CS5 Revealed, For Real

Well, a little. If you like your geek in big thick slabs, check out the Adobe Creative Suite Developer Summit. It runs through Friday, May 15th and offers live, free sessions (via Adobe Connect) on many cutting edge  Adobe technologies, including stuff that may find its way into Creative Suite 5.
Note that this is a [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite!

This post really is this week’s “Lunchtime Links,” but after Will Smith’s reference to “Boom Goes the Dynamite” on the Oscars, I just can’t help myself. It beyond-cracks me up. I say it and I can’t stop giggling. It’s one of those things that somehow bypasses my consciousness and links directly to the spastic laughter [...]

TLF, my new BFF

Peoples, peoples, peoples, if you are the least bit interested seeing what will drive publishing workflows in the very near future, run, don’t walk your mouse over to the Adobe Labs and check out everything you can on Text Layout Framework. Such a dull-sounding name for such a mind-blowing technology. They should have called it [...]

Dark Suite of the Moon

Ever hear of the urban legend that states if you play the CD of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon while you watch The Wizard of Oz, you see amazing synchronicity between the two? Example: Dorothy listens at the Tin Woodsman’s chest just as the sound of a heartbeat plays on the album. True [...]

The Lightbulb Goes On

Happy Birthday, CS4!
Adobe gave birth today to a bouncing baby suite. Weighing in at a solid 17 ounces, and sporting a healthy silver coloring, CS4 was greeted with a tinge of jealousy by its older siblings, CSs 1-3. CEO Shantanu Narayen was seen passing out thousands of cigars around greater San Jose.
Seriously, though this is [...]

CS5 Revealed!

Yes, that’s right my friends, CS five! Anybody can show you CS4, but only here at Publicious will you get the scoop on CS5. We have obtained super secret plans from our moles within the Adobe empire, revealing a radical new direction for the Creative Suite.
Codenamed XMullet, the Creative Suite is being reworked from the [...]

Click This Book

Now that the 800-pound gorilla of InDesign has left the room, let’s see what’s else is on the radar.
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to devote more time to checking out Photoshop CS4, and other pieces of the Creative Suite, and reporting back what I find here.
And I have another book report coming up. [...]

You Say You Want a Revolution

Well, you know, I just want to change the head.
My grand schemes for a site re-design, complete with lickable CSS have been foiled by that cruel master, time. Just ain’t enough of him to go around. Maybe someday. For now, here’s a start (all you puzzled RSSers, come visit the site). Hope you like the [...]

Spoiler Sport

Coming Soon to a screen near you! InDesign/InCopy CS4: Rise of the App Frame. News of CS4 is all over the place, but you can’t buy the programs yet. However, you can read and download the entire Help files for InDesign and InCopy CS4. They are free and open to the public. Yeah, it’s a [...]

Family Cookbook 2.0, part 3

Has it been more than a week since we left off with the cookbook project? My how blog time flies. Let’s continue.
During the first two posts on this topic, we converted the old XPress file, and tagged the content in InDesign and exported it. Right now we have XML masquerading as HTML. Let’s open it [...]