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InDesign CS4 News Coming September 23

September 2 2008 • 8:41 PM

Adobe today announced that they will unveil CS4 on September 23, 2008. From the little that Adobe is saying, it sounds as though they won’t actually be releasing CS4 on that date. Rather, they’re going public that day about what they call the “largest product launch in Adobe’s history.”

As with so many announcements about announcements, [...]

Dear Adobe

September 2 2008 • 8:55 AM

Need a place to vent about InDesign, or Adobe in general? Here’s a new resource … and Adobe is listening.

InDesign1200 Brings Shortcuts to Life

September 2 2008 • 5:38 AM

Casey D’Andrea has launched a new Web site to show off his keyboard shortcuts PDF

The Missing Fn Key and Numbers

August 13 2008 • 10:18 AM

Sandee exposes a problem with the new Apple laptops

InDesign Photo of the Week

August 10 2008 • 7:10 AM

Sometimes the funniest InDesign-related things catch our eyes…

First InDesignSecrets Tips & Tricks eSeminar Announced

August 7 2008 • 1:09 PM

As you probably know by now, we love sharing information about InDesign. But sometimes we get tired of typing (for blog posts) or talking (for our audio podcasts), and we just want to demonstrate, live, how to do a certain technique. So we’re starting a series of eSeminars, or Webinars, or whatever you want to [...]

InDesign Welcome Screen Finally Changes

July 28 2008 • 1:26 PM

A year or so ago, I mentioned that CS3’s Welcome Screen had a dynamic area that could change from time to time. Well, it recently changed for (as far as I know) the first time. Suddenly, Adobe felt compelled to put a little notice about CS3.3 and Acrobat 9 in the welcome screen. I think [...]

Can I Just Kvell About My ScanSnap For a Minute?

July 2 2008 • 6:35 AM

I know we don’t usually talk about actual physical products on this blog — we tend toward the immaterial, software world. But I’m sitting here in my office, after having scanned a few hundred pages of stuff I don’t want cluttering on my desk anymore… and I just have to give a shout out about [...]

A New Look and Feel for InDesignSecrets

June 28 2008 • 6:28 PM

Welcome to our new site design! Come look around…

Acrobat 9 and CS 3.3 Announced

June 2 2008 • 12:42 PM

For me, the Adobe/Macromedia merger has finally borne fruit today, with the announcement of Acrobat 9. While CS3 had a few nods to the fact that the two company’s programs would play together (barely), this new version of Acrobat makes it clear by integrating the Flash (SWF) format into the PDF viewer.

The demos I’ve seen [...]