August, 2003 | CreativePro Network

Font Fatigue: A Word About OS X Folder Terminology

Most Mac OS X documentation refers to a hierarchy of folders like this: /grandparent/parent/child The first “/” refers to the base of the file system (referred to as the “root” but not to be confused with the “root” user — oh, never mind). A single / by itself refers to the top level of your […]

Font Fatigue: Terminal Madness

If you never use the Terminal application in Mac OS X, don’t bother reading this. I happen to like Unix, so I’m always using the Terminal. Strange things happen if you have the Terminal’s font set to Monaco (the default), but don’t have the Mac OS X version of Monaco active. Take a look at […]

Font Fatigue: Pruning Excess Fonts in Mac OS X

In my first “Font Fatigue” column, I identified six font locations in Mac OS X. In reality, there can be more. Consider this: Each user has his or her own fonts folder. This is as it should be in a multi-user system such as Mac OS X, but it does add to the number of […]

The Art of Business: Deploy the SWOT Team

As the saying goes, we often have trouble seeing the forest from the trees. And it’s understandable; we know our operations and ourselves so intimately that it’s hard to measure or compare ourselves objectively. When large companies have the same problem, they engage in an exercise called a SWOT analysis. As its abbreviation suggests, SWOT […]

Under the Desktop: A Creative Pro Looks at Linux

Walking the aisles of last week’s LinuxWorld conference and expo, I checked out some of the latest and greatest Linux applications and hardware. While a small show, taking up just one hall of San Francisco’s Moscone Center complex (and the smaller one at that), on display were plenty of blade computers (thin, pizza-box-style servers that […]

Web Design Tips: Making Site Comps and Prototypes

This story is taken from "Designing Web Graphics.4." New Riders is offering this book to creativepro.com readers at a special discount. Click here to learn more. Because our interaction with the Web is only through the computer screen, we may not think about translating our ideas about Web sites to paper. But making preliminary drawings, […]

Acrobat Tips: Graphics in PDFs

Editor’s Note: The following article was written with Acrobat 5 in mind and does not specifically discuss the recently released Acrobat 6, although it has been reviewed for accuracy and relevance to the new software. Any discussion of graphics in PDFs is inherently closely related to the specific content, intended uses of the PDF file, […]

dot-font: Type You Can Use Again and Again

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 […]

Heavy Metal Madness: The Creative Pro Next Door

There’s been a lot of action in and around my letterpress print shop the past few weeks, and all of it has reminded me of why I like the publishing and graphic arts industries so much. Despite complete lack of organization, inconsistent training programs, and confusion over job definitions, the creative professional market is larger […]