February, 2002 | CreativePro Network

Under the Desktop: Bright Monitors, Big Chips — The PMA Highlight Reel

Forget Disneyworld and Epcot Center. Or the natural stars at Gatorland. The hottest ticket in Orlando this week was the Photo Marketing Association’s PMA 2002 convention and tradeshow, according to reports from the show floor. I’ve gathered together a couple of PMA announcements that focus on image quality, from a groundbreaking sensor technology that could […]

On the Move to InDesign: Formatting Text

If you’re familiar with Adobe Illustrator, InDesign’s Tools palette should look very familiar. However, you may wonder about that tiny “T” just under the Fill and Stroke icons. That button changes formatting from affecting the container (XPress users think “box”) to changing the text. Figure 1 First select the text frame with either of the […]

Scenes from Seybold Seminars

Jaw-dropping product announcements were few and far between at last week’s Seybold Seminars — at least publicly. Behind closed doors Adobe conducted briefings on Photoshop 7.0, announced Sunday. The predominant theme on the show floor and in conferences was the ubiquity of two three-letter acronyms: PDF and XML. But leave it to the New York […]

Photoshop First Look: What’s Up with Number 7

Adobe just announced Photoshop 7.0, so I wanted to give you a quick look at some of the cool new stuff they packed into this slick upgrade. I know you don’t want me to blab on and on about the history of Photoshop, and what this upgrade means, blah, blah, blah — you just want […]

An Interview with Seybold President Gene Gable

If there’s a single face that’s associated with Seybold Seminars and Publications, it’s the bespectacled visage of president Gene Gable. Mr. Gable recently sat down with MacCentral to discuss Seybold Seminars, the publishing and content management industries, and the state of technology within and without the Macintosh space. It’s no secret to attendees of this […]

dot-font: Kerning Chads

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 […]

For Position Only: Digital Wallscapes = Visual Pollution

Being a proponent of digital publishing technology and a resident of San Francisco sometimes puts me in an awkward position. Like a few years ago during the dot-com boom: As I chronicled with great excitement the role of this new mode of communication and how it changed the way we think and work with print, […]

On the Move to InDesign: Converting Quark Document and Template Files

You may have heard that InDesign can convert document and template files from QuarkXPress 3.3 or later. (No, InDesign will NOT convert XPress 5 files. How could it? XPress 5 was released two days after InDesign shipped!) How does it work? InDesign converts the original file information to native InDesign information. Simply choose File > […]

The Creative Toolbox: A First Look at GoLive 6.0

I’ve been using Adobe GoLive since its first incarnation. In its previous five versions, it’s gained powerful, unique features and undergone a couple of name changes. First, it was GoLive CyberStudio, which was then abbreviated to its current name when Adobe acquired its developer in 1999. With version 5, Adobe brought us Smart Objects, a […]