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Scanning Around With Gene: Everybody Loves a Party!

Worried that your next party will be a failure? Not with these games to break the ice. Who could resist Bottle Bombing, Appleplexy Race, and Para Shoot?

New Digital Delivery for Designers, Printers

Zevrix has released File Courier for FTP and local digital delivery.

Canto Cumulus 8.1 Shipping Soon

This update, available in December 2009, leverages the power and stability of the new architecture and introduces standalone client software.

Quark Selling Design Templates & Printing to Small Businesses

The new online service, QuarkPromote.com, includes customizable templates for business cards, postcards, flyers, brochures, appointment cards, coupons, letterhead and envelopes. The templates and QuarkPromote service are free and the customer pays for printing. Quark splits the revenue from each print order with the software company's print partners.

QuarkXPress Training Video Round-Up

QuarkAlliance partners roll out training videos for QuarkXPress users at all levels.

Barcode Producer Now Cross-Platform

Apparent has updated Barcode Producer to version 5.6, now available as a cross-platform product for Mac OS X and Windows. Barcode Producer 5.6 also delivers support for the Code 93 symbology, an enhanced version of Code 39 with high density printing support.

MadeToPrint Workflow Software Updated

The new version of axaio's MadeToPrint eliminates manual steps in publishing software job package and book processing.

Master the Creative Suite with CS Magic's Online Seminars

This new training company will present its first webinar on PDF presentations on November 24, 2009.

New Guide Helps You Become Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign

Ace the ACE exam with this $9.95 ebook from Mike Rankin and InDesinSecrets.com

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2

Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.

Easy Fixes for Microsoft Word Formatting in InDesign

Two free and easy-to-use scripts convert Word's local formatting to InDesign's character styles. Two more retain InDesign formatting when you export text formatted with automatically applied character styles.

TypeTalk: Distorting Type

Are you tempted to stretch or squeeze letters, perhaps to make a headline or subhead fit better? Don't do it!

Client Gift: You-Branded Coasters

If you're giving work-related gifts this year and haven't yet begun, check out this inspirational example.

Neenah Paper Introduces Eco-Calculator for iPhone

The free Eco-Calculator app for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch figures the environmental savings achieved by using paper made with post-consumer fiber, as well as the savings from using paper made with 100 percent renewable energy.

Scanning Around With Gene: The Pioneering Look Magazine

From 1937 to 1971, Look magazine was a publishing powerhouse that pioneered unique photographic and printing techniques.

Type Luminaries Speak on PRI

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, and Tracy Honn discuss typefaces past and present in a recent episode of "To the Best of Our Knowledge." Thanks to the Internet, you can listen to it right now!

Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress

This process is ideal when you want to give a Web developer pictures that you cropped, rotated, or altered in QuarkXPress. It's also useful for converting a picture from one file format or color space to another.

Design for the U.S. Mint

Here's an unusual job title: United States Mint designer. It's taking applications now.

Add Language Support to InDesign & Illustrator CS4

WinSoft's ScribeDOOR adds new complex script capabilities to InDesign and Illustrator. Languages include Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi, as well as many Indic and South-East Asian languages

Mega Prizes for Veer's Logo Contest

Retailer Veer will give a grand prize package worth almost $8,000 to the winning re-creation of the Veer logo using real-world objects or materials.