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Common Sense Pays Off

Jul 14, 2016 at 11:05 am by staff

Doggone that Joey Young. And doggone that Al Cross, too. While we're at it, doggone the managing editor of that daily in Tennessee and the journalist from the metro paper who.... Read More

Industry-related pubs begin take notice of growing community newspapers

Jun 14, 2016 at 11:31 am by staff

A few months back, I had breakfast with the publisher of a very successful community newspaper in Minnesota. As we walked around the restaurant, I was introduced to local resi.... Read More

A Newspaper Fable

Apr 28, 2016 at 05:20 pm by staff

Imagine with me, if you will.   It's January 2020. NFL football has been making record profits, primarily due to product licensing and TV contracts, year after year. &.... Read More

Making Things Right: Doing the little (and big) things right is the key to success

Apr 20, 2016 at 05:32 pm by staff

The past four weeks have been a blur. I remember driving along a beach in Florida, using a snow shovel for the first time during a blizzard in Minnesota, eating pizza with old.... Read More

You might be losing more than pages with lower page counts

Mar 23, 2016 at 05:24 pm by staff

There is a rule of thumb which almost always proves to be true at newspaper conventions: attendance drops drastically on Saturday morning. There are plenty of theories on the.... Read More

Corel Unleashed Magazine Unveiled

May 22, 2007 at 12:37 pm by staff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Foster Coburn, President 480/595-0065 CorelDRAW Unleashed Magazine Announced CAVE CREEK, July 3, 2007 Unleashed Productions is hap.... Read More

Quark Offers Volume Licensing

May 21, 2007 at 08:23 am by staff

New Quark Volume Licensing Program Reduces Costs and Increases Efficiency of Purchasing and Deploying Multiple QuarkXPress Licenses Quark’s New Initiative Offers Discounts.... Read More

MultiAd

Apr 02, 2007 at 03:43 pm by staff

April 2, 2007 (Peoria, IL) - MultiAd is now shipping MultiAd

Extensis Announces Plug-ins for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS3

Mar 29, 2007 at 03:39 pm by staff

PORTLAND, Ore. - March 29, 2007 - Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc., today announced free plug-ins to provide the world's most advanced font activation and deactivation f.... Read More

Xant

Mar 12, 2007 at 03:33 pm by staff

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Nov 13, 2007 at 09:45 pm by staff

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Familiar Problem With Photoshop Leads To Embarrassment

Nov 03, 2007 at 05:04 pm by staff

In my business, nothing is more embarrassing than having a computer glitch in front of an audience. Fortunately, that hasn’t happened to me in a long time. Well, not until rec.... Read More

Photoshop, Acrobat and InDesign Questions dominate e-mail this month

Oct 06, 2007 at 11:02 am by staff

While traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast and back three times over the past three weeks, I’ve noticed a significant increase in the amount of e-mail I receive fro.... Read More

Create Pagination Workflow With Remote Users Utilizing InCopy CS3

Aug 02, 2007 at 02:33 pm by staff

If you’ve been reading this column for long, you know that I’m a big fan of Adobe InDesign. If you’ve been paying close attention, you’ve probably heard me mention InDesign’s.... Read More

Metro Creative Graphics Debuts ADS on Demand

Jul 03, 2007 at 03:35 pm by staff

I run across quite a few software vendors as I travel from one convention to another. Every now and then, I’ll see a new product that looks like it has potential for our indus.... Read More

Photoshop CS3: Worth the Price of an Upgrade?

Jun 02, 2007 at 02:15 pm by staff

I try to offer some variety in my columns, but sometimes it’s hard. Most of the e-mail requests I receive are related to Acrobat (PDF files), Photoshop and InDesign. All Adobe.... Read More

PDF Problems Lead List of Problems Faced By Readers This Month

May 03, 2007 at 07:05 pm by staff

I had great expectations for today. After spending three hours on the phone with a software representative, I realized the product I planned to review isn?t quite ready for pr.... Read More

What Have They Done To My InDesign?

Mar 29, 2007 at 10:30 pm by staff

Holy Moly! I

Adobe Unleashes Creative Suite 3 Product Line

Mar 27, 2007 at 08:31 pm by staff

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Adobe Sheds Light on Photo Editing with Photoshop Lightroom

Mar 02, 2007 at 06:01 am by staff

In late 2005, I received an e-mail from a colleague at Apple concerning the release of their product, Aperture. Aperture is a photo-editing program developed with the professi.... Read More

Adobe Releases Creative Suite 2

Apr 05, 2005 at 11:23 am by staff

We knew it was coming. It was just a question of when. This morning, Adobe announced the release of Creative Suite 2, an upgrade to their line of flagship applications. Like i.... Read More

MultiAd Creator Professional Worthy Contender in Battle for Newspaper Ad Design

Mar 31, 2005 at 02:13 pm by staff

MultiAd Creator has always intrigued me. Since its release in 1989, it

Books for the Acrobat and AirPort Aficionado

Mar 01, 2005 at 04:03 pm by staff

Three books hit the shelves in March that will be of great interest to newspaper techies. The first, Adobe Acrobat 7 Tips and Tricks, by Donna Baker, guides readers through ti.... Read More

Adobe Acrobat Upgrade Hard to Resist

Mar 01, 2005 at 03:58 pm by staff

Honestly, I don

InDesign vs. Quark Debate Headlines Annual Software Picks

Feb 02, 2005 at 02:29 pm by staff

Last month, we took a look at hardware available to newspaper professionals. This month, I

Newest Mac stirs interest in PC buying world

Jan 11, 2005 at 03:46 pm by staff

Yes, it

Convert to Pagination With InDesign the Easy Way

Jan 05, 2005 at 10:29 am by staff

Before Adobe introduced InDesign 1.0 to the public, Kevin Slimp served as a beta tester for the application. Within weeks of InDesign's release, Kevin was leading a training e.... Read More

Kevin's Favorite Hardware Products for 2005

Jan 05, 2005 at 09:48 am by staff

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Beginning of Year Good Time to Upgrade. 2005 Offers Plenty of Choices.

Dec 10, 2004 at 01:45 pm by staff

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Latest Version of Quark Shows Significant Improvement

Nov 04, 2004 at 03:15 pm by staff

Somebody pinch me. I think I