The release of the Acrobat 6.0 family of products represents a significant signpost in the grand journey of PDF and Acrobat. By extending the collaboration features of the Acrobat product family to include managed review processes, Adobe Reader-enabled commenting and forms fill-in, Acrobat has evolved into the central point of an electronic, collaborative workplace. Collaboration […]
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My mother always said, “Don’t mix politics and graphic arts,” but since I ignored most of my mother’s other advice, I’m going to shine this tidbit as well. I began to doubt my mother’s wisdom about the time she made up those rubber-band-in-the-eye stories, and started chronicling the various fatal ailments you could get by […]
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All right, first things first: I know you’re a bit freaked out about this upgrade being named “Photoshop CS” rather than Photoshop 8. Don’t feel bad — we’re all a little freaked out, but once you see how the whole “CS” works together, it makes more sense (I didn’t say I liked the name, I […]
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Let’s start by getting the obvious out of the way: The name Macromedia Studio MX 2004 is a mouthful. I had my doubts when Macromedia launched the Studio MX moniker more than a year ago, deciding to append all its major application names with MX and launch Studio MX as its product suite. Well, now […]
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I don’t know what it is about Petaluma, California, but as Gene Gable so aptly described in his previous column, there seems to be a surfeit of publishing and graphic art types who live here — Gene and myself included. I think it’s because we’re all left-handed rebels who much prefer the rolling hills and […]
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This story courtesy of PaperSpecs.com). Thirty years ago, my newlywed brother brought his bride from Israel to Seattle for a visit. The family threw itself into entertaining her, showing her all the touristy sights we never see ourselves because we live here. So we took her to Pike Place Market, where the fishmongers throw dead […]
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Creative professionals have a natural interest in the speed of storage for scratch disks and also in storage capacity for their large files. With the changes in the storage market over the past five years, I bet most readers can imagine a workday without SCSI. Sure, no problem. I bet many of you don’t even […]
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This story courtesy of BookTech magazine. For more information click here. Preparing files for output is full of potential booby traps. The wrong files, missing images, nested graphics — all these can gum up your prepress process and add hours (and dollars) to your printing bills. Failure to abide by the rules of your print […]
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Each year I find my way to Chicago to attend the Graph Expo or Print trade show (the names alternate annually, but they look like to same show to me). My reasons are numerous. One is to see what’s new in the printing business; another is to chat with clients and associates in the trade […]
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