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In addition to training and consulting, seminar tours and Webinars, I am a prolific author in the creative and production professional spaces. I’ve authored or co-authored quite a few books and written somewhere north of 250 tutorials and articles published in many of the most respected industry magazines and Websites. Below are some of my recent articles

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MEI to debut Innovative Ads solution, new IPS WebTrac at NEXPO 2007

Event will also fea­ture K4 Publishing System 5.7 and highly antic­i­pated K4 Web Editor

Quark XPert Tools Pro Xtensions—Free!

Quark to give­away XPert Tools Pro, a suite of 16 xten­sions for QuarkXPress 7.

HumanEyes Debuts Turnkey 3D Lenticular Creation Solution for Designers

Designers cre­ate 3D with newly-shipping Creative3D; then post job to Creative Marketplace to get price & time quotes from lentic­u­lar printers

Zevrix Solutions Releases ArtOptimizer for Reducing Linked Image Size in Adobe Illustrator Documents

Zevrix Solutions today announced the release of ArtOptimizer, a work­flow automa­tion solu­tion for reduc­ing the size of images linked to Adobe Illustrator document.

Graphic Inspector 1.0 Release

Zevrix Solutions today announced the release of its new soft­ware Graphic Inspector, which pro­vides exten­sive info about graphic files and helps locate poten­tial prob­lems accord­ing to user defined settings.

Atlantic Zeiser combines OMEGA Inkjet Systems with Phoseon RX Starfire UV Systems

Phoseon’s water-cooled RX Starfire pro­vides higher out­put and capac­ity for faster cur­ing times, and is well suited for UV inkjet applications.

Extensis Ships Suitcase for Windows Professional Font Management for Workgroups and Single-Users

Extensis improves Windows-based font man­age­ment and adds com­pat­i­bil­ity for Windows Vista.

ImageSwapper for InDesign Ships

XChange International announce release of ImageSwapper plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS2

Sort InDesign Menus Alphabetically

Sometimes you know the name of a com­mand but just can’t seem to find it in the menu. Conveniently (quirk­ily?) InDesign allows you to re-order menu com­mands alphabetically…

Callas Software: pdfaPilot Takes Off as Command Line Module

Automatic PDF/A pro­cess­ing with pdfaPi­lot CLI The pdfaPi­lot of callas soft­ware, the inno­v­a­tive tool for thor­ough PDF/A ver­i­fi­ca­tion, cor­rec­tion and con­ver­sion, will be offered as a com­mand line mod­ule (CLI) from 01 March 2007. pdfaPi­lot comes in two dif­fer­ent ver­sions, one for pure val­i­da­tion and the other for val­i­da­tion as well as cor­rec­tion and con­ver­sion tasks. As a CLI mod­ule, pdfaPi­lot will allow an auto­matic PDF/A processing.

Callas Software Presents the New pdfInspektor4 CLI

The new pdfInspektor4 CLI—the command-line tool for auto­matic PDF pro­cess­ing in dig­i­tal work­flow systems—is not only fully com­pat­i­ble with Adobe Acrobat 8 now, but also con­tains a num­ber of improve­ments which make it more effec­tive, quicker and more reli­able for the user to auto­mat­i­cally process large amounts of incom­ing or exist­ing PDF documents.

Sort InCopy Menus Alphabetically

Sometimes you know the name of a com­mand but just can’t seem to find it in the menu. Conveniently (quirk­ily?) InCopy allows you to re-order menu com­mands alphabetically…

Change Measurement Systems on the Fly

You prob­a­baly already know that you can type into just about any of InDesign’s mea­sure­ment fields a value based on any mea­sure­ment sys­tem InDesign under­stands. For instance, if the doc­u­ment uses pica for mea­sure­ment, you can still spec­ify height,…

Corel Introduces Corel Painter X

Next-Generation Art Studio Delivers a Natural Painting & Illustration Experience Unmatched by Any Other Software

Fix Tool Keyboard Shortcuts

A long time ago, in a val­ley far, far away, Adobe Acrobat had one-button key­board short­cuts to com­mon tools…

Hide Palettes

If you’ve worked in Adobe appli­ca­tions for any length of time you prob­a­bly already know that press­ing TAB will hide (and then show) all opened palettes…

Remove Text Boxes from a Thread

Need to remove a text box here and there with­out com­pletely break­ing the thread? Just delete the unwanted box(es)…

XChange International announce MadeToPrint technology update for QuarkXPress 7 and Adobe Acrobat 8

PRESS RELEASE
XChange International, the source for extended tech­nol­ogy world­wide, are pleased to announce the imme­di­ate avail­abil­ity of MadeToPrint XT for QuarkXPress 7 (Macintosh and Windows) as well as MadeToPrint for InDesign CS/CS2 for Acrobat 8 compatibility…

Quark Expands Leadership Team

Quark names SVP of cor­po­rate mar­ket­ing and com­pany CIO

Remove Text Frames from a Thread

Need to remove a text frame here and there with­out com­pletely break­ing the thread? Just delete the unwanted frame(s)…

Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization

AIIM to Facilitate ISO Standards Process for Leading Electronic Document Format

Adobe Debuts Photoshop Lightroom 1.0

Over 500,000 Beta Testers Help Shape New Digital Photography Software

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