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September 21st, 2008

Are You Ready for Something Brilliant?

That’s the title of Adobe’s invitation to the world for a special Web broadcast of the details of the eagerly-awaited Creative Suite 4. We who have been briefed on the product also signed the standard non-disclosure agreement (NDA) agreeing not to reveal any details before this September 23rd Webcast. But I don’t think that Adobe…

May 29th, 2008

QuarkXPress 8 Announced

After leading the page layout sweepstakes for many years, QuarkXPress was slowly but surely falling behind Adobe InDesign in sales and functionality as the #1 page layout program (primarily for print). When Bruce Chisholm was at the helm at Adobe he championed the concept that Microsoft has used so effectively for years: bundle a bunch…

July 31st, 2007

The Adobe-FedEx/Kinko’s Non-Event

Many of you will have by now heard of Adobe’s great gaffe in the Acrobat 8.1 of licensing FedEx/Kinko’s to add a little button to the Acrobat toolbar making in a no-brainer for users to send their output files to that large and well-respected chain of, dare I say it, “quick printers” The button can…