Reviews: Font Manager Face-Off

Reviews: Written by Ted LoCascio on September 28, 2007

We pit eight Mac and Windows font managers against each other. Who will win the fight?

Review: Adobe InDesign CS3

Reviews: Written by Michael Murphy on April 20, 2007

Go ahead...make my layout. This new version makes short work of design and production tasks across the board.

Review: HVC Color Composer

Reviews: Written by Brian P. Lawler on March 23, 2007

This Photoshop plug-in adds an intuitive color selection tool that will save time and money -- once you grasp its complexity.

Review: Five InDesign Plug-Ins

Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen Jamie McKee on February 2, 2007

Adobe InDesign has a lot of features, but for some specific tools, you need a plug-in. These five plug-ins, with prices from free to $100, will help you prepare print files, share styles, and more.

Review: Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Reviews: Written by Susan Glinert Stevens on December 18, 2006

More for the Office, Less for Creative Pros.

Review: Quark Print Collection

Reviews: Written by Brian P. Lawler on November 27, 2006

Its imposition and marking tools for QuarkXpress or Adobe Acrobat are top-notch, and its price is surprisingly low. Do you need this new bundle of tricks?

Review: Quark Interactive Designer 1.0

Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen on November 19, 2006

A long quest for a simple, easy-to-learn Flash program is over. Or is it?

Review: QuarkXPress 7

Reviews: Written by Jay J. Nelson on May 31, 2006

In many ways, it's a great leap forward. In other ways, it falls short. Is the new version enough to keep current XPress users in the Quark fold? Can it even entice some people back from InDesign?

Review: Adobe InDesign CS2

Reviews: Written by Keith Gilbert on May 4, 2005

Should you buy the new InDesign? Here's the lowdown on the new features, who they benefit, and whether the price is right.

Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional

Reviews: Written by Susan Glinert Stevens on March 15, 2005

Adobe released a new version of its Acrobat software. Is the upgrade worth $449? Read on for a firsthand look at the pros and cons.

The Digital Dish: Plugging PageMaker into InDesign

Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen on April 13, 2004

Loyal PageMaker fans shed a tear when Adobe announced it was discontinuing the application. But PageMaker lives on as a set of plug-ins for InDesign. What do you get? Sandee Cohen takes a look.

Adobe FrameMaker 7.1: Fast Software for Long Documents

Reviews: Written by Susan Glinert Stevens on February 17, 2004

Producers of technical documentation have long sung the praises of Adobe FrameMaker, but other print designers may wonder what's the big deal. That may change with FrameMaker 7.1, which includes powerful QuarkXPress and PageMaker filters and whizzy conditional-text features.

InDesign CS: Adobe Ups the Ante Once Again

Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen on December 16, 2003

Page layout these days is a high-stakes poker game full of bidding, bluffing, and raking in the chips. With the release of InDesign CS, Adobe adds new features that may make users of other programs throw in their cards. Should you join the game? Sandee Cohen has the answer in her review.

QuarkXPress 6.0: A Safe Upgrade in Dangerous Times

Reviews: Written by Gene Gable on July 8, 2003

QuarkXPress's perch on top of the page-layout heap has long been undisputed. But with increased competition from InDesign, the pressure is on Quark to produce an upgrade that secures its standing. Does QuarkXPress 6.0 deliver? Gene Gable reviews the Mac OS X version of XPress.

Corel Ventura 10: Powerhouse Publishing for PCs

Reviews: Written by Susan Glinert Stevens on September 30, 2002

Often left in the shadows of bigger names, Corel Ventura 10 is a heavyweight desktop publishing program for all types of documents. With XML and PDF support, this venerable program can stand up with the rest.

Hands On With Adobe InDesign 2.0

Reviews: Written by David Schloss on June 10, 2002

After many hours of pouring over the program I've come to find that it surpasses InDesign 1.5 in both feature set, and ease of use, and has entered the realm of "crucially important tool" along with Photoshop, Illustrator and the former king of the DTP hill, Quark.

Come to Order: FrameMaker 7 Gives Structure to Documents

Reviews: Written by Susan Glinert Stevens on June 3, 2002

Adobe FrameMaker 7 is a different kind of layout program than QuarkXPress or InDesign. With its strong layout tools FrameMaker excels at long-document production then adds extensive XML support for creating structured documents.

QuarkXPress 5: Moving Ahead or Falling Behind?

Reviews: Written by Susan Glinert Stevens on March 11, 2002

InDesign 2.0: Where Creativity and Productivity Meet

Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen on January 28, 2002

I divide using a page-layout program into two distinct experiences. The first part is the creative experience. This is when a designer or art director uses a page-layout program as part of the initial design process. InDesign 2.0 excels here.

PageMaker's Lucky Number 7

Reviews: Written by Susan Glinert Stevens on December 4, 2001

When Adobe announced it was updating PageMaker, some page-layout watchers wondered why. The good news is that users who are comfortable with PageMaker will find some welcome enhancements in version 7. Others looking for a great leap forward will be disappointed.