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The Future of Creative Applications

Posted by: Harbs on: October 23rd, 2011 | 2 Comments

After holding out a year and a half, I just bought my first iPad.

I remember when the iPad came out. My initial reaction was different than most people. My thinking was “what good is it?”. Yeah. It was cool, but it didn’t do anything special. I remember talking to my friend David Blatner at the CS Developer conference in Seattle last year soon after the iPad came out. He showed me his iPad and I asked him what’s so great about it. “What do you mean? It’s great! The kids love it! You have pictures, videos…” I just didn’t get it. I don’t need toys. What does it do for me?

What was I missing that everyone else seemed to get? Read more


Thoughts on Extending the Creative Suite

Posted by: Harbs on: October 16th, 2011 | 6 Comments

Adobe must have the most extendable pro applications on the planet, and I think that has a good deal to do with their success.

Here’s just some musings on the methods available: Read more


Use Power Headers to Automatically Override Master Frames

Posted by: Harbs on: October 11th, 2011 | No Comments

An issue just came up on the InDesign Talk Google group:

How do you get content on master pages to show up in a TOC (Table of Contents)? Read more


Convert Colors to Grayscale in InDesign

Posted by: Harbs on: October 6th, 2011 | 20 Comments

There was recently a discussion on the InDesign forums where John Hawkinson was trying to find a way to get grayscale values using the eyedropper tool.
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PrintUI.com service launched!

Posted by: Harbs on: October 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Our blog has been pretty quiet for a while — because we’ve been hard at work!
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