Archives: July 2005

SoftCare Plug-ins Overset Manager and Notes Manager Now Available for InDesign and InCopy CS2

BY Samuel John Klein
Filed: News | Plugins/Xtensions | InDesign

SoftCare updates thier popular Plug-ins to work with Creative Suite 2; will still work with Creative Suite 1

Tutorial: How-To Fill Type with Artwork in InDesign

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: How-To | InDesign

How would you fill type with artwork or imagery? Would you do it in Photoshop or Illustrator…

onOne Software Purchases Plug-in Products from Extensis

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | Plugins/Xtensions

New software developer onOne Software purchases popular line of productivity enhancement products for Photoshop and QuarkXPress.
Press Release

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X-Rite and Quark Announce New Color Management Bundles for QuarkAlliance Users

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | Plugins/Xtensions | QuarkXPress

Press Release

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 28, 2005—Quark and X-Rite (NASDAQ:XRIT) announce two new color management bundles exclusively for QuarkAlliance members…

Macromedia CEO Tells IDB Adobe Merger a Good Thing

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | Creative Suite

In a recent interview with Investors Business Daily, Stephen Elop, CEO of Macromedia, expressed confident optimism about the Adobe-Macromedia merger, the DOJ investigation, and customer reactions…

Markzware Announces the Release of FlightCheck Studio for Adobe InDesign

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | Plugins/Xtensions

FlightCheck Studio Resolves Design Problems With Quick And Easy Detection And Correction!
Press Release

Rijswijk, The Netherlands—(QUARKvsINDESIGN…

Typefi Announces Version 2.5 of the Typefi Publishing System — The Automated Scriptless Publishing Solution

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | Plugins/Xtensions

World leader in dynamic enterprise publishing releases the latest version of their XML-based automated scriptless publishing system.
Press Release
San Jose, CA—(QUARKvsINDESIGN…

QuarkXPress 7.0 From the Inside

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | QuarkXPress | Creative Suite

Will XPress 7.0 be the upgrade that puts Quark back on top? CreativePro.com’s Gene Gable spent two days at Quark’s Denver headquarters to find out and emerged with a cautiously optimistic exclusive report that delves deeper into what Quark has let out of the bag so far—and hints at a few things they haven’t.

Tutorial: How-To Fill Type with Artwork in Quark

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: How-To | QuarkXPress

How would you fill type with artwork or imagery? Would you do it in Photoshop or Illustrator…

Who’s Watching the Adobe-Macromedia Merger?

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Features | Creative Suite

As Adobe and Macromedia await word of DOJ rulings on the impending merger and what will become of the companies’ competitive products, both move forward with stockholder votes. But if applications—DreamWeaver, GoLive, FreeHand, FireWorks, or Homesite—have to sell, who is likely to buy?

History 2.0 Plug–In for Adobe InDesign and InCopy Released

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | Plugins/Xtensions

History 2.0 plug–in for Adobe InDesign and InCopy is released
Press Release

Prague, EU—(QUARKvsINDESIGN…

InDesign CS2 Garners Strong Review Press

BY Samuel John Klein
Filed: Reviews | InDesign

Strong positive reviews from MacAddict magazine and the Mac news site Macsimumnews.com add to InDesign’s positive reputation

Quark Deals for Designers of Tomorrow, While Price-Gouging Designers of Today

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: Features | QuarkXPress

A new deal with Scholastic hopes to increase Quark exposure among future generations of Australian creatives, but the current state of Quark technology, coupled with the 200% markup for QuarkXPress down under, has the designers of today and tomorrow running straight into InDesign’s arms. We have to ask: Is Quark really wooing Australian creatives, or should we use another verb that rhymes with wooing?

MIT’s Newspaper Jettisons Quark for InDesign, InCopy

BY Samuel John Klein
Filed: News | QuarkXPress | InDesign | InCopy

MIT’s The Tech switches to Adobe/WoodWing software to expedite publishing to web, giving up QuarkXPress 4 and Quark Publishing System 2

CreativePro Giving Away CreativeSuite 2

BY Pariah S. Burke
Filed: News | Creative Suite

Over at CreativePro.com, the current weekly contest prize is a copy of Adobe CreativeSuite 2 Premium Edition…