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dot-font: A Font Pirate Is Brought to Justice

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 […]

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Under the Desktop: Sussing Broadband’s Dynamic Leader

Following a short run of bad luck during its ramp up phase — brief only when compared with continental drift — broadband Internet access is finally making its way to previously neglected neighborhoods. Depending on the access technology, you could face a choice of the more common dynamic and the more expensive static IP addresses. […]

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Under the Desktop: Eye-to-eye with the Eye-One

Many content creators may appreciate the benefits of a color-calibrated workflow, but that awareness is often intellectual, rather than drawn from regular hands-on experience. Instead, color calibration is the good thing that happens to someone else, like the winner of the weekly Lotto. So I was understandably interested when offered the chance to put GretagMacbeth […]

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On the Move to InDesign: Selection Tools

Perhaps the biggest transition when moving to InDesign from XPress is the difference between the programs’ selection tools. Instead of the Item and Content tools in XPress, InDesign has Selection and Direct Selection tools. It’s actually not too difficult to make the transition if you just remember the following: The Selection tool acts like the […]

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Flash MX: Enabling the Rich Internet

Macromedia is done putting the finishing touches on Flash MX, the latest version of its flagship Web animation and interface development tool. Released on March 15, we looked at a late beta version of the product, and with its new video and audio capabilities, streamlined and “Macromedia-standard” workspace, and new tools, it looks as though […]

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