• Overcoming the Top 5 Pain Points of Switching from QuarkXPress to InDesign

    A lot of designers are making the move from QuarkXPress to Adobe’s InDesign. But if you’re a proficient QuarkXPress user, some features of InDesign seem counterintuitive, confusing and downright frustrating. Below, learn how to overcome the top five pain points. 1. Quark’s Runaround versus InDesign’s TextWrap In QuarkXPress, runaround is the process of forcing text…

  • What is a JPF file and how do you use it?

    What is a .JPF file? JPF is the file extension for a JPEG 2000 file, which, at its most basic, is the next generation of JPEG (aka JPG). The JPEG file format was created in the Nineties by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (see the symmetry here?). JPEG 2000, also created by the Joint Photographic…

  • CreativePro Weekly Giveaway: InDesign CS2

    Our friends over at CreativePro.com are giving away a copy of InDesign CS2 this week in their weekly giveaway. Already got InDesign CS2? Enter to win anyway–it makes a great gift or Mac-warming present for a friend’s new computer.

  • InBrief: Adobe, Formerly Macromedia

    Latest news about the acquisition from around the world. Links open in new windows. Macromedia Is Now Adobe (Designorati) Beth Dean laments the loss of FireWorks and speculates on the merger’s resulting product line. … Ben Forta's ColdFusion Blog: Hello From Adobe (Web Services Journal – Montvale,NJ,USA) Yes, I now work for Adobe. Although, what…

  • Adobe-Macromedia Deal to Seal on Saturday

    Tomorrow, smoothest software company acquisition in recent memory to close. Following Friday’s confirmation of regulatory approval in all necessary jurisdictions, Adobe Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADBE) will complete the more than $3 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR) on Saturday, 3 December 2005. Shares of both firms soared to yearly highs following the news, with…

  • Macromedia: Merger With Adobe To Be Final 3 December 05

    Macromedia announces date on website From the press release at Macromedia’s website: “ Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) and Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced they have either received or been notified they will receive all regulatory clearances necessary to complete Adobe’s pending acquisition of Macromedia. The companies expect to close the transaction on December…