• It’s A Go!

    U.S. Department of Justice gives the all clear to Adobe-Macromedia merger. DOJ stamp of approval leaves few obstacles to merger. In a joint press released issued late this afternoon, Adobe Systems Incorprated (Nasdaq: ADBE) and Macromedia, Incorporated (Nasdaq: MACR) announced that they have received clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice in Adobe’s proposed–and now…

  • Special Report: InCopy CS2: In Production

    A special six-part series introduces InCopy CS2, reviews the features and limitations to the InDesign/InCopy workflow, and explains why design and editorial both need to use InCopy CS2–beginning yesterday. The InDesign/InCopy workflow is an extremely simple, powerful, and, in collaborative creative-editorial environments like periodicals and books, important leap forward with massive bottom-line ramifications. Every InDesign…

  • Insider Software Announces Free FontAgent Pro 3 Auto-Activation Plugin for InDesign CS2

    New free plugin provides font auto-activation for InDesign’s most recent update On 6 October 2005, Insider Software, maker of FontAgentâ„¢ Pro 3 and the new font management utility Smasher, released a plugin for InDesign CS2’s most recent version, 4.0.1. This plugin update provides automatic font activation for users of FontAgent Pro 3. Insider reports that…

  • ALAP Announces Update to InEffects Plug-in

    Newly announced update to version 1.0.1 adds support for InDesign CS2, addresses known issues InEffects is incredibly cool! A Lowly Apprentice Production, Inc. (ALAP) has released an update to their InEffects InDesign plug-in product. The update brings InDesign CS2 support and is said to address known issues in the 1.0.0 version, and is available as…

  • Jupitermedia Launches Adobe LiveCycle Developer Center

    New skills-based portal focuses on premier intelligent documents platform. A key component of Adobe’s Intelligent Document platform as well as Adobe’s vision of the paperless future, Adobe LiveCycle is the suite of technologies and desktop and server applications that drive PDF form-based data collection processes. Adobe LiveCycle is a family of products including LiveCycle Designer,…

  • E&P: XPress 7’s Composition Zones Hint At Workflow Improvements

    New feature to allow simultaneous collaboration on layouts, promising workflow improvements in news design. Here, you work on this part, while I work on this. In a column online at Editor & Publisher, columnist Mark Fitzgerald accents a feature in the yet-to-be-released QuarkXPress 7 that breaks, as the title says, the One File=One Layout equation.…