Linotype Presents TypoTechnica 2007

Only a few weeks remain until Linotype raises the curtain on TypoTechnica 2007. The conference takes place at the Gutenberg Schule in Frankfurt, Germany, from April 27-29 and offers typography professionals the opportunity to delve into such cutting edge topics as scripting with Python and Non-Latin typography as well as many other advances in font […]

Total Training Helps Adobe Creative Suite 3 Users Get Up to Speed

Total Training™, Inc., a pioneer in engaging and innovative video-based training, today announced five new DVD-ROM based training series: Total Training for Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Extended: Essentials, Total Training for Adobe Illustrator® CS3: Essentials, Total Training for Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional: Essentials, Total Training for Adobe InDesign® CS3: Essentials, and Total Training for Adobe Dreamweaver® […]

Adobe Unleashes Creative Suite 3 Product Line

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 product line, a revolutionary offering of tightly integrated, industry-leading design and development tools for virtually every creative workflow. Adobe’s new Creative Suite 3 line-up unites the best of Adobe and Macromedia® product innovation to provide designers and developers with a broad spectrum of creative […]

Remote Workflow Support in InCopy/InDesign CS3

With CS1 or CS2, an InDesign/InCopy workflow works best when everyone (design and editorial) has read/write access to the same local file server. If an editor working from home wants to use InCopy to edit stories in the layout, the best you can do is to e-mail him a mess of files (assuming you can figure out which files to send them), hope that he doesn’t rename or rearrange any files at their end, keep your fingers crossed that he sends you back the right ones and hope you remember where to put them.

That’s all over with in CS3. Both InDesign and InCopy now offer a spiffy “Package” command in their Assignments panels that take care of automating all of the above, and more. In fact, with CS3 it’s possible to run a completely virtual workflow if you want: One designer, umpteen remote InCopy users, all keeping each other up to date with e-mailed Packages. Let me show you how the new remote workflow works in four simple steps!

InDesign CS3 Inside InDesign CS3!

One of the most useful features in InDesign CS3 is also one of the most unexpected: You can now place an InDesign (INDD) file inside another InDesign file! Being able to place an INDD file into another can enable some new collaboration workflows. If you wanted to hand off a portion of a layout to […]

A Mystery Revealed

Return to “If You Can Read This, You’re Hired” The Translations Thanks to Patrick Martin for sending visual translations of the want ads that were so good, I decided to co-opt them for my own use here. Figure 1 translated: Figure 2 translated: Figure 3 translated: The snarky comment about the missing space is courtesy […]

Flash CS3 Professional: More Like an Adobe App

Flash is central to a world in which mobile phones, PDAs, and Web sites dance and sing. Many of you long-time Flash users have been anxious to see what sort of changes Adobe would make to your beloved program. Whether you’ll be pleased by the new Flash CS3 Professional (standalone $699/upgrade $199) is still an […]

Dreamweaver CS3: Take Me to Your Leader

It’s a fact of life that since the Web was born, Web sites have only grown in complexity. A state-of-the-art site today involves so much technical know-how that you practically have to be Q to master it all. Adobe acknowledged this in Dreamweaver CS3 by including many new features to help those of us who […]

Illustrator CS3: Color, Erase, Conceal, Reveal, and More

Illustrator CS3 incorporates some new ideas, some elements from other Adobe apps, and some workflow improvements that should help you in your day-to-day work. When bought as a separate app, Illustrator CS3 will set you back $599 ($199 upgrade). Here’s what you’ll get for your moola: Interface Changes Like the other CS3 apps, Illustrator’s palettes […]