The Graphic Mac

InDesign’s Master Pages are quite powerful, and make long documents easy to keep consistent. They do have their difficulties though when you try to alter items that are contained on the Master Pages themselves.

Easily override InDesign's Master Page items

Rather than using your mouse to invoke Photoshop’s color/patter Fill dialog box, you can use the quick keyboard shortcut, which is Shift + Delete.

Google recently released the first public beta of their Chrome browser for Mac. While it’s speedy as heck, it lacks many basic features such as bookmark management/organization. Another popular feature the Mac version lacks is extension support. That is, until now. READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE.

As Christmas day approaches, I want to thank everyone who has visited The Graphic Mac – and wish you all a safe and joyous holiday. I hope you all get everything from Santa that you had on your wish list!

Smashing Magazine is offering a handful of free Christmas theme images for download. You can grab them here.

A feature I love about InDesign is the ability to click any graphic frame with the text tool and begin typing in it immediately. However, not everyone likes their graphic frames converted to a text frame automatically. For those who wish to turn the feature off, simply visit your InDesign preferences (Command + K) and select Type in the source list on the left. Then uncheck the box labeled “Type Tool Converts Frames to Text Frames.”

The League of Movable Type has released Junction, a beautiful sans serif typeface with an old-style serif look to it. Junction is an OpenType font with upper and lower case letters, punctuation and numbers; and is free to use for personal and commercial projects.

I must admit, Mac users are a bit strange… or at least, some of them are. Here’s the one hour documentary film, MacHeads, that covers the life and times of Mac users.