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Monthly Archives: February 2003

Under the Desktop: Moving Client Files Safely

Anyone who touches a Web site is familiar with the Internet’s File Transfer Protocol (FTP). It’s the standard way remote servers send and receive files. In fact, it’s become a verb in our community: “I’ll ftp it,” is a common expression. At the same time, most professional designers with corporate clients also use the protocol […]

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Photoshop How-To: Making Great Prints

Adapted from “Photoshop 7 Artistry: Mastering the Digital Image” (New Riders Publishing). Purchase this book here. Making Epson Prints When Using Custom Profiles When you print an image using a custom profile, you first want to use Image>Mode>Convert to Profile to convert your master image from your Lab or RGB Color Space into the space […]

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dot-font: The Readable Type Designer

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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Illustrator Tips: Exporting Print- and Web-Ready PDFs

The PDF format has been around for quite awhile, but its usage online and in print has exploded in recent years. As more companies expand their Web presence, they’ve found PDF to be an exemplary way to distribute information to their clients, as you can see from the examples in figure 1. Even Uncle Sam […]

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Heavy Metal Madness: The Horrors of a Global Marketplace

Introduction: Creativepro editor-in-chief Pamela Pfiffner has been kind enough to provide this valuable access to me so that I might chronicle my efforts to restore and operate several pieces of vintage letterpress printing equipment and an Intertype hot-metal line-casting machine. It is imperative that I get Pam off the hook right from the start by […]

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Plug-Ins and XTensions: Photoshop Focusers, InDesign Text Measurers, QuarkXPress PDF Distillers

Each month Design Tools Monthly reviews some of the best plug-ins and XTensions on the market. Most of the mentioned products can be purchased through The PowerXChange. InDesign Text-Measuring Wizard SoftCare’s Text-O-Meter is a plug-in for InDesign or an XTension for QuarkXPress 3 and 4 that not only counts the number of characters or lines […]

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Bit by Bit: Wiping the Slate Clean about Student Software Copying

My most recent column about students and software piracy stirred-up a lot of controversy. As of this writing, 65 of you have responded with comments about the ethics of software piracy and the reasoning behind my article. Some of the comments were vitriolic, some were praiseworthy, and I thank you for the responses. This is […]

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