Archive for April, 2002
InDesign 2.0: Spot Colors, Transparency
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002Visit the new InDesign Prepress Section: Adobe InDesign: Prepress Techniques
InDesign 2.0, Spot Colors, Transparency.
In June 2001 I had the opportunity to spend some time at Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) looking at the implementation of InDesign as a replacement to QuarkXpress and Heidelberg DaVinci systems.
Replacing QuarkXpress is something that is pretty straight forward: understanding the [...]
Tricks of the HyperTalk Masters
Thursday, April 18th, 2002Front Cover, Tricks of the HyperTalk Masters. The Waite Group 1989.
In 1987 Apple released an application called Hypercard. Once I saw Hypercard, my life changed. The inbuilt programming language, HyperTalk, combined with the UI/database made it extremely easy to write small applications. Many of the features of HyperCard predate the web, but [...]
A paradigm shift in software
Sunday, April 14th, 2002A paradigm shift is due in the realm of what I call distributed computing. In my definition, this is where the processing for a particular task is "done somewhere else" other than the desktop. In the web model, you can think of this as dynamic web sites. You tell the server what [...]
Quark
Sunday, April 7th, 2002In San Jose, California. Sorting out the DNS. Learning about delegation, NIC handles and the good sense of updating your contact records.
Its interesting to read both the Adobe User to User Forums and Quark User Forums and what each are saying about Xpress vs. InDesign. Maybe we are in the midst of a [...]
Quark to InDesign
Saturday, April 6th, 2002David Blattner (Quark Guru) Compares QuarkXpress 5.0 to InDesign 2.0 I think there are some arguable points in his article, and he didn't cover my favourite "spot colour" topic! However, it is a fairly even article.
Off to the US. I wonder if my DNS troubles will be solved by then?
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InDesign 2.0
Friday, April 5th, 2002Sandee Cohen is publishing articles on CreativePro.com looking at InDesign 2.0 - and more specifically, the differences and how-tos for Quark/PageMaker users.
Sorry about the gap in service there. My current hosting provider had a brain explosion. I've now transfered this site to another service. Had to relearn SQL, throw in a few Unix [...]
Adobe PDF and Spot Colors
Thursday, April 4th, 2002I've just read on a forum that "Adobe says that PDF cannot handle spot colours." (To not embarass the poster, I won't detail where) This is so wrong.
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A very minor achievement…
Tuesday, April 2nd, 20022nd April 2002. At 3.15pm
As at today, my average emails received per day (weekends included) is 103
My average emails sent per day is 15
InDesign 2.0: Automating Adding Words to the Dictionary
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2002InDesign 2.0: Automating Adding Words to the Dictionary
Updated for InDesign CS: Import Words into InDesign CS Dictionary
A question from a customer: how do you import dictionaries into InDesign 2.0?
There are two real axioms about working for Adobe. (a) there is always someone smarter than you who can help (b) InDesign is scriptable.
By [...]
InDesign 2.0 Add Dictionary
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2002InDesign 2.0: Automating Adding Words to the Dictionary
One of the furphies (misstatements, lies, errors) is that a composite PDF cannot hold spot colours. Wrong. InDesign 2.0 and Illustrator 10 change the rules here too somewhat: both can create composite, trapped PDF with transparency. Before these applications, doing this relied on high end, "prepress" [...]
