Enough Whining About the Adobe-Macromedia Merger

Recently, Quark VS InDesign​.com read­er Woz men­tioned his con­cern over the Adobe-Macromedia merg­er because of an edi­to­r­i­al he found on the blog Daring Fireball. Fortunately for Woz, that edi­to­r­i­al was …

Adobe Dragging Its Feet with Intel-Macs? Not Quite.

Popping up on blogs and mes­sage boards is the pos­tu­la­tion of the the­o­ry that Adobe and oth­er soft­ware ven­dors have already had plen­ty of time to recom­pile their appli­ca­tions to …

Win Illustrator CS2 @Work

This week (25–31 December 2005), Creativepro​.com is hand­ing out five signed copies of my acclaimed project-based book Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work in their week­ly give­away. Unlike any soft­ware book you’ve …

Win Illustrator CS2 @Work

Win one of five signed copies of Pariah S. Burke’s acclaimed project-based book Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work in Creativepro.com’s week­ly give­away. Adobe Illustrator CS2 @ Work Unlike any soft­ware book you’ve …

InBrief: Adobe, Formerly Macromedia

Latest news about the acqui­si­tion from around the world. Links open in new win­dows. Macromedia Is Now Adobe (Designorati) Beth Dean laments the loss of FireWorks and spec­u­lates on the …

Adobe-Macromedia Deal to Seal on Saturday

Tomorrow, smoothest soft­ware com­pa­ny acqui­si­tion in recent mem­o­ry to close. Following Friday’s con­fir­ma­tion of reg­u­la­to­ry approval in all nec­es­sary juris­dic­tions, Adobe Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADBE) will com­plete the more than …

Quark's "New Face" Is Live And On The Web

New Flash-based web­site makes the case for the new Quark Inc. The face of NewQuark​.com Denver-based Quark, Inc. estab­lished a new web­site this week. Titled “The New Quark”, and locat­ed at …

A Newsletter Designer Looks at InCopy CS2

Adobe’s InCopy promis­es ben­e­fits from increased col­lab­o­ra­tion, with Adobe’s famed inte­gra­tion with InDesign CS2, for editorial/creative lay­out work­flows as a stand-alone appli­ca­tion for work­groups of 2–12 mem­bers. Does it deliv­er? Associate Editor Sam Klein gives it the acid test, finds the benefits.

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 …