May, 2002 | CreativePro Network

For Position Only: Getting Hip to PDF Forms

A few weeks ago in a column about Adobe’s business direction, I mentioned that Acrobat can do amazing things with forms. Allow me to elaborate. Electronic forms may not be the most glamorous use for PDF files, but they’re incredibly useful. You’ve probably encountered them when dealing with the Revenue Service: That agency is reputed […]

Real World Tips for QuarkXPress 5: Contextual Menus

Excerpted from “Real World QuarkXPress 5” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. Context-Sensitive Menus QuarkXPress 5 introduced context-sensitive menus to QuarkXPress. Context-sensitive menus-menus that appear wherever your cursor is, and which change depending on what you’re clicking on-have been around in other programs for […]

dot-font: Letters as Art

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 […]

Digital Pop Art: Unleash Your Inner Warhol

This story is taken from “The Design Authority” (Element K Journals). When you think of pop art, what comes to mind? Probably the repetitive prints of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe created by Andy Warhol or maybe the bold comic-like paintings created by Roy Lichtenstein. In this article we’re going to show you how to […]

Under the Desktop: What’s Klez and Why Is It After Me?

As card-carrying members of the caste of information workers, creative professionals rely heavily on e-mail services. A steady stream of messages is necessary for the everyday functioning of our business. So something that could disrupt that flow, might give us pause, right? My concern of the moment is the W32/Klez worm and its many variants, […]

Real World Tips for QuarkXPress 5: Starting Up

Excerpted from “Real World QuarkXPress 5” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. What makes David Blatner’s QuarkXPress books so valuable is that they’re full of productivity enhancers that may seem small but which have a big impact on your page-layout workflow. To kick off […]

The Digital Dish: From Fireworks to Flash and Back

I’m always surprised by how many dedicated Flashers (those working with Macromedia Flash, not the ones hanging around dark alleys) use bitmap-editing tools rather than Macromedia Fireworks. Not since Martin and Lewis has there been a better combination than MacromediaFireworks and Flash. The division of labor is nicely handled — Fireworks takes care of the […]

The Art of Business: Mastering Virtual Project Management

It’s rare that a creative professional works in a vacuum these days. Aside from the traditional give-and-take with vendors and co-workers, the nature of today’s projects requires contact with a wide range of co-contributors. Chances are you’ve been a player many times in this virtual game, but if you want to step up your career, […]

For Position Only: Seeing the Light of Digital Photography

If you’ve read my column, even once, you know that I’m a curmudgeon. True, I love technology and all that it can do to make our jobs more efficient and our tasks easier to complete. But I’m also a skeptic, and I’m loathe to change an opinion once I’ve formed it, even if facts and […]