Facebook is giving away a 20-page PDF called “Building Your Business with Facebook Pages.” If you’re new to using Facebook to connect with existing and potential customers, the free guide has some useful pointers. If your social-media marketing is more advanced, you may still want to give the guide to clients who are just starting […]
Continue reading
Are you an early adopter? Extensis has you covered. If you’ve installed Suitcase Fusion 3, use its Check for Updates feature to download an update that works with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and Adobe Creative Suite 5.5. Extensis has also released a QuarkXPress 9 XTension for Universal Type Client. Extensis’ font-management applications now have […]
Continue reading
• Tables Tables Tables!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Automatic Document Conversion
• Quizzler Answers!!!!
I assume civics is still a part of the U.S. grade school and high school curriculum, though I hear it’s not much emphasized. When I was in school in the 1960s and 1970s, we learned quite a bit about the founding of our country, its early leaders, and the responsibilities of being a citizen. Today’s […]
Continue reading
Ideally, everyone would begin every InDesign document by carefully constructing all of its character, paragraph, and object styles. In reality, that’s rarely the case. Perhaps you pick up documents where a style-averse designer left off, or maybe your own files could use better organization. In either situation, DTP Tools’ Power Styles plug-in can help. This […]
Continue reading
The $330 Olympus SP-810UZ is a point-and-shoot digital camera that, while small, can deliver photographs that are ultra-wide or ultra-close: the fast, wide 1:2.9-5.7 24-864mm lens can zoom up to 36x. And that’s optical–no software interpolation. It shoots HD video as well as standard stills, and even has a 3D setting that blends two photos […]
Continue reading
Canon introduced two new photo printers recently: the Pixma MG5320 Wireless Photo All-In-One and the Pixma iP4920 Photo Inkjet Printer. The $99 Pixma iP4920 is an inkjet device that can output 9600 x 2400 dpi prints. It’s not a quick printer–for a 4″ x 6″ borderless photo, you’ll have to wait 20 seconds. The $150 […]
Continue reading
Compare styles, create styles automatically, create style reports, remove local overrides… it’s a must-have!
Continue reading
Typography evolves slowly, its progress held in check by the demands of readability. However, typeface aesthetics are more fluid. The 10th edition of Manual of Style, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1937, offers a window onto developments in both typography and type design. Now in its 16th edition and known as The […]
Continue reading