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Sandee exposes a problem with the new Apple laptops

Sometimes the funniest InDesign-related things catch our eyes…

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Some folks have reported repeated, horrible, frustrating crashes when using InDesign CS3 on Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) when using any of the “navigation services” features: Open, Save, Place, Relink, and other dialog boxes. What’s particularly crazy-making about this is that it doesn’t happen to everyone. Some folks say it happens more on Intel Macs and [...]

I’m terribly upset about a tragic situation that I’ve recently learned about. I encourage you to stop what you’re doing and go watch this video on Adobe TV or on YouTube and learn what you can do to stop the Acrobat PDF transparencide. This public service announcement was created by our friends (and Adobe evangelists) Tim Cole and Rufus Deuchler.

Just a quick note to say Welcome to our two new contributors at InDesignSecrets.com: Bob Levine and Ted LoCascio!

Bob is probably already well-known to anyone who also frequents the Adobe forums or the InDesign mail list. He’s an…