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Free 58-page ebook from Adobe helps you plan a migration and smooth your transition from QuarkXPress to InDesign CS4.

Our favorite new features in InDesign CS4.

As New York Fashion Week begins, Pantone once again releases the 10 hottest colors for the upcoming season. Download exclusive ready-to-use palettes of the Spring 2009 colors.

Mix it up in the nuts and bolts of character styles, then put the pieces together for power.

Whether you need to collaborate with the person over the cube wall from you or across the planet, InDesign CS3 has several powerful ways to coordinate joint efforts among creatives. In this excerpt from the new book Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, author Pariah S. Burke will help you build an efficient, effective collaboration workflow.

In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Quark VS InDesign.com scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free fonts—living or dead. We found over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts—and they’re all free!

Gene Gable takes a first look at the newly announced QuarkXPress 8. It’s not the same old QuarkXPress.

With new tools for presenting portfolios, Flash integration, and online collaboration, Acrobat Pro 9 offers amazing new ways to promote, package, polish, and share PDF content

Quark to discontinue desktop products, move entirely to server-based publishing systems? That’s the rumor.

Extensis unveils all new, blazingly fast server-based font management system—Universal Type Server. Last week I got a sneak peak. It was like going from dialup to broadband all over again.

Design and editorial, often played against one another by their disparate layout and word processing software, finally have common ground, an equalizer, in InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3. In this excerpt from the new book Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, author Pariah S. Burke will help designers establish an effective, efficient collaboration workflow with editorial, one that can virtually eliminate the need for designers to effect copy edits and proof after proof after proof.

Ray Schiavone talks about QuarkXPress 8, competing with InDesign, and Quark tech support returning to the U.S. He hints at Quark going public, but then ducks the big questions. We have what Schiavone said, and what he didn’t.

CS3 release of Adobe’s editorial collaboration tool provides give-and-take with designers while allowing editorial to get the job done.

Sunday, a Quark insider alleged layoffs, fiscal irresponsibility, and slumping sales. Wednesday Quark responded. I spoke with Ray Schiavone, president and CEO of Quark, about recent layoffs in the U.S. and India, about the state of Quark’s finances, and about whether QuarkXPress 7 is selling.

Highly placed Quark insider alleges sudden layoffs, irresponsible spending, and alarmingly low sales.

Free update to version 7.3 available now; extends support to five additional languages;
maintenance release demonstrates commitment to addressing user-reported issues

Winners from three different countries take home US$7,000 in prizes for designing alterate Adobe Creative Suite 3 application icons.

Download award-winning replacement icons for Adobe Creative Suite 3 and CS3 version applications.

When a little plus sign appears next to an entry on the Paragraph Style palette, designers want to clear that plus sign. Doing so, however, wipes away desired local text formatting as well as undesired. That is, unless you apply italics, bold, and other formatting the smart way.

Still on the fence about InDesign and InCopy CS3? Here are 10 new things that we don’t think we’d be able to do without.