• Adobe Drives the VDP Bandwagon with New VDP Resource Center

    Coinciding with Creo’s debut at Graph Expo 2004 of the Darwin Variable Information plug-in suite for InDesign CS, Adobe announced today the launch of the Adobe Variable Data Publishing (VDP) Resource Center, an educational resource for creative professionals, marketing departments and print service providers that aims to kick-start the adoption and implementation of VDP solutions.…

  • New Spring 2005 Colors Debut; Download Exclusive Swatches Palette

    Any good graphic designer knows the new, hip graphic and industrial design colors are dictated by the fashion world. Last night the fashion world proclaimed the colors for Spring 2005. Download them here. Simultaneously evoking the Mediterranean Sea and the American Southwest, soft Blue Turquoise topped the list of colors at New York Fashion Week’s…

  • Dynamic, Variable Information Document Design Comes to InDesign, Courtesy of Creo

    As desire and demand for InDesign-based workflows rises, so does the need for InDesign-based workflow extensions. Critics of InDesign often cite as reason to avoid it the proliferation of QuarkXPress add-ons, called Xtensions, the absense of whose equivolents for InDesign keep the Adobe newcomer from breaking into high-end, complex production workflows. Creo’s Darwin Variable Information…

  • WoodWing Releases Smart Layout CS for InCopy & InDesign CS

    WoodWing Software today announced the launch of Smart Layout CS v3.1. As the next generation of Smart Layout (SL), this product works with the CS versions of InDesign and InCopy and introduces many improvements over previous SL versions. Smart Layout CS v3.1 adds the Article Concept (the ability to combine all a page’s elements into…

  • WordPress or MT 3?

    I want things like future posting, something I have on my pro blogs The Design Weblog and Magazine Weblog, but MT 2.6x doesn’t currently offer. I’ve been missing so many Saturday Slants lately because, when Saturday rolls around, I’m usually on a plane. If I could write it on Thurs or Fri, to activate on…

  • Quark v. InDesign Duel at MacExpo 2004

    At MacExpo 2004, which runs November 18-20 in Islington, London, the highlight is sure to be the day one duel between Adobe InDesign CS and QuarkXPress. Chris Kitchener from Adobe and Shellie Hall with Quark will be championing their respective contenders in the desktop publishing showdown. They will attempt to prove, in front of an…