QuarkXPress 7: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

It’s the most pow­er­ful, most feature-packed ver­sion of QuarkXPress ever built, they said. It stim­u­lates cre­ativ­i­ty and inspires organ­ic work, they claim. They said it will rev­o­lu­tion­ize pub­lish­ing. Quark VS InDesign​.com goes deep­er into QuarkXPress 7 than any­one before to see if they were right.

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 …

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 …

InCopy CS2, the World; World, InCopy CS2

Go in deep for a long over­due exam­i­na­tion of InCopy, the fea­tures new to ver­sion CS2, how InCopy cut one major pub­lish­er’s 60-day book pro­duc­tion sched­ule down to 9 days, and how it will save you time, man-power, and mon­ey over Microsoft Word in a col­lab­o­ra­tive cre­ative and edi­to­r­i­al workflow.

Special Report: InCopy CS2: In Production

A spe­cial six-part series intro­duces InCopy CS2, reviews the fea­tures and lim­i­ta­tions to the InDesign/InCopy work­flow, and explains why design and edi­to­r­i­al both need to use InCopy CS2–beginning yes­ter­day. The …