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Acrobat X Pro is a fan­tas­tic appli­ca­tion with across the board func­tion improve­ment, phe­nom­e­nal con­tent export capa­bil­i­ties, incred­i­ble task and doc­u­ment pro­cess­ing automa­tion power, and the abil­ity to cre­ate com­pelling doc­u­ment dis­tri­b­u­tion pack­ages.
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A range of new fea­tures and updates, com­bined with zip­pier per­for­mance, make the new Illustrator CS5 com­pelling for Web and appli­ca­tion design. Here’s our com­plete review.

If you use Illustrator, you’ll want to know how to use the Gradient Mesh fea­ture. Part one of this two-part series reviews the basic prin­ci­ples of gra­di­ent mesh.

One fea­ture of QuarkXPress around since the early days is Save Page As EPS, located on the File menu. The major draw­back to using this fea­ture, though, has always been that fonts aren’t embedded…

PRESS RELEASE
New and enhanced fea­tures pro­vide value to pub­lish­ing and mar­ket­ing work­flows; next gen­er­a­tion pre­view demon­strates com­mit­ment to open stan­dards and inte­grated solu­tions
NEUCHÂTEL, Switzerland — October 5, 2006 — Quark Inc…

This week BarryCon, the orga­nizer of the Creative Suite Conferences and the InDesign Conferences, debuted a free video pod­cast. The open­ing round is a tuto­r­ial from Sandee Cohen, aka VectorBabe, and its guar­an­teed to make you ooh and ahh.

Changing the doc­u­ment size in Illustrator via File > Document Setup does not update the rulers to accom­mo­date the new doc­u­ment size…

Need to adjust the color of your guides on the fly…

Updating linked images can be tedious, espe­cially if the XPress doc­u­ment has trav­eled across sys­tems and every image must be updated…

When scal­ing an object up or down, its stroke may end up look­ing too spindly or too thick in rela­tion to the object if Scale Strokes is turned off…

Need to change the shape of a path? Click some­where on the path with the Pencil tool, and begin draw­ing. The path will incor­po­rate your revi­sion.
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