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Accord­ing to research recently com­pleted by the Adobe Sydney office, 88% of job advert­ise­ments for graphic design­ers, Mac oper­at­ors requir­ing page lay­out skills require InDes­ign qualifications/experience.� QuarkX­press is 33%. A sig­ni­fic­ant change from 5 years ago.� It por­tends the future for all countries!� Learn and use InDes­ign now.(for an external ref­er­ence, check Print21 Online

John Dickin­son, the mas­ter of After Effects in Aus­tralia has a blog: Motion­works Blog

Kris Cop­pi­eters from Roro­hiko in Wel­ling­ton, NZ sent me an email on a new set of InDes­ign CS2 plu­gins. My favour­ite is the Place Auto-Synchronize plu­gin.� As an old MacOS guy, and fondly remem­ber­ing Sys­tem 7’s Publish-and-Subscribe model; the Auto-Synchronize plu­gin brings an ele­ment of that live-ness to your InDes­ign placed files.

TextCount on Steri­ods for InDes­ign CS2.� If you are char­ging by word, this is an excel­lent tool to determ­ine if the job is profitable!

His­tory 2.0 plu­gin and palette for InDes­ign CS2. Now at ver­sion 2.0.

For some of you, the battle between Quark and InDes­ign Rages on. For me, the war is over.

pdated script (Javas­cript) for Import­ing Text files into InDes­ign CS:
Import Words into InDes­ign CS Dictionary

For many, the His­tory tool in Pho­toshop is the pin­nacle of its eleg­ance. His­tory Tool for InDes­ign CS and InCopy CS

It is dif­fi­cult to believe that the Cre­at­ive Suite and InDes­ign CS was announced a year ago. I’ve spent the long week­end updat­ing: Adobe InDes­ign: Prepress Tech­niques. This is a new sec­tion in the web site where InDes­ign Prepress tips and tech­niques will be pos­ted. Old, his­toric InDes­ign 2.0 doc­u­ment are still active.

A new art­icle: InDes­ign Prepress: What Are these White Boxes?

Aus­tralian Print21 magazine inter­view regard­ing Quark charm offens­ive to get closer to cus­tom­ers. A week or so later, Quark vs InDes­ign — the feedback

A very use­ful script for clean­ing up badly format­ted text: Multi Find and Change By Steve Nich­ols. Writ­ten on the train, evidently!