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New MadeToPrint XT 1.5 for QuarkXPress offers high automation level
QuarkxPress users can speed up the prepress process with the new third party XTention, MadetoPrint
MadeToPrint, a new QuarkXPress XTenxion, was released in September 2005 by the German company Callas Software. This XTension automates and speeds up the preflight and the production of PDFs from QuarkXPress documents.
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300+ Free Halloween Fonts (Part 1 of 7)
In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts–living or dead. While we doubt we checked beneath every headstone and found every single font, we found plenty–over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–all free!
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300+ Free Halloween Fonts (Part 2 of 7)
In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts–living or dead. While we doubt we checked beneath every headstone and found every single font, we found plenty–over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–all free!
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300+ Free Halloween Fonts (Part 3 of 7)
In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts–living or dead. While we doubt we checked beneath every headstone and found every single font, we found plenty–over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–all free!
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300+ Free Halloween Fonts (Part 4 of 7)
In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts–living or dead. While we doubt we checked beneath every headstone and found every single font, we found plenty–over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–all free!
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300+ Free Halloween Fonts (Part 5 of 7)
In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts–living or dead. While we doubt we checked beneath every headstone and found every single font, we found plenty–over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–all free!
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In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts–living or dead. While we doubt we checked beneath every headstone and found every single font, we found plenty–over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–all free!
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In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts–living or dead. While we doubt we checked beneath every headstone and found every single font, we found plenty–over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–all free!
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If You Love Good Type, Subscribe To Typeradio.org’s Podcast
Now we’re talking: Typeradio.org’s podcast brings the worldwide type family together
The website is http://www.typeradio.org, or click here to subscribe to the podcast.
I’m a fan of good type and typography, and most every designer I’ve met who is really good and really serious about their craft has the same strange need to see type kerned and leaded in the best way, not just in a way that’s okay to read if you work at it. I’d say that typography, perhaps more than any discipline in the whole of graphic design, proves that things work in certain ways, that there is a craft involved in the process, and there are right ways and wrong ways to achieve perfect type for a given situation.
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Monotype Goes 100% OpenType
Major type foundry converts entire range of offerings to the new format
Press Release:
WOBURN, Mass.–(Monotype Imaging)–Sept. 20, 2005 – Monotype Imaging, home of the century-old Monotype® font foundry, has converted the full Monotype Library of more than 1,300 fonts into the OpenType® font format. Typefaces can be viewed, purchased and downloaded from Fonts.com.
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Faith in Design – a lecture by Michael Osborne
As a designer working in the wild, it’s important maintain a dialogue with your peers, whether that’s done through email, by phone, in person at cafés or other establishments, or even through classroom or convention interactions. One good way to keep up this kind of conversation is by attending the events.
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Photoshop Elements 4: Mac Version is coming?
The word from Adobe is now yes, there will be a Mac version of Photoshop Elements 4, its popular entry-level photo-editing software.
In a post on Photoshop Elements User forums, the word from Adobe is that yes, there will be a Mac version of Elements. There was no annoucement of when, leading to speculation that Adobe may be waiting to release the Mac version to be compatible with the new Intel chip as well as the current Unix-based Macs now on the market.
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Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips
By Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski
Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips is full of tips and tricks for Illustrator users no matter what your level of skill with the software.
The latest entry into the Killer Tips series of books, Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips, comes from Dave Cross, author of Illustrator CS Killer Tips, and Matt Kloskowski. Full of color illustrations and quick, meaty tips, this book will increase your Illustrator productivity, whether you are a new user of Illustrator or have been using the software for years. As with previous Killer Tips books, you can start reading anywhere. Scan the contents or index for the tips that relate to a specific problem, or, if you want to know all the tips, read it cover to cover.
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Elements 4.0 for Windows is here, leaving Mac users to ponder the fate of this program on the Macintosh platform.
Adobe announced the new version of their entry-level photo editing and organizing program Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Windows XP today. As in version 3, there are two options: Photoshop Elements comes by itself or bundled with Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0.
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“Smasher” Gets Medieval On Font Suitcase Problems
New utility from Insider Software promises to clean up and streamline font suitcases and caches, improving system performance.
Modern font management in the Mac OS X environment is something that leaves many longtime Mac users wishing for the relative simplicity of OS 9′s drag-and-drop management. Fonts in OS X live in multiple places depending on which environment, how many users, how many applications, et cetera.
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Margulis Drops Photoshop CS2 In Favor Of CS
Color-correction guru quits using Adobe’s latest version, citing poor Bridge performance.
Dan Margulis, inaugural inductee into the Photoshop Hall of Fame and one of the world’s foremost color-correction experts, recently announced that, “while [Adobe Photoshop] CS2 is a usable program,†beginning August 1 he reverted back to using its predecessor, Photoshop CS, due to poor performance with the new standalone application Adobe Bridge combined with a less-than-phenomenal set of new features for this most recent upgrade.
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Let us know your opinion in this poll
Jacci Howard Bear, About.com Desktop Publishing Guide questions whether QuarkXPress 7 will win back designers, or InDesign CS 2 will keep them with the Adobe family. She says:
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Rand McNally Releases 2006 Road Atlas
2006 edition of RMN Standard boasts more than 2.000 updates, enhanced coverage, more tourist and internet features.
On 15 Sept 2005, publisher Rand McNally announced the release of thier signature U.S. Road Atlas, 2006 edition.
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BeLight Releases Image Tricks for OS X Tiger Free
BeLight has released its Image Tricks image editing application for free. It is for Mac OS X Tiger only, and uses Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters. Easily edit and apply various effects and filters to your photos and images.
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Small Is Beautiful with Atomic Media
Digital Typefounder creates and markets bitmap fonts especially for web media
A sample of Matthew Bardram’s Hypersigna font, available at Atomic MediaNeed a font for a Flash, Web, or WAP application that will stay sharp at small sizes? Hunting for a bitmap font to give a certain presentation feel, perhaps retro? Atomic Media may have just what you’re looking for.
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Typeradio.org Offers Podcasts For Typography Addicts
Typeradio.org interviews to go in podcast format
Typeradio.org has been conducting interviews at typography events all over the world for a year or so now, and if you have an iPod you can now download them as podcasts. They tell me that the podcasts will work with any software that supports podcasts, but they designed to work best with iTunes.
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Firefox 1.5: The Next Major Release Undergoing Beta Testing
Shortly after writing about the new Opera 8, now free, I gladly find out that Firefox is testing their next major release
It’s a browser war. It’s imminent. Microsoft promises Internet Explorer 7 with the release of Windows Vista. Opera has just released version 8 of their browser and it’s free too. And Firefox is testing their next release 1.5 since a few months now. Web Site developers need to be on the ball and keep up with all these upgrades. Though there is no point in releasing a new browser, unless this makes it easier both on the web developer and the end user.
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Alien Skin Plug-Ins Now 100% Tiger-Compatible
All Photoshop plug-ins now Tiger-compatible, including Eye Candy 5
Alien Skin Software today announced that their Photoshop plug-ins have been updated to include compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger, released earlier this year) as well fixes to some minor bugs. The updates are free and available to registered Mac and PC users of the following:
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FontLab Offers FontLab Studio 5
FontLab updates to new version offering new features for Windows, Mac version in devolopment
FontLab has recently updated its high end professional tool FontLab to FontLab Studio 5. This new release boasts many new features, amongst them:
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Something We Should Learn from Quark’s Logo Controversy
Becuse of the exposure that Quark has in the design world, the mistake in the creation of their logo has great resonance. However don’t forget that this could happen to you.
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