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Articles by Samuel John Klein
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Acrobat 9 Pro: The Designorati Review
Acrobat 9 Pro is alive and in the wild. Is the update worth your interest? With new features for presentation, production, and aggregation, it may well be.
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Got A Browser Open? You Can Make A Font!
FontStruct, FontShop's new browser based application and community, make font making as simple as building blocks
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Making PDF Porfolios With Adobe Acrobat Pro 9
Assembling a slick PDF Portfolio in Acrobat Pro 9 is simple and quick. Here's how Designorati's Sam Klein did it.
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Acrobat Pro 9 Turns Powerful New Tricks
With new tools for presenting portfolios, Flash integration, and online collaboration, Acrobat Pro 9 offers amazing new ways to promote, package, polish, and share PDF content
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Adobe Tempts With Three Free Public Betas
Adobe offers a look at the next generation with three new public betas: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth
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Are You Down With Adobe Font Installation? Thomas Phinney Wants To Know.
Adobe's font expert has a short survey for you.
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Type is Tres Chic
Type goes haute couture in current issue of lifestyle magazine.
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If The Semicolon Can Make It There, It Can Make It Anywhere
Rare and exceptionally correct use of the semi-colon in a New York City transit notice card brings notice, plaudits
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Digital Approaches To Cartographic Heritage Meet Scheduled for Barcelona
Free conference scheduled for June 2008 in Barcelona.
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Geo-Cluelessness Makes For Good Humor
Maps playing on geographical ignorance provide laughs, address issues.
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Trajan Is The Movie Font – Don’t Question It!
Kirby Ferguson (of GoodieBag) connects the dots for us:
Keep an eye out for the Comic Sans cameo, too.
This is one of those things that you won’t notice until someone points it out to you … then you pretty much notice it everywhere.
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Blog Of Interest: Show Off Your Maps!
Just noted today: an adventurous map blogger makes the following bold statement:
For a while now, we’ve thought to ourselves: wouldn’t it be great if there was some place on the web where map collectors could get together to compare their collections and discuss map collecting? We decided to stop thinking and start doing! Show Off Your Maps is a website by map collectors, for map collectors. We’re here to give collectors everywhere a place to discuss the wonderful world of antique maps and to show off what they’ve got. There’s only one rule: have fun!
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- Northern European Geography 101
Can't keep Norway and Sweden straight? Let this diagram help.
- Site To See: Historic City Maps
Jerusalem-based academic community digitizes, displays for all historic city maps from around Europe and the world.
- You Suck At Photoshop
Donnie Hoyle gives it to you plain, on wry, with a heavy dose of dark humor in the most uniquely-pitched and effective Photoshop tutorials we've seen in a while.
Identity Crisis! Has Broad Appeal
Portland logo designer's book illustrates ins and outs of brand rethinks in format that pleases both the logo maven and at least a few members of the public at large
- Ork Posters – Neighborhoods As Typographic Art
Simple typographic artistic neighborhood posters entertain the eye and the mind.
- The Gallery Of Regrettable Type: We’ll Pass On This Party
Contributor Jeff Marshall sends along this example of a party for the eyes, proving, sometimes, too much is indeed more than enough:
All those type sizes! All those colors! I was still drowsy from sleep when I looked at that; that scene of the two all-fruit fruit juice nugget factory workers fleeing in terror from the explosion at the factory cleared that up. I just hope they made it out okay. Reuters, are you on this one?
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- The Gallery Of Regrettable Type: Some Dashes Are More Equal Than Others
This text ain't big enough for both of us
- FontLab Releases New ScanFont 5 As Plug-in
New version functions as Plug-in for major FontLab programs, touts improved GUI amongst other improved features
New community gives typesetters a chance to chat typographically
- Annual Report? Got One In The Oven
Annual Report for Food Company contains thermoreactive ink; could satisfy both the designer and the chef in everyone.
- Adobe AIR Takes Flight With New Logo
New AIR logo tries for originality, suggests the three major parts of the whole.
- Toys “R” Us Logo Redesign Doesn’t Mess Too Much With Success
Legedary toy giant remakes logo, achieves successful update which does not desert the classic
- Fonts & Encodings: Informative, Complete, Witty
New O'Reilly reference book has just about everything you could ever want to know about digital typography; If it's not in here, you probably don't need it.
- Northern European Geography 101
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