Bomb blasts near the Gateway of India – I was standing at this position in September 2002. Along with two Indian colleagues, we ate at the Taj Mahal hotel right across from this landmark.
Night shot of the Gateway to India
Hotel Taj Mahal in the rear of the photo
Compendium of Lost Words I’ve had just about enough of your garrulous blateration, you clod!
Further to Adobe Enterprise XML Strategy Stuff, Adobe XML Architecture Specification. Note this is subject to change.
Hello visitors from adobeforums.com. How to print in greyscale; including placed EPS and PDF: InDesign 2.0: Printing Output Choices and Flattener Tricks (including force Greyscale export!)
Today marks my 5th year at Adobe Systems. On this day, 5 years ago, I was in San Jose getting the “good oil” on Adobe products with other Application Engineers. Some are still with Adobe, many are not.
At this time, Adobe had just release Photoshop 5.0 and were about to release Illustrator 8. Acrobat 3.0 was all the rage, and InDesign (or K2 as it was codenamed) had been shown to customers under strict NDA guidelines. Also, at about this time, a small Denver-based company called Quark offered to purchase Adobe. In September, Adobe went through a traumatic round of restructuring. Having recently joined the company from 3 years of Apple turmoil, things seemed, well, normal.
I was recently asked by Karl DeAbrew from Planetpdf.com, who I met in Melbourne very soon after joining, “Why are you still at Adobe after five years?” Here are my reasons:
It has been a very interesting 5 years. In Australia, film was king. PDF was seen as “an interesting future,
” but not good enough for print quality. QuarkXpress 3.32 was the industry standard for output, too. Since 1998, PDF has taken over as digital film. InDesign has stolen the lead from Xpress.
And wow, have I learnt lots. I must thank many people who have educated me in the ways of software.
The culture of Adobe is very unique. Its a mixture of “go get ’em” sales and marketing might, along with conservative financial control and geeky technology savvy.
Here’s to another 5 years. I wonder what the future holds?
You will need Adobe Reader 6.0 (or a full version of Acrobat 6.0) for this bit of Friday fun: Random Neil Finn Lyric
This is something I tricked up for OpenPublish 2003 using the new SOAP calls from Javascript in Acrobat 6.0. It uses the Random Neil Finn Lyric Server web service.
Saw an inspiring presentation from Tony Wheeler, Founder and CEO of Lonely Planet.
Some interesting Adobe Enterprise XML Strategy Stuff
If you have an interest in history, and have ancestors from England, this is a good bit of fun: Old Bailey Online: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834.
According to Whats in your name?, Hodge means:
English, patronymic derived from HODGE, the common nickname for ROGER ‘fame, spear’; the name was made popular after the Norman Conquest by Roger of Montgomery who distinguished himself at the Battle of Hastings.
Cari Jansen is passionate about InDesign. I think quite rightly so. I love the phrase “MANY have gone before you…”. Love your work, Cari!
Another pleasant Sunday drive in the MINI: Sydney MINI2 Meet 13 July 03 and video at MINI2 Video, 13th July 2003