Thursday, March 8, 2012

About Desktop Publishing: Justify Your Alignment

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From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing
Sure, it looks all nice and neat but justified text alignment can be tricky to pull off -- unless you just don't care about odd word spacing. However, there are certainly times when it makes sense. Just, please, do it right.

Forced Justification
Probably not used very often (a good thing!), this type of fully-justified text makes even short lines stretch from margin to margin. Learn more

Block Style
It can refer to fully-justified text but not necessarily. It's a common format for business letters. Learn more

Use Centered Text Sparingly
In my opinion, it's way over-used but there are times when centered text is the right way to go. Learn more



 


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