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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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If you already owned a com­plete set of man­ual screw­drivers, would you buy an elec­tric with just the basic flat and Philips heads?

InEffects 1…

Variable Data Publishing (VDP) proof-of-concept puts a satel­lite photo of all 40,000 sub­scribers’ neigh­bor­hood on their indi­vid­ual copies of Reason magazine…

Would I like to see com­pe­ti­tion remain in the lay­out appli­ca­tion mar­ket? Yes, whole-heartedly. Quark, Inc. only got as good as it did because it began as an upstart com­peti­tor to PageMaker. But I also believe in reap­ing what you sow. Quark, Inc. has stepped on its users and ignored them for so long because users had no other choice but QuarkXpress, that Quark, Inc. has become a real bad guy in the indus­try. I want to see Quark, Inc. finally real­ize the con­se­quences of its actions, just like every­one else. It would be good for the mar­ket if Quark, Inc. did so, then learned from its mis­takes and man­aged to stay alive to build a bet­ter application.

I don’t advo­cate the demise of Quark, Inc., I pre­dict it. There’s a major dif­fer­ence there.

In a com­ment on my post “I Shout ‘Quark Sucks!’ Loudest” Alan men­tioned this sur­vey. Apparently Quark, Inc…

Not only am I the top two hits on Google for “Quark Sucks”, but my opin­ions on the Quark-InDesign war are being quoted and ref­er­enced all over the place…

Macworld UK—Quark chief’s nuts yield poor return

Quark CEO Fred Ebrahimi’s fam­ily nut hold­ings dropped in value yes­ter­day after sales slipped…

Fred Ebrahimi, CEO of Quark:

We’ve just announced QuarkXPress 7 will ship on November 1st, and XPress 8 will ship on December 20th…

If you go to Google​.com and type in “quark sucks” (with or with­out the quotes), my site—specifically some op/ed dia­logues I started—is the top two listings…

Macworld Magazine, cover date September 2003, from let­ters to the editor:

Congratulations to Pamela Pfiffner for deliv­er­ing the most amaz­ing scoop I’ve ever seen in Macworld: Quark is com­mit­ted to its cus­tomers and giv­ing them what they want (”The World According to Quark,” June 2003)…

I’m writ­ing this from the 2003 HOW Design Conference in New Orleans and I see Adobe. There’s Apple. Pantone’s around. A dozen paper ven­dors are here…

I’m still laugh­ing at Quark 6. I’ve seen it. I’ve played with it…

Translation of Selected Portions of Last Week’s “QuarkXPress 6 Feature Overview” Announcement from PR-Speak to English

I won­der how long after ini­tial release it will take for them to release the 6.1 patch that makes it work

I orig­i­nally started this as a response to Blind Energy’s com­ment on my ear­lier post Quark: Adobe’s Best Friend…

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