March 16, 2006
Illustrating Yesterday’s Point
Notice how the top graphic is blurry? For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how to fix this inside Word. The spacing between each word looks okay, but looks can be deceptive. See the image below.
After I imported my document into InDesign, I reformatted the text to full justification. This is the result of a document that hasn’t been “cleaned” of my word processor’s code. Now I have to figure out how to implement this. Masterson’s book outlines this clearly, but unfortunately, I’m using a word processor other than Word for my current projects. (sigh)
[…] To make a long story short, my word processor (They all suck.) and InDesign are waging war over code formatting. See what I mean by clicking here. When I import the file from Word (or in my case, Nisus Writer) into InDesign and use full justification, the paragraphs get littered with spaces. Now, it is my job to figure out how to “clean up” the code inside the word processor. […]