• Quark Announces Winner in Art Insititutes Contest

    Winner declared in contest amongst AI students across the nation; will get seen at Macworld San Francisco Press Release: DENVER – December 21, 2005 – (Quark.com) Quark Inc. announced today the results of the graphic design competition it sponsored for students attending The Art Institutes system of schools. The competition, sponsored by Quark for the…

  • Macworld UK: QuarkXPress 7 To Go On European Tour in ’06

    Magazine reports that XPress 7 to have ‘roadshow’ during months of Jan, Feb While the official release date of the much-anticipated QuarkXPress 7 is still a matter of speculation, with Quark saying they will be rolling it out sometime in 2006, Macworld UK online is reporting that Quark will be taking XPress 7 on a…

  • Perfect PDFs

    After a couple of weeks as lead feature stories, my two-part “Add Reader-Friendly Finishing Touches to Your PDFs” have been used as the foundation for PDFZone.com‘s “Making the Perfect PDF” special report. My aforementioned articles are the two leads, and my “Using PDF Layers,” a tutorial about proofing design clients with layered PDFs, is also…

  • My Last Day With…

    Five minutes ago I got the ninth “this is my last day with” message since Thanksgiving. I recognize the fiscal concerns that justify to companies year-end RIFs (Reduction In Force–layoffs or terminations). But, Christ! Have fucking heart! Nine people at different companies with whom I do or have done business have sent out e-mails announcing…

  • Go Hands-On with QuarkXPress 7 at Macworld

    Register to tryout QuarkXPress 7 hands-on. Next month’s Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco will feature hands-on classes where you can try out the as yet unreleased QuarkXPress 7. The classes will demonstrate and allow attendees to try out new features such native support for transparency, OpenType, and XPress 7’s upgraded layout tools. Fifteen…

  • WhiteList Spam Attacks Threaten Blogs and Email

    Spammers are employing a new tactic to attack blogs, and it’s a tactic that could bring down anti-spam measures protecting not only the Blogosphere, but e-mail too. Blog spammers are attacking blogs with their typical messages, but they have a new, ingenious, and potentially catastrophic trick. They’re incorporating links to legitimate, respectable domains into those…