Posts by Bob Levine

Adobe announced this morning that CS4 is now available. The suites and individual applications can be ordered directly from Adobe or through any authorized reseller

Just as a reminder, if you’re thinking about the upgrade please keep in mind that if you have a suite license already you cannot upgrade individual components.

Considering that CS4 hasn’t even been released yet, the information about it is coming pretty quickly. In addition to the earlier news that the help system has gone live, Adobe’s Thomas Phinney has posted the CS4 bundled font list on his blog.

The list is a pretty similar to earlier versions but the registration benefit for [...]

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Adobe had the most liberal upgrade policy in the industry. Any earlier version, no matter how old, qualified for upgrade pricing.

Those days are long gone and the upgrade eligibility for CS4 is stricter than ever. Only Creative Suite 3 licenses are eligible for the best pricing of $599.00 [...]

Every now and again I’ll attempt to scale something in InDesign and get the following error:

Most of the time I’ve found it happening after pasting an object in from Illustrator but it’s just as likely to occur when scaling any native object drawn in InDesign.

That error can really lead you on a wild goose [...]

First let me save you some trouble…If you’re running Windows XP with Office 2003 and earlier, stop reading. You’re not affected. If you’re a Mac user and you’ve read this far, why? Curiousity got the best of you?

For those of you on Vista or using Office 2007 you are among those affected by Microsoft’s [...]

A recent post on the user to user forum was complaining about the difficulty of trying to apply swatches to text in InDesign. The poster went on to say that it seemed like a waste of time to deselect the text frame and then select text. Well, that’s correct. What the poster, and apparently a [...]

One of InDesign’s great little capabilities is that it’s so simple to just place a PDF file. But like everything else in life, it’s just not perfect.

Once in a while an error alert will pop up saying “Failed to Open the PDF” That’s hardly a very specific or helpful error especially since you’re not trying [...]

Most designers are unlikely to be aware of dimension limits in the applications they’re using until they try to create a document that exceeds those limits and are greeted with a message like this:

That message is pretty straightforward. InDesign can only create a 216″ document. Let’s just scale it to 50%.

We’re good to go, right? [...]

Are you feeling limited or even trapped by the measly 1,000 or so spot colors available in the Pantone spot color libraries? Good news: Pantone has recently introduced a brand new spot color system, the Pantone Goe system. The Goe system adds 2,058 new colors for the color starved designer. The original Pantone Matching System [...]

Sometimes finding something as simple as a serial number can require a trick