PDF Features

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.

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.

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!

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!"

Acrobat's TouchUp Text Tool: Dancing with the Devil

Using the TouchUp Text Tool can be like a pact with the devil. You may get the changes you want, but you may also get way more than you bargained for. However, there are three situations in which the TouchUp Text Tool is a valuable resource.

HerGeekness Says: Screen-Share with Your Clients

Letting far-flung clients see your screen makes online proofing as good as in-person proofs and online collaboration a cinch. Recent technology improvements free you from worrying about routers, firewalls, computer platforms, or browser compatibility.

TypeTalk: A Cornucopia of Font Facts

This month, learn how to handle scaling surprises, PDFs that need editing, an optical font family, and those weird marks some editor scribbled on your layout.

Search Faster in Large PDFs

Just one simple command in Acrobat 8 makes it far easier for you -- and your clients -- to hunt through massive files.

Plug-Ins and XTensions: Helpers for Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign, and QuarkXPress

This month's round-up of plug-ins and XTensions includes tools for getting better black-and-white images, adding frames to photos, exporting PSD files from PDFs, educating style sheets in Quark, and more.

Let Acrobat Organize You

Most people who use Acrobat 7 don't realize that it comes with its own free file browser and manager, called the Organizer. It gives you quick access to files anywhere on your hard drive. It can track locations of any PDF you've viewed in the last 24 months, show you the date and time a file was modified, let you group aliases of PDFs into virtual collections, and a lot more.

QuarkXPress 7 Public Beta: Not the Same Old Toolbox

From the most modern laser level to the trustiest ol' hammer, we've got the facts about everything in the QuarkXPress beta.

Microsoft Metro Takes on the World

A burgeoning Microsoft technology has been dubbed a "PDF killer." Should you toss Acrobat out the window?

Creativeprose: To Upgrade Or Not to Upgrade; That Is the Question

We asked if you were going to upgrade to the Adobe Creative Suite 2, and you answered.

Plug-Ins and XTensions: What's New for Photoshop, QuarkXPress, InDesign, and Acrobat

Do you have the wrong colors? Too smooth a bevel, or too noisy an image? Inconsistent tables? Is your printing out of control? We've got the software solutions for you.

The Art of Business: Do Unto Others

If every instance of copyright infringement were penalized, we'd all be in court. Here's the scoop on keeping fair and clean in a digital world.

dot-font: Twenty-five Years of Type

As the Type Directors Club celebrates fifty years of competitions and twenty-five years of annuals, John D. Berry takes a look at the resulting book, "Typography 25."

What's New In Creative Suite 2

In this excerpt from "InDesign Magazine Issue 5," we give you details on the hot new features in the suite as a whole, and in the updated Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign, and Acrobat.

dot-font: Acrobatics -- Putting the Story on the Screen

How do you meet the challenge of designing a PDF page for comfortable reading of a long piece of fiction -- onscreen? John Berry tells the saga.

dot-font: Stylin' Communication

A practical handbook from India, "Communicating in Style," gives technical and scientific writers good advice on both their words and how to present them.

The Art of Business: Welcome the E-Magazine

Digital "replicas" of print magazines offer publishers a number of benefits and may provide graphic artists with new markets to ply their trade. Eric J. Adams takes a closer look.