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Acrobat’s Stamp tool can prevent a lot of confusion if you use it for things like explaining Lorem Ipsum placeholder text and FPO images on client proofs. But rather than settling for Acrobat’s generic stamps, you can create your own. Yeehaw!

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New editions of Creative Suite target print, web, video, and gotta-have-it-all designers.

Monday was a busy day for Adobe with announcements of new products, upgrades, and even potentially catastrophic security holes in PDF.

British security researcher has discovered, proven, and published ways to use legitimate features of PDF files to deliver malicious code payloads and even search and retrieve data from any connected data source on a target computer.

New software developer onOne Software purchases popular line of productivity enhancement products for Photoshop and QuarkXPress.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 28, 2005—Quark and X-Rite (NASDAQ:XRIT) announce two new color management bundles exclusively for QuarkAlliance members…

In a recent interview with Investors Business Daily, Stephen Elop, CEO of Macromedia, expressed confident optimism about the Adobe-Macromedia merger, the DOJ investigation, and customer reactions…

FlightCheck Studio Resolves Design Problems With Quick And Easy Detection And Correction!
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World leader in dynamic enterprise publishing releases the latest version of their XML-based automated scriptless publishing system.
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Will XPress 7.0 be the upgrade that puts Quark back on top? CreativePro.com’s Gene Gable spent two days at Quark’s Denver headquarters to find out and emerged with a cautiously optimistic exclusive report that delves deeper into what Quark has let out of the bag so far–and hints at a few things they haven’t.

How would you fill type with artwork or imagery? Would you do it in Photoshop or Illustrator…

As Adobe and Macromedia await word of DOJ rulings on the impending merger and what will become of the companies’ competitive products, both move forward with stockholder votes. But if applications–DreamWeaver, GoLive, FreeHand, FireWorks, or Homesite–have to sell, who is likely to buy?

History 2.0 plug–in for Adobe InDesign and InCopy is released
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A new deal with Scholastic hopes to increase Quark exposure among future generations of Australian creatives, but the current state of Quark technology, coupled with the 200% markup for QuarkXPress down under, has the designers of today and tomorrow running straight into InDesign’s arms. We have to ask: Is Quark really wooing Australian creatives, or should we use another verb that rhymes with wooing?

Over at CreativePro.com, the current weekly contest prize is a copy of Adobe CreativeSuite 2 Premium Edition…

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Electronic-Publishing Talks Quark VS InDesignIn the current issue of Electronic-Publishing editor Keith Hevenor details the history and rivalry of the desktop publishing giants, as well discussing EP’s own transition from Quark to InDesign…

There’s been a lot of talk lately about Variable Data Publishing (VDP) support on the desktop. VDP solutions exist for InDesign—and more are on the way. But what are those solutions…

Adobe shareholder claims announcement to buy Macromedia breached fiduciary duty to shareholders.
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Quark has been talking up Job Definition Format (JDF) support in the upcoming release of QuarkXPress 7. But, isn’t JDF already being used with InDesign CS2…

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DENVER—(QUARKvsINDESIGN.com)—June 21, 2005—Quark Inc…

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DENVER—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 9, 2005—Today Quark announced that effective immediately, Kamar Aulakh is no longer with the company…

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ZAANDAM, THE NETHERLANDS—(QuarkVSInDesign.com)—June 6, 2005—WoodWing Software has introduced Smart Catalog version 4…

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