Em Software’s DocsFlow heralds a breakthrough in collaborative publishing!
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I’ve never owned a British car, though I’ve been attracted to a few and came close to buying an MG sports car when I was a teenager. But, fairly or not, I’ve let the questionable reputation of British vehicles influence me and have stayed away. I have no idea whether British cars are any better […]
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Whether you work at a press shop or are a production artist or print-oriented designer, you’ll find something of value in the freshly released Adobe Creative Suite 5/5.5 Printing Guide. For example, InDesign users can learn how to prep files for output, employ Live Preflight to spot potential troublemakers, work with book files, and a […]
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Pentax announced a new digital camera, the Pentax Q. The Q, which will be available in the United States in Fall 2011 for about $800, is the smallest, lightest camera you can get that still has interchangeable lenses. It measures 3.9″ wide by 2.3″ high by 1.2″ deep and weighs 7.1 oz when the battery […]
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For many years, graphic designers and photographers have been on a quest for the elusive WYSIWYG color workflow; that is, color that looks the same on your monitor as it does on the final printed piece. To achieve this holy grail, you must color-calibrate as many pieces of the puzzle as possible. X-Rite has just […]
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Most people who use software regularly wish they could add or change the interface or features. Even though they may seem like faceless companies, most software makers want to hear from their customers. Adobe’s no exception. You may have used Adobe’s official Feature Request/Bug Report Form, but now there’s a new way to make your […]
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Typography I’ve mentioned Designers and Books before, in which 66 designers draw up a list of books that inspire them. Typographer and designer Erik Spiekermann’s list includes classics by Jan Tschichold, Robin Kinross, and Ruari McLean, but it also features two books by a Swiss typographer previously unknown to me, Hans Rudolf Bossard, whose books […]
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One of the great things about the Web design and development community is the selfless desire to help other community members improve their skills. The CSS Lint website is a perfect example. You paste a bunch of CSS into a form, tweak the rules by which that code is judged (if you want), and bam! […]
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Happy summer/winter reading for every InDesign user
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