This Month in InDesign Articles, April 2017

Here’s a fun “throwback Thursday” story about me: In the early 1990s I was a hard-core QuarkXPress user (after all, InDesign didn’t exist back then!) and I was invited to Japan to teach. There I was, on stage in Tokyo, Japan with the wonderful Diane Burns, and a translator. You have to understand that Diane was the first person to really “bring” the concept of desktop publishing to Japan, and she was widely known as “DTP no haha” (which, to my perpetual amusement, means “the mother of DTP”… not “really serious DTP”)

So there I am on stage with Diane, and they introduce her as DTP no haha… and then, in a very kind effort to be equal and make me feel welcome, they introduce me as DTP no chichi (“father of DTP,” which certainly wasn’t true about me). So you just have to imagine the moment that Diane and I look at each other on stage, pause while thinking about what they’re staying about us, and then bust out laughing. We have been dear friends ever since, and I’m so glad we have a rare opportunity to be on stage together again next month at The InDesign Conference.

OK, now for some fun articles and links and videos that… jeez, you just have to check out!

Enjoy!

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