Macware Releases MacCapture

macware® (a division of Summitsoft Corporation) announced today the release of MacCapture, an easy way to create powerful visual presentations for any educational, business, media or personal use. MacCapture synchronizes audio, video, text and images to build engaging personal messages that command attention and hit the “hot buttons” of your audience. "The creative scope of […]

Make a Pinhole Panoramic Camera

Tutorial compliments of “Make:” magazine. Pinhole cameras have been a long-time favorite of adventuresome photographers. But forget the Quaker Oats carton and go wide with this roll-film, panorama design. It uses standard 120mm roll film, which means you don’t have to open the camera and reload after each exposure, and you don’t need a darkroom […]

Podcast 055

• InDesign CS3 Live Docs
• The Joys of Highlighting Composition Violations
• The Revenge of the Quizzler!

Stamps.com Announces Winners of the 'PhotoStamps of the Year' Contest

Stamps.com® (NASDAQ:STMP), the leading provider of Internet-based postage services, today announced the winners of the “PhotoStamps of the Year” contest. The winning PhotoStamps will be exhibited at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, DC beginning August 8, 2007. The grand prize winner, Edmund J. DePinter, from Wading River, NY, submitted an image of his […]

Enfocus PitStop Professional 7.2 Released; Supports Windows Vista

Enfocus, an Artwork Systems brand and leader in production automation technology, today announces the release of Enfocus PitStop Professional 7.2, a free update for PitStop 7.0 and 7.1 users, available for download at www.enfocus.com. The latest version of Enfocus PitStop Professional, the industry standard for PDF preflight, auto-correction and editing, features Windows Vista (32-bit) support, […]

SoftCare Overset Manager and SoftCare Notes Manager now available for Adobe InDesign CS3 and Adobe InCopy CS3

InDesign and InCopy solution provider SoftCare today announced that the plug-ins SoftCare Overset Manager and SoftCare Notes Manager are now available for Adobe Creative Suite 3. SoftCare Overset Manager gives users total control over text length and overset, and is the ideal tool for everybody dealing with text-intensive files on a regular basis. SoftCare Notes […]

Over 200 Stock City Maps for Adobe Illustrator Users Custom Map Areas Also Available from Map Resources

Map Resources released additional city maps for graphic design professionals who need royalty free maps they can use for publications and web site projects. The company now offers over 200 detailed maps of downtown and metropolitan areas across the US. Maps are fully editable vector format, and royalty free for print, web and broadcast. See […]

Better Than Ginzu Knives: InDesign's Pathfinder Commands

This article is excerpted from the April/May 2007 issue of “InDesign Magazine,” #17. Every avid chef has little gizmos and gadgets, designed for specific tasks, that find their way to the back of a drawer and are then forgotten. Like those special tools, the Pathfinder commands in InDesign are often forgotten or considered too sophisticated […]

What Are Your Favorite Word and Character Space Settings for H&Js?

Zalman wrote: What is your recommended hyphenation settings in setting paragraph styles? I am working on a 300+ page book and it hyphenates in weird places( two letters to the end; several lines in a row). I know we can clamp that down, but not sure what?s the best practice regarding good settings.

Great question, but unfortunately, it’s sort of like asking “what’s the best practice on which font to choose?” Different projects and different aesthetics require different settings. However, here’s what I usually start out with…