• 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…

  • Quark Breaks Ground on Quark City in India

    Denver-based Quark, Inc., makers of InDesign-rival professional desktop publishing software QuarkXPress, is building its own city in Mohali, Punjab, India. After 18 months of planning, the foundation stone was laid by Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh early this morning (U.S. time). The chief minister hopes the project will generate “25,000 direct and 100,000 indirect…

  • BlogRolling.com Over and Done With?

    Does the blogosphere still need a service like BlogRolling.com? Should it be BlogRolling.com, or is it time for a competitor to rise up? Now that BlogRolling.com is owned by the not-so-cool Tucows, BR doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy brand loyalty as it did as a one-man operation started as a labor of love.…

  • BBC Switch to Adobe Not a Trend, Says Quark

    Computer Business Review Online interviews Gavin Drake, marketing director of Quark Systems, Ltd., the UK arm of Colorado-based Quark, Inc., maker of would-be InDesign rival, QuarkXPress. Following a series of announcements of high profile publishers and creative organizations switching from QuarkXPress-based publishing and layout systems to Adobe InDesign was last week’s declaration of BBC Magazine’s…