Comments on: A Trip to Adobe Seattle, Where InDesign Is Made (Part 2)

By: krollian

krollian — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:50:40 +0000

Yes, David.
I know this situation. Is a real, real pity that your books can not be seen in the spanish bookstores.
I think that there is a real market for your books in spanish.
An important base of users still work with the 3 magnificients:

FreeHand, Photoshop and XPress.

And we all know that ASAP all we shall move to Adobe products. Even some people will follow with XPress because of its wide and uncountable user base…

Keep on with your great blog. If I had more time to visit it…

You know, eMail, Youtube, Facebook and those things called work, sleep, family an so on…

See ya, David!

By: james Wamser

james Wamser — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:26:37 +0000

I had a chance to tour Adobe’s Seattle offices a couple times, so your post brings back great memories.

Thanks for sharing!

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:36:50 +0000

The “Bug Stats” board is pretty sparse looking?

Cool sets of photos.

Thanks for sharing.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:42:27 +0000

@krollian: Ah yes, I remember Pagina Uno and the Q-Tips book well. I would love there to be a Spanish version of my books, but it depends on the Spanish publishers, not me. Yo olvidé mi español del escuela venti-cinco años pasado. (Does that even mean anything?)

@Anne-Marie: Fortunately, those machines aren’t the main workstations for fixing bugs. In fact, I should have been more clear: the testing lab is largely automated. Adobe runs thousands of different tests on different machines completely via automated programs. It’s only when something goes wrong that someone actually need to sit and use the UI. And those QA folks have their own offices/cubicles elsewhere.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:33:03 +0000

Ha! Fun times … great pictures! I’ve seen only about half of those places on the Adobe campus.

What is worrisome to me is the lack of *people* sitting at the bug-fixing computers though.

Thanks so much for sharing!

By: krollian

krollian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:39:01 +0000

The PageSet paper just blow me away. Breathtaking, awesome, curious.

Thanx a lot, David from a spanish mac guy that knows you, since you wrote that book with Eric Taub ¿Remenber?

In Spain was published by Pagina Uno.

What about the publication of a book From Quark to InDesign (or a approximation) in spanish?

Thank you very much again