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Acrobat’s Stamp tool can pre­vent a lot of con­fu­sion if you use it for things like explain­ing Lorem Ipsum place­holder text and FPO images on client proofs. But rather than set­tling for Acrobat’s generic stamps, you can cre­ate your own. Yeehaw!

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New edi­tions of Creative Suite tar­get print, web, video, and gotta-have-it-all designers.

Monday was a busy day for Adobe with announce­ments of new prod­ucts, upgrades, and even poten­tially cat­a­strophic secu­rity holes in PDF.

British secu­rity researcher has dis­cov­ered, proven, and pub­lished ways to use legit­i­mate fea­tures of PDF files to deliver mali­cious code pay­loads and even search and retrieve data from any con­nected data source on a tar­get computer.

New soft­ware devel­oper onOne Software pur­chases pop­u­lar line of pro­duc­tiv­ity enhance­ment prod­ucts for Photoshop and QuarkXPress.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 28, 2005—Quark and X-Rite (NASDAQ:XRIT) announce two new color man­age­ment bun­dles exclu­sively for QuarkAlliance members…

In a recent inter­view with Investors Business Daily, Stephen Elop, CEO of Macromedia, expressed con­fi­dent opti­mism about the Adobe-Macromedia merger, the DOJ inves­ti­ga­tion, and cus­tomer reactions…

FlightCheck Studio Resolves Design Problems With Quick And Easy Detection And Correction!
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Rijswijk, The Netherlands—(QUARKvsINDESIGN…

World leader in dynamic enter­prise pub­lish­ing releases the lat­est ver­sion of their XML-based auto­mated script­less pub­lish­ing sys­tem.
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San Jose, CA—(QUARKvsINDESIGN…

Will XPress 7.0 be the upgrade that puts Quark back on top? CreativePro.com’s Gene Gable spent two days at Quark’s Denver head­quar­ters to find out and emerged with a cau­tiously opti­mistic exclu­sive report that delves deeper into what Quark has let out of the bag so far–and hints at a few things they haven’t.

How would you fill type with art­work or imagery? Would you do it in Photoshop or Illustrator…

As Adobe and Macromedia await word of DOJ rul­ings on the impend­ing merger and what will become of the com­pa­nies’ com­pet­i­tive prod­ucts, both move for­ward with stock­holder votes. But if applications–DreamWeaver, GoLive, FreeHand, FireWorks, or Homesite–have to sell, who is likely to buy?

History 2.0 plug–in for Adobe InDesign and InCopy is released
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Prague, EU—(QUARKvsINDESIGN…

A new deal with Scholastic hopes to increase Quark expo­sure among future gen­er­a­tions of Australian cre­atives, but the cur­rent state of Quark tech­nol­ogy, cou­pled with the 200% markup for QuarkXPress down under, has the design­ers of today and tomor­row run­ning straight into InDesign’s arms. We have to ask: Is Quark really woo­ing Australian cre­atives, or should we use another verb that rhymes with wooing?

Over at CreativePro​.com, the cur­rent weekly con­test prize is a copy of Adobe CreativeSuite 2 Premium Edition…

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Electronic-Publishing Talks Quark VS InDesignIn the cur­rent issue of Electronic-Publishing edi­tor Keith Hevenor details the his­tory and rivalry of the desk­top pub­lish­ing giants, as well dis­cussing EP’s own tran­si­tion from Quark to InDesign…

There’s been a lot of talk lately about Variable Data Publishing (VDP) sup­port on the desk­top. VDP solu­tions exist for InDesign—and more are on the way. But what are those solutions…

Adobe share­holder claims announce­ment to buy Macromedia breached fidu­ciary duty to share­hold­ers.
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Quark has been talk­ing up Job Definition Format (JDF) sup­port in the upcom­ing release of QuarkXPress 7. But, isn’t JDF already being used with InDesign CS2

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DENVER—(QUARKvsINDESIGN.com)—June 21, 2005—Quark Inc…

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DENVER—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 9, 2005—Today Quark announced that effec­tive imme­di­ately, Kamar Aulakh is no longer with the company…

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ZAANDAM, THE NETHERLANDS—(QuarkVSInDesign.com)—June 6, 2005—WoodWing Software has intro­duced Smart Catalog ver­sion 4…

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