• Adobe Shares What Happens In Vegas With The World

    Adobe Shares What Happens In Vegas With The World.–The Design Weblog–design.weblogsinc.com Today Adobe announced Acrobat 7.0 and The Design Weblog is right on top of it with a detailed report on the feature-rich, more mature glue that holds the Adobe creative workflow together. “ Acrobat 7 is not the complete overhaul that was Acrobat 6,…

  • Blog Problems, MT Falling Apart

    Grrr! Moveable Type, the blog software that drives this blog, is falling apart. Error after error, problem after problem. Auto-pinging has always been an issue. Posting and commenting out of memory errors happen sporadically every few months. Now no one can comment on my posts because MT is claiming MT-Blacklist is broken. Neither the MT…

  • QuarkXPress 6.5: Revolutionary… Or Desperate?

    Last week Quark released QuarkXPress 6.5, a hint, an intimation, perhaps even a promise, of where Quark 7 may take us next year. The 6.5 upgrade, available free of charge to all registered Quark 6 users, has new features, though none of them insurgent. Not in today’s desktop publishing dominated by the agile, feature-packed InDesign.…

  • Free X1 Desktop Search (worth $75)

    Do you like free? If you follow this link, and are one of the first 100 to link back to the (original, not this) post from your blog, Jason Calacanis will give you a free license for X1.com, the computer search tool Calacanis says “blows Google Desktop software out of the water. X1 has really…

  • Digital Output On Quark vs. InDesign

    In a very well balanced article Digital Output magazine weighs in on QuarkXPress vs. Adobe InDesign. Though nothing new to Quark vs. InDesign readers, the article is an interesting read if you ignore the occassional factual flaw (for example: at one point a source is quoted has having “spent a couple of years ‘playing with’…

  • Book Review: Moving To InDesign

    With delight I opened David Blatner’s new book, Moving To InDesign, because any book written or co-written by David is a delight. This one was no exception. Moving to InDesign, by Blatner, Smith, and Werner. (2005 PeachPit Press) Co-authored by Christopher Smith and Steve Werner, Moving To InDesign is a roadmap for QuarkXPress and PageMaker…