June, 2000 | CreativePro Network

OpenType Ushers in New Era of Typography

Surely you remember when the upstart TrueType font format leapt onto the scene to challenge the entrenched PostScript Type 1 format. The subsequent battles that raged left many creative professionals bloodied. Today OpenType proves once again that peace is better than war. OpenType is the umbrella name for an initiative launched by Adobe and Microsoft […]

Eye on the Web: In Search of Tolstoy

There are a gazillion venture-capital-backed people out there taking great pains to turn the Web into something approximating television. Another gazillion are trying to turn it into the world’s largest shopping mall. Add to that the gazillion or so set on transforming the Web into a super-huge jukebox, and how many people does that leave […]

dot-font: The Man Who Launched 1,000 Fonts

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro. If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking […]

Whatever Happened to Photo CD?

For several years I took the message of Photo CD to photo labs and creative professionals in 16 countries for Eastman Kodak Company, as a consultant and trainer. My message was that Kodak’s scanning system — comprising a Sun Sparc minicomputer, a CD writer, and a Kodak-manufactured scanner — was a great way for photographers […]

The Creative Toolbox: ImageReady Slices Away at Your Workload

A few years ago, one of the truly tedious tasks for a Web designer/producer was the creation and optimization of Web graphics. First we had to plan out how the Photoshop build was to be split up or sliced so that each slice fit nicely with the arrangement of the HTML table layout. Relying solely […]

Shooting It Like It Is

Angela Wyant finds herself drawn to “things that have stories to tell, but no people to tell them.” She keeps an eye out for vacant gas stations, diners, barbershops, and farms, as well as industrial settings. She finds meaning in public and personal spaces, and in open landscapes. Wyant’s interest in photography began almost grudgingly […]

Eye on the Web: Time for a Little Soul Searching

You hear it all the time. You probably say it all the time. Someone mentions they’ve been looking for something on the Web, a recipe for oatmeal cookies say, and the first response of anyone even cursorily acquainted with the Internet is, “Well, did you do a search for it?” Time was there were so […]

Epson Stylus Photo 1270 Delivers Large, Lasting Images

Bright colors and tiny dots alone simply don’t cut it anymore for high-quality inkjet printing. We’re past the point where it just has to look good: It now has to look good and last. Epson’s $499 Stylus Photo 1270 does both in spades. It also handles Super B-size print jobs, accommodating media as large as […]

For Position Only: Short Take on a Long Show

Last time I shared the news from Dusseldorf, where the huge Drupa trade show took place last month, but perhaps after you read through the laundry list of announcements I presented, you asked yourself, "So what?" Excellent question. I’m glad you asked. Short-Term View The computer-to-plate (CTP) news at the show, most pundits agree, was […]