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Cutting-Edge Conference for Print and Digital Publishing

Whether you're looking for the latest tips on publishing to tablets and ebooks, want details on the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 6, or just need tips to optimize your print workflow, PEPCON is the place. The conference takes place in San Francisco on May 14-16.

Best of the Blogs: August 15, 2011

It's an excellent round-up this time, with Photoshop tips, typography tricks, publishing news, and much more. And read to the end to find out why you'll soon be speccing shades of orange as Apu, Garfield, or Tigger.

Recosoft's PDF Converter Apps Now Ready for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Is Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is in your future, or you've already upgraded? Do you rely on Recosoft software to convert PDFs? You're in good shape.

Quickly Compare Two PDF Documents

If you're a Mac user who wants a quicker, more informed way to identify differences between two or more PDF files, consider PDF Comparator Professional from Premedia Systems.

Best of the Blogs: July 7, 2011

Mega-retailer Target meets tiny Hamilton Wood Type; Acrobat Pro X users get testy; photographers are called idiots; Photoshop warps girls' minds; and the Web is doomed. Read these and many other interesting tidbits culled from the past few weeks of design, graphics, and photography blog posts.

Mac Users of Acrobat X, Download this Update

If you want to touch up vector objects and other images, you need Acrobat 10.1 Pro update.

Add Tracking and Commenting Tools to InDesign with New Plug-In

DTP Tools invites you to take part in a public beta of Annotations, the company's new InDesign plug-in.

Update to InDesign Plug-in for Publishing to the iPad

Aquafadas has released version 0.9 of its InDesign plug-in for digital publishing.

Free Printing Guidance for Adobe Apps

The Creative Suite 5/5.5 Printing Guide is 140 pages full of insider printing info that comes straight from the source: Adobe. The PDF, which covers InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Photoshop, is a free download.

Best of the Blogs: June 23, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in the blogosphere over the last few weeks: an homage to the golden age of script lettering, photography tutorials, solutions for prying open ancient Word files, Web typography tips, and strategies for self-marketing. Plus Oprah!

Updated Tool Promises to Optimze PDFs for Tablet Viewing

Update 2 of PitStop Pro 10 and PitStop Server 10 concentrates on outputting PDFs that are highly compatible with Apple's iPad and with other tablets. Update 2 is free for registered users of PitStop Pro 10 and PitStop Server 10.

Get Up to Speed on Acrobat

Online educators CS Magic are offering an "Acrobat Techniques" webinar series. The next two sessions focus on Acrobat collaboration and print techniques, but you can watch recordings of the entire series at whatever day and time fits your schedule.

PDF2ID Now Compatible with InDesign CS5.5

Recosoft's PDF-to-InDesign file converter is now compatible with InDesign CS to the just-released InDesign CS5.5.

Bring Out Your Wallet: Adobe CS5.5 Is Now for Sale

Find out which programs upgraded to 5.5 and how much it all costs.

InDesigners, Download this Update

Adobe has issued a patch that is strongly recommended for users of InDesign CS5.

Extract Vector Logos from PDFs

We designers have learned to work around all sorts of situations that aren't ideal. For example, sometimes the only available vector version of a logo is embedded in a PDF. Here's how to extract that logo from the PDF.

Best of the Blogs: April 21, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in the blogosphere over the past few weeks. Get tips for caring for you camera, fending off pushy designers, and taming that pesky Illustrator. Peer into the InDesign dreams (or nightmares) of designers and see the first digital camera ever. Get up close and personal with Roger Black, Matthew Carter, and Jonathan Ive. And watch video clips of print jobs gone awry. Just think "Pink!"

Adobe Upgrades Several Products to CS5.5

InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, and others have added tools to help you produce content for tablets and other mobile devices. Adobe also introduced new subscription pricing.

InPreflight 2.9 for InDesign Adds File Delivery

This feature update to Zevrix Solutions' document-preparation software checks InDesign documents and prepares them for final output and shipping. The new version lets you automatically send collected jobs over the Internet and locally.

Add Stamps to PDFs on the iPad

PDF Expert version 2.3 now has a complete set of tools related to adding stamps, logos and text notes to PDF documents. All edits in the document can be flattened making it readable on any desktop or mobile device.