Scanning Line Art for Use in InDesign

Sandy wrote: I am attending a conference and one of the speakers mentioned he once attended a conference at which you spoke and you covered 3 or 4 steps to scanning and digitizing line art that would be suitable for reproduction for in a newspaper. I would very much appreciate a review about how to effectively and efficiently do that.

Scanning line art (artwork made of only one color, usually black on white paper) is nowhere near as straightforward as many people think, especially for high-resolution printing. Fortunately, it’s not difficult if you follow these steps. (Much of this is also covered in both Real World Photoshop and Real World Scanning & Halftones.)….

Adobe Advances Web 2.0 in Education

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it is offering Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 software at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide. The Flex Builder 2 integrated development environment (IDE) is part of a powerful toolset for designing and developing rich Internet applications (RIAs), an essential part of Web 2.0. Web […]

X-Rite Completes Acquisition of Pantone

X-Rite, Incorporated (Nasdaq: XRIT) a leading provider of color solutions for measuring, formulating, matching, and simulating color, announced today it has completed the purchase of Pantone, Inc. for a purchase price of 180 million dollars. The transaction was funded exclusively with cash, financed through new borrowings. Pantone, Inc., headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, is the […]

PhotoWorks Announces Month-Long 'Forgotten Film' Promotion

Everyone has them. Hidden in sock drawers, sitting in the glove compartment, buried in the pocket of an old suitcase…forgotten rolls of film! PhotoWorks®, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: PHTW), an Internet-based personal publishing company and photography community, today announced the kick-off of its "Forgotten Film" promotion, inviting shutterbugs to remember their forgotten rolls by offering free […]

ShutterBug v2.3 Offers New Image Processing Engine & Enhanced HTML Output to Optimize Websites, Plus new Filter Controls, Lightb

XtraLean Software is pleased to announce the latest release of its WYSIWYG website creation tool, ShutterBug V2.3, with more than eighteen new additions and improvements. This version dramatically improves the quality of images with the new image processing engine and the addition of filter controls to adjust the sharpness, brightness, contrast and saturation of images. […]

Decoding the Recycling Symbol

This story courtesy of PaperSpecs.com. It seems like the recycling symbol is everywhere and on everything. Whether in the office, kitchen, garage, or yard, the icon is immediately identifiable: three chasing arrows in the shape of a triangle (Figure 1). Figure 1. Remarkably, this international icon was created by a student for a contest sponsored […]

See Previews of InDesign Files Outside of Bridge

I’m a huge fan of Adobe Bridge, the free “digital asset management” program that comes with every Creative Suite program. One of its best features is that it shows previews of InDesign layouts (the first page only) and InDesign templates (every page). That’s very handy when the filenames don’t tell you much about the file’s contents.

But what about outside of Bridge? I wish I could see previews of every file — including InDesign layouts — instead of just images and PDFs in the Finder/Windows Explorer or Open/Save dialog boxes. In InDesign’s Save/Save As dialog box, the “Always Save Preview” check box is a tease:

Sony's Latest Camera Holds a Whopping 40,000 Photos

It will be easy to keep this season’s holiday photos in one convenient location with Sony’s new mega-capacity Cyber-shot® DSC-T2 digital camera. The 8-megapixel model features 4GB of internal memory and can store up to 40,000 VGA-quality photos or 1,000 8-megapixel pictures, eliminating the need to manage multiple media cards. And, you won’t spend hours […]

NAPL, NAQP & Coalition Encouraged by Latest Adobe Action to Remove Link

NAPL (www.napl.org), trade association for excellence in graphic communications management, the National Association of Quick Printers (NAQP), a member of the NAPL Network, and The Graphic Communications Coalition for Open Competition have been notified by Adobe Systems that the latest releases of the company’s Acrobat and Reader programs (Version 8.1.1) no longer contain a “Send […]