To learn more about data archiving and image preservation, come to David’s session “Archives for the Ages: Preserving Your Images and Data” at Seybold San Francisco, September 8-12, 2003. Peering into the mailbag, I recently found an item about the durability of CD-Recordable media. Content creators like audio-conscious consumers are familiar with burning discs, and […]
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PDF files can wear many hats, depending if your final destination is print output, onscreen viewing, or Web download. While that versatility is what makes the PDF format so popular, it can also lead to file-preparation nightmares. The PDF/X standard was created to help head off common prepress mistakes like missing fonts and incorrect color. […]
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For more information about The Seybold Report click here. When it launched XPress 6 on June 10, Quark ended the wait for one of the most anticipated software releases in recent years. Seventeen months after its competitor, Adobe InDesign 2, was released in a Macintosh OS X version, Quark has released a product that runs […]
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Carl Dair, an expert typographer, reveals the secrets of typographic contrast in his series, A Typographic Quest.
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In my review of QuarkXPress 6.0 a few weeks ago here on creativepro, and in David Blatner’s article this week, lots of comparisons are being made between Adobe’s InDesign and XPress. I made the comment that neither of the two programs are particularly innovative, and that the differences between them are not all that exciting […]
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This story is taken from “Integrated Web Design.” New Riders is offering this book to creativepro.com readers at a special discount. Click here to learn more. In the early days of the Web, most designers were perfectly happy to remain above the programming fray. They’d focus on aesthetics and let the nerds handle the complexities […]
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Editor’s note: There is perhaps no one more knowledgeable about page-layout applications than David Blatner. Author of “Real World QuarkXPress,” long considered the definitive book on QuarkXPress, Blatner has lately turned his attention to Adobe InDesign. He co-authored “Real World Adobe InDesign 2” and, most recently, “InDesign for QuarkXPress Users.” He also speaks at conferences […]
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It may be too early to say for sure (and with this economy, optimism is best kept in check) but economic indicators seem to suggest that the recession is finally coming to an end. And while it may be a painfully slow recovery, at least the ice is starting to melt from corporate spending accounts. […]
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Attendees at this month’s Macworld CreativePro conference and expo will get the first public look at the forthcoming Power Macintosh G5 workstation. Version 10.3 of Mac OS X, aka Panther, may be given somewhat less exposure to the public, on the other hand. Yet with a powerful imaging technology under the hood, along with a […]
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