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Design and editorial, often played against one another by their disparate layout and word processing software, finally have common ground, an equalizer, in InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3. In this excerpt from the new book Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, author Pariah S. Burke will help designers establish an effective, efficient collaboration workflow with editorial, one that can virtually eliminate the need for designers to effect copy edits and proof after proof after proof.

Whether you need to collaborate with the person over the cube wall from you or across the planet, InDesign CS3 has several powerful ways to coordinate joint efforts among creatives. In this excerpt from the new book Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, author Pariah S. Burke will help you build an efficient, effective collaboration workflow.

Step-by-step, how the creative team initiates, controls, and concludes a typical InDesign/InCopy workflow.

Optimizing a $200 million workflow with InCopy CS2 in 7 days.

Adobe’s InCopy promises benefits from increased collaboration, with Adobe’s famed integration with InDesign CS2, for editorial/creative layout workflows as a stand-alone application for workgroups of 2-12 members. Does it deliver? Associate Editor Sam Klein gives it the acid test, finds the benefits.

Go in deep for a long overdue examination of InCopy, the features new to version CS2, how InCopy cut one major publisher’s 60-day book production schedule down to 9 days, and how it will save you time, man-power, and money over Microsoft Word in a collaborative creative and editorial workflow.

Quark to discontinue desktop products, move entirely to server-based publishing systems? That’s the rumor.

Extensis unveils all new, blazingly fast server-based font management system—Universal Type Server. Last week I got a sneak peak. It was like going from dialup to broadband all over again.

Ray Schiavone talks about QuarkXPress 8, competing with InDesign, and Quark tech support returning to the U.S. He hints at Quark going public, but then ducks the big questions. We have what Schiavone said, and what he didn’t.

CS3 release of Adobe’s editorial collaboration tool provides give-and-take with designers while allowing editorial to get the job done.

Sunday, a Quark insider alleged layoffs, fiscal irresponsibility, and slumping sales. Wednesday Quark responded. I spoke with Ray Schiavone, president and CEO of Quark, about recent layoffs in the U.S. and India, about the state of Quark’s finances, and about whether QuarkXPress 7 is selling.

Highly placed Quark insider alleges sudden layoffs, irresponsible spending, and alarmingly low sales.

Free update to version 7.3 available now; extends support to five additional languages;
maintenance release demonstrates commitment to addressing user-reported issues

Winners from three different countries take home US$7,000 in prizes for designing alterate Adobe Creative Suite 3 application icons.

Download award-winning replacement icons for Adobe Creative Suite 3 and CS3 version applications.

When a little plus sign appears next to an entry on the Paragraph Style palette, designers want to clear that plus sign. Doing so, however, wipes away desired local text formatting as well as undesired. That is, unless you apply italics, bold, and other formatting the smart way.

Still on the fence about InDesign and InCopy CS3? Here are 10 new things that we don’t think we’d be able to do without.

New editions of Creative Suite target print, web, video, and gotta-have-it-all designers.

Quark to giveaway XPert Tools Pro, a suite of 16 xtensions for QuarkXPress 7.

Designers to present their visions of Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications in competition for an extensive prize chest. All entries to be compiled into a free library of alternate CS3 icons.