Podcast 051

• Hyperlinks: Creating, Deleting, Swearing at, Modifying, etc.
• All about Text Variables, a new feature in CS3

Fixing Missing Fonts that Don’t Exist

So, here’s an existential conundrum for you: Why would InDesign tell you that you’re missing a font that doesn’t exist?

Exhibit 1: This screen shot of an InDesign alert, telling me I’m missing “Times 85 Heavy” …

Perhaps the layout was created in an alternate universe where there’s a numbered version of Times? That was my first thought this morning, when I opened the problem child document sent to me by a couple new InDesign users.

A&I's HP Indigo Technology Helps Establish Cost-effective Book Solution for Pro Photographers

HP today announced that A&I Photographic and Digital Lab, partnering with Great Circle Books, has incorporated the industry-leading imaging capabilities of its new HP Indigo press 5000 to establish a unique publishing service for professional photographers. Using the silver halide-quality capabilities of HP Indigo technology and liquid HP ElectroInk, the new service provides an affordable […]

iStockphoto Video Contest Winners Offer Fresh Perspectives on the Role of Technology in Our Lives

iStockphoto®, the world’s busiest image market, today announced the winners of “Future Now!,” the first iStockvideo contest, which awarded over $25,000 in equipment and prizes. The winners are photographers, designers and videographers from Portugal, the U.K., the U.S., and Canada. The finalists were short listed by the 1.8 million-member iStock community, and the four winners […]

SiteWelder Announces Premium On-Location Website Development Service

SiteWelder™ (https://www.sitewelder.com), a leading online host of easy-to-use editable websites for visual professionals, today announced their Platinum Valet Service, a premium on-site website development service for customers located in the continental United States. As part of the Platinum Valet Service, SiteWelder will fly a “SiteWelder Guru” anywhere in the continental United States and spend up […]

Vertus Launches New Public Beta of Fluid Mask 3; Industry's Leading Image Masking Software

Vertus, the graphics and imaging software division of Heligon, a technology business specializing in image data interpretation, today announced the launch of the much-anticipated Fluid Mask 3 Public BETA.  This latest version of Vertus’ award-winning image editing software is the professionals’ choice for rapid, powerful and intuitive masking and high-quality image blending.    Fluid Mask […]

Think Outside the Mailbox

This story courtesy of PaperSpecs.com. There was very little protest on May 14, 2007, when the United States Postal Service increased postage rates to 41 cents for first class standard letters — which may mean that no one is sending mail anymore. Not true, says the USPS. In fact, mail is thriving, according to a […]

Flashforward2007 Film Festival Opens Nominations

Flashforward opens the nomination process for the 17th Flashforward Film Festival. The festival, now in its eighth year, celebrates the most innovative and compelling examples of Adobe Flash work available on the web. Anyone, including the creators of projects, can nominate work for one of fifteen categories in the film festival. The categories–which range from […]

Extensis Ships First-Available Font Management Plug-ins for Adobe CS3

Extensis, a brand of Celartem, Inc., today released free plug-ins for Suitcase Fusion and a free update for Suitcase for Windows to provide the world’s most advanced font activation and deactivation for Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 documents. Extensis is the first font management provider to release plug-ins that have been designed for and tested on […]