March, 2000 | CreativePro Network

AdVisual 2.0

AdVisual 2.0 by AdWare Systems, Inc. is a paperless solution for the management of marketing communications information. AdVisual 2.0 is integrated with the IBM DB2 Digital Library™ technology and infrastructure. It provides a custom environment for the digital storage, retrieval, and distribution of full-motion video, radio, print ads, supplier invoices, and multi-page documents. AdVisual 2.0 […]

Quark DMS

The Quark Digital Media System (QuarkDMS) is a central repository of digital content that can continually be built upon and drawn from. The system is centralized on a server and is accessible through a local area network or via the World Wide Web. Administrators are able to track asset usage and control who has what […]

Extensis Portfolio 5.0

Extensis Portfolio is an award-winning asset management program allowing for the organization, viewing, and sharing of digital content among a group of users across networks and platforms. Users can distribute many of the most popular file formats including images, sounds, movies and graphical documents to other group members, or to clients and customers. Included in […]

Corel Puts On The Gloves

Masking images can be a tedious process, especially when edges are indistinct. Tree branches, leaves, grass, and other organic forms are perennial nuisances, while fur and flyaway hair are next to impossible to crop. Corel KnockOut (formerly available as Ultimatte KnockOut) aims to make such chores easier. Its sole function is to knockout difficult image […]

Eye On the Web: The Importance of Navigation

Reading a book is easy: you start at one end and go until you reach the other. Same thing with a magazine. Maybe you skip over a few of the articles, maybe you’re just looking at the pictures or the horoscopes, but as long as you have it in your hands you know you’re reading […]

Iomega Zip 250 USB

Iomega Zip 250 USB The Iomega Zip 250USB is the latest incarnation of the popular “SuperFloppy” solution from Iomega. When introduced in 1995, the Zip drive was the challenger to the 44 or 88mb SyQuest, then the dominant removable storage media on the market. Zip drives were widely adopted by the prepress world, where the […]

Designers Need to Flex Print Muscle

While it’s true that you could probably stay inside your house for a year by relying on Internet services, one of the greatest strengths of the Web is that it fosters communities and relationships, not isolation. Graphic designers, for example, suddenly have the opportunity to define a whole new way of buying and managing print, […]

Hard Cider: Chuck Green Shares Strong Desktop Publishing Foundation . . .

Some of us are fortunate enough to have had a teacher who has influenced us and changed the course of our lives. These teachers are often personable, friendly, helpful, knowledgable and genuinely interested in their students’ success. Their goal isn’t to simply dish out homework, give grades, and go home once the day has ended. […]

Review: Axis Print Server 1440

The great thing about inkjet printers is that they’re cheap and they print with a remarkably high level of quality. The bad thing about them is that they’re usually designed to be used with a single computer. So what if you have more than one computer and want to be able to print from either […]