Real World Adobe InDesign CS4- P4: The book uses Robert Slimbach’s Minion Pro, an Adobe OpenType face, which was particularly useful when moving files across platforms. Code samples are set in Lucas de Groot’s TheSansMonoCondensed. A few other fonts were used for example characters. | 78 REAL WORLD ADOBE INDESIGN CS4 size of the font . InDesign always uses the standard em space so you may see minor differences in kerning tracking and so on. QuarkXPress flex space characters convert to standard word spaces. Some uppercase characters with accents display and print differently in InDesign than they do in QuarkXPress. Superior type style. InDesign does not have a superior formatting attribute. InDesign applies the superscript type style to text formatted using this attribute. Kerning and Tracking Tables. QuarkXPress lets you build custom kerning pairs and tracking tables while InDesign does not we re hoping this will appear in a future version . If your document uses these text will reflow accordingly. If you really need custom kerning we suggest using a font-editing program like FontLab to build the kerning pairs directly into the font. Image Adjustments. If you used Other Contrast or applied a halftone screen to a JPEG or TIFF image in XPress InDesign simply ignores it. Colors. Any HSB LAB or Hexachrome colors are converted to RGB colors InDesign does not support Hexachrome . OLE Publish and Subscribe. InDesign has no ability to handle images imported using Publish and Subscribe which doesn t even exist in Mac OS X anymore and Windows OLE. Gradients. Most of QuarkXPress s special effect blend gradient types such as Mid-Linear Blend and Diamond Blend are ignored and replaced with a plain linear or radial gradient. XTension Formatting. Quark XTensions add functionality to QuarkXPress but InDesign may not be able to replicate any formatting created or applied by an XTension for example custom underlines special box types and so on. PageMaker Files As you convert or prepare to convert publications from PageMaker to InDesign keep the following in mind. Pasteboard items. Any objects on the pasteboard in a PageMaker publication are placed on the pasteboard of the first spread in the converted publication. Master page items. All master page items are .
