desktop publishing looks erratic, haphazard. But it can also be less obvious bad design. Are you guilty of kidnapping good design?

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Create Inline Diagonal Fractions

Monday May 28, 2012

The 7/18 and 3/4 on the bottom right are both built-up fractions.Using an expert character set or math font may be the ideal way to insert inline diagonal fractions but if you only use them now and then it may be simpler to just construct your own. All it takes to make custom fractions is a slash bar and some resizing and shifting of the numbers.

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Announcing a New Baby: Layering on the Love

Sunday May 27, 2012

Marble and Brown Paper Birth Announcements CollectionMy latest collection of birth announcements feature layers of textures and shapes. These are Microsoft Publisher templates and each file contains wrappers for roll candy, bar candy, and a quarter fold card. You could use the candy wrappers for baby showers then have matching cards to announce the new arrival.

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Digging Into Windows Character Map

Saturday May 26, 2012

Search for a character by name.Do you use Windows Character Map often? (I'm speaking to Windows folks, not Mac, obviously) It's a handy little utility that is probably underutilized by most of us. But there are some neat things you can discover about your fonts just by taking a stroll through the Advanced features of Character Map. You may discover you have more dingbats than you thought or discover a new way to find oddball characters that you only need now and then.

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Post Your Baby's Birth With These Announcements

Friday May 25, 2012

The Cork Post-it Collection of Birth Announcements by Jacci Howard BearWill there be a new addition to your family anytime soon? I've got a fresh batch of birth announcements for that boy, girl, or twins. And if you're having more than twins just use the candy bar wrappers and make as many as you need to hand out in bunches of three, four, or more (I have twins myself. How do you handle more than a double?). I created these in Adobe Illustrator but exported them as PNG images that you can pull into your desktop publishing software of choice to personalize and print. There are candy wrappers, quarter-fold cards, and a half-letter size image that you can use with half-fold greeting cards paper. I call this my Posted on a Cork Board Birth or Adoption Announcement Template Collection.

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