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Last Week on My Mac: Problems of PDF

Why don’t some PDFs display properly outside Adobe software? Will PDFs ever become more accessible? And what to do when they get damaged?

February 17, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

QuarkXPress 2016 due “in the second quarter”: pre-release deals now on offer

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I much prefer QuarkXPress to InDesign, and it works out around £30 per year cheaper too.

March 18, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Broken words in InDesign

How can I control hyphenation in Adobe InDesign? Do I need a plugin?

September 27, 2015 Macs, Technology

Rip Mac Winkle

A simple task: upgrade some iMacs with the latest OS X and Adobe CS4. But would they print?

August 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

Adobe Tax Avoidance: a CC alternative for the prosumer

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For prosumers, who need high-end power but can choose how we get it, Adobe CC posed the problem of how to assemble a suite of apps which could do much the same thing, only without the interminable cost.

July 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Opening PageMaker documents

How can we open two documents created using Adobe PageMaker running on an old eMac under Mac OS 9.2?

June 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Layout to database 2: Building a Database by Script

I have now used the first of three days allowed to rescue content from thousands of InDesign forms. Entering the second day, I had converted each document into a nest of IDML content, and needed to build that into the database.

April 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

Layout to database 1: Out of beauty comes forth structure

My task was to turn over 7500 files into a database, in which we could search, sort, and analyse – something normally viewed as requiring prolonged labour and great cost. I had just 3 days.

April 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

Words on Macs: 3 From text to documents

Once acquired, text needs to be structured and formatted. This guides you through different formats and editing options.

March 25, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology
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