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Off to the US again. Another 14 hours in Qantas economy.

Back from the US, so much to talk about.

As you have read or seen, Adobe announced new ver­sions of Adobe Illus­trator (now ver­sion 10) and InDes­ign (now ver­sion 2). To me, InDes­ign is the most excit­ing. I have been doing tests to vari­ous RIPs of out­put, exper­i­ment­ing with Spot col­ours and trans­par­ency. It rocks, and will change pub­lish­ing more than any other applic­a­tion since QuarkX­press 3.32

Some­thing non-Adobe related. I have recently taken pos­ses­sion of a Titanium Power­Book G4 with MacOS X 10.1 installed. At Sey­bold I saw AppleScript Stu­dio: a good mind meld between NeXT s excel­lent developer tools (now incarn­ate in Cocoa) and AppleScript. The more cus­tom­ers Apple get using these tools, the bet­ter future for the com­pany. This is a developer s dream oper­at­ing sys­tem. I’ve installed PHP and also pur­chased ScriptDe­bug­ger to do more in the script­ing realm.