David 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?
Sandee 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 commands, find out what SSH is, understand the syntax of the Apache .htaccess file and reconfigure some PHP. Still gotta fix some stray PHPs left around.
I’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.
InDesign 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” systems. Will need to write more about this soon…
The 3DAP (PDF Guidelines for Magazine Advertising Delivery) (Digital Advertising Delivery for Australian Publications) has been updated.
Now this is way Cool.Online Lego. Now I’ll never get anything done at work. At least it won’t be as noisy as the real stuff.
And speaking of coolness in toys, The Propellerheads have announced an updated to Reason. For music makers, this has to be one of the greatest, simplest yet most powerful computer music creation around.
Sorry about the lack of posts. Been on the road for 2 weeks with one left to go!
Official announcement of InDesign @ ACP here. I spent 6 weeks of my life @ ACP in the middle of last year. Learnt heaps.
Adobe has posted a PDF detailing InDesign 2.0 from a prepress/output perspective: InDesign CS Printing Guide
Something from the archives of my email. Scripting Spot Colour Changes in Illustrator 10
Want a word count in InDesign 2.0? Here is a Visual Basic applet that goes one step further: InDesign 2.0: Word Count using Visual Basic
A whole raft of SVG developer level information here SVG Information at Protocol 7