• They Liked My Book

    I got official word yesterday that the publisher liked my proposal and outline for an Illustrator CS 2.0 (aka Illustrator 12) how-to book. So, pending my conversation with the acquisitions editor about contract and scheduling–which shouldn’t pose any issue at all–I’ll be writing my first book. As I see it, my main job with this…

  • First Look: InDesign 4

    Characterized as “future technologies,” will these features be in this Spring’s upcoming fourth release of InDesign, dubbed CS 2.0? David Blatner reports on InDesignupdate that ad hoc demonstrations from Adobe provided sneak peeks into the future of InDesign, though the software maker was as careful as ever not to commit to inclusion of any features…

  • DTP Tools Makes InDesign History

    DTP Tools makes history filling in the last missing piece of InDesign CS History for InDesign CS publisher: DTP Tools platform:   price: $39 usd rating: Toward the end of an InDesign training class or seminar one of my favorite things to do is to use InDesign’s undo history to step backward through the preceding…

  • ‘Innovate or Die’ Has Become Quark’s Mantra

    With the PSD Import Xtension and QuarkVista Quark began innovation that must continue for XPress 7 to provide an alternative to InDesign. In response to “First Look At QuarkXPress 7,” layout artist and occassional Quark VS InDesign contributing writer Samuel John Klein observes: “ It’s past time Quark supported OpenType. Good decision, but like migration…

  • Blog Design: Watch Your Width

    For a moment, I am going to dip into web design to illustrate why Deep Green Crystals is an example of extraordinarily bad blog design. More accurately, I am not dipping into web design; I am illuminating basic facts about readability, for the web or anywhere. In doing some research about tags and services like…

  • First Look At QuarkXPress 7

    At the TypoTechnica 2005 conference in London Thursday, Quark Inc. showed off QuarkXPress 7, which it characterized as “the most significant upgrade in the product’s history.” In an hour-long demonstration to press, type designers, font technology developers, and graphic communications professionals Quark’s Gavin Drake, UK director of marketing, and Scott Weiseler, the Quark product analyst…