Reader Experience Survey

Tell us what you think about Quark VS InDesign.com and how it could be better for a chance to win some cool prizes.

We want to learn about you, and about what we're doing right, and what we could do better. So we've put together a little survey to help. Everyone who completes the survey will have a chance to win some cool stuff—including the latest next generation font manager, and two very cool books that are not only entertaining reads, but which also help you get your job done.

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Prizes

1 Copy of Extensis Suitcase Fusion
Suitcase Fusion integrates the strength and power of the two leading single-user font managers, Suitcase X1 and Font Reserve 3. By combining the much-desired user interface and ease-of-use of Suitcase, the capability and back-end power of Font Reserve, and the inclusion of additional font management capabilities and features, Extensis has created a tool uniquely suited to the needs of creative professionals.

Suitcase Fusion emerges as Extensis' first product in its next-generation font management software family. Suitcase Fusion is the upgrade path for both Suitcase and Font Reserve stand-alone users, and will allow both sets of users to easily upgrade their existing font databases to Suitcase Fusion.

Suitcase Fusion, a Mac OS X, single-user font manager, makes the many hassles of managing fonts effortless by including a central font repository, face level activation, font corruption checking and font identification technology. With Suitcase Fusion, users are provided automatic font activation so that they never have to think about activating the right fonts. By simply opening a document, a user's fonts are automatically activated by Suitcase Fusion. To meet professional font user's standards, Suitcase Fusion automatically categorizes fonts by classification, foundries, and font families to provide more font information. Additionally, users can create their own classifications and foundries and change them anytime. Suitcase Fusion also brings working with multiple font previews, collecting fonts for output, and organizing fonts via nested sets and keywords to the level that creative professionals demand.

5 Copies of Adobe Illustrator CS2@WORK by Pariah S. Burke
Unlike any software book you've ever read, Adobe Illustrator CS2 @Work by Pariah S. Burke teaches how and why to use the world's greatest drawing program through real world projects completed everyday, on the job, by working graphic designers and illustrators. Practical advice on planning and budgeting, overcoming your fear of Illustrator, knowing your rights, and negotiating with clients take this entertaining and confidence-building book even farther beyond the realm of just another software book.

Using the author's project files or your own, let Adobe Illustrator CS2 @WORK take you from blank page to polished deliverable with confidence. Projects include:

1. Designing a Logo (From Scratch or From a Scan)
2. Adding Logos and Artwork to Non-Flat Objects
3. Designing Corporate Identity Material
4. Illustrating an (Almost) Photo-Realistic Poster
5. Designing Product Packaging
6. Creating 3D Product Packaging Mockups
7. Designing a Tri-Fold Brochure
8. Designing and Color Proofing a Magazine Advertisement
9. Designing a DVD Package
10. Designing a Website and Flash Animation
11. Creating Graphs for a Report

Adobe Illustrator CS2 @WORK is about more than just Illustrator.

5 Copies of Adobe InDesign CS2@WORK by Cate Brosseau Indiano
Most how-to books teach the broadest possible user base with task-based education--explaining how to draw a shape or add a drop shadow--disconnected tasks that leave the reader to figure out how to string them together to build a workflow. As everyone who has ever tried to learn from one of these books knows, task-based education fails the vast majority of learners.

Adobe InDesign CS2@WORK by Cate Brosseau Indiano approaches learning a mission-critical applications like Adobe InDesign CS2 from the perspective of creative pros working in the real, make or break, deadline-driven world of publishing. Each chapter of Adobe InDesign CS2@WORKD is a complete project created every day on the job by real professional creatives. Each project begins with a blank page, and finishes with polished deliverables. Along the way, learn how and why to use a particular tool, command, or technique.

Read cover to cover, the book teaches and uses the application's most common features and functions, but, unlike task-based how-tos, reading Adobe InDesign CS2@WORK cover to cover isn't necessary to get your job done. Every chapter stands on its own as a fully hands-on, start-to-finish project that will teach you and get your work done at the same time.

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Rules

The rules for the giveaway are simple, short, and sweet.

To Enter: Complete the Quark VS InDesign.com Reader Experience Survey, and then complete a short electronic entry form.

Eligibility: You must be 18 years or older, and may not be an employee, contractor, or stakeholder in the Pariah Burke Group, Quark VS InDesign.com, Designorati.com, Extensis, Pearson Education, or Sams Publishing, or be an immediate family member of such an individual.

Even if you aren't eligible to enter the giveaway, please do complete the Reader Experience Survey—we want to hear every opinion about Quark VS InDesign.com.

The survey will be available—the giveaway accepting new entries—from 13 February through 27 February 2006. Winners will be chosen at random from the entrants, and announced on Quark VS InDesign.com Monday, 6 March 2006.

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