Let me be perfectly blunt about this: I do my page layout in InDesign. I’ve used Freehand before–though it’s been a few years now and I have Illustrator on both my systems and resort to it more and more frequently. Based on what the programs were designed and marketed to be, Freehand and Illustrator are […]

I’m fascinated by the different ways that graphic designers work. Coming to it late in the game and with no “formal” education, I haven’t been “taught” a way to work and I have developed my own workflow based on what’s comfortable to me. And because of Adobe’s fleet of software being mostly driven by a […]

OK, is it just me or has western culture gone more than a little iCrazy? If Apple can’t win on the computer front, it definitely stands on top of the world on other fronts. Stick an “i” on the front of it and just wait for the hordes to arrive, willing to spend big bucks […]

I’m probably not the best qualified to weigh in on this debate to a great degree. I’ve used InDesign since version 1 and was a PageMaker user prior to that. However, I have opened and printed Quark documents from Quark 4.1, and I have to say I have never seen a clunkier program. Maybe I’m […]

Ten years ago, this was a much bigger issue then it is now. The compatibility between the rival systems was unreliable, and users could tell at a glance which system a given file was produced on and, if it was the rival to the one they favored, they could honestly reject the file because of […]