Welcome to the first installment of my new monthly column, “Around the World in ePublishing with Pariah Burke.” Each month we’ll look at a different digital publication—sometimes an ebook, sometimes an e-textbook, sometimes a digital magazine or catalog. With each publication we’ll examine the techniques and technologies used, the good and bad choices the designer […]
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For the first time in a quarter century, Microsoft has unveiled a new logo. The new logo is essentially a simplified and straightened version of the Windows logo, consisting of four equally sized squares of red, green, blue, and yellow. Gone are the curves, the gradient fills, and the drop shadows. According to the official […]
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• Creative Cloud subscription special offer ends Aug. 31!
• How to collaborate with non-InDesign users
• Quizzler! How many ways can you …
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Complex Rasterized Regions
Are you ready to make some ruby slippers like Dorothy’s from the Wizard of Oz? Just click your heels together three times and say, “there’s no place like CreativePro.”
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I was the younger brother of two Girl Scouts, with a mother who served as a troupe leader. So I was dragged along to a lot of Girl Scout activities, most of which I remember being rather fun. We went ice skating, we toured local factories (okay, it was just a big bakery and an […]
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Tired of the ever-present “instructions.txt” file in your folders? Here’s a solution.
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It’s great that you can combine photographs with vector artwork inside Adobe Illustrator. But sometimes you might decide that you want to crop part of a placed photo. Do you then need to go back to Photoshop to crop the image? Heck no! Illustrator is quite capable of cropping placed images (as well as its […]
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Love Monty Python? Would you like a free copy of Adobe CS6 Production Premium? Then here’s the contest for you. It’s called Animate Chapman, after the late member of Monty Python, Graham Chapman. The contest is being sponsored by Adobe and runs through October 22, 2012. To enter the contest, you take one of the […]
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Recosoft announces PDF2ID v3.5 – Convert PDF and Windows XPS files to editable InDesign CS4-CS6 files. Press release. Osaka, Japan, August 23, 2012 – Recosoft Corporation the developer of the PDF-to-iWork conversion tool PDF2Office® for iWork; InDesign® to Word and InDesign to PowerPoint® converter ID2Office®; PDF2Office family of PDF to Office and OmniGraffle conversion tools […]
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