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It's easy to look at an interim release of a major product as a piecemeal upgrade, one that offers a few good features but still lacks the exciting feel of […]

Three DTP powerhouses face off PageMaker, XPress, or DesignStudio? By Rick LePage The dust has settled and the prerelease hype is over for Aldus Corp., Letraset and Quark Inc. Over […]

Quark listens to users, puts on new interface Quark XPress 3.0 Quark Inc. List price: $795 +Rich feature set; vast interface improvements; multiple master-page templates; vertical justification of text blocks; […]

PageMaker fills feature gaps Version 4.0 adds type, story control Aldus Corp. List price: $795; upgrade for users of earlier versions: $150; for extended technical support subscribers: $75 +Powerful Story […]

Adobe Systems Inc. steams into Seybold San Francisco this week with a one-two punch aimed at keeping the company foremost in users' minds as the premier vendor of graphics applications […]

VivaPress Pro 1.5 offers high-end DTP alternative Score card: VivaPress Professional 1.5 Interpress Technologies Inc. List price: $895* Overall value 3: (Good) VivaPress Professional, the latest pretender to QuarkXPress' throne, […]

DesignStudio takes on page-layout goliaths Letraset List price: $795; upgrade for Ready,Set,Go! customers: $250 Rich set of typographic controls; good style-sheet mechanism; text and graphic objects can be set in […]

WHEN APPLE ANNOUNCED LAST YEAR THAT ALL MACS introduced in 2003 would start up only in Mac OS X, the loudest cries came from the professional publishing community, who had […]

The popularity of PostScript typefaces bodes well for high-end users. ... but how will the fonts look on screen? Apple promises delivery of better WYSIWYG The WYSIWYG appeal of the […]

It might not be like the triumphant return of Julius Caesar from the Gallic Wars, but this week's Seybold San Francisco show should be a welcome homecoming for Adobe Systems […]

......................... Score Card: QuarkXPress Quark Inc. Version tested: 3.2 List price: $895* Overall value 5 Performance 4 Features 5 Ease of use 4 Documentation/support 3 * Upgrades, $150 for registered […]

Seybold Seminars casts new light on publishing ISSUES & TRENDS Publishing machinations. There was plenty of intrigue along with new things to see at Seybold Seminars '91, held recently in […]

Products Database publishing again. A while ago we wrote about DataShaper, a database publishing utility from ElseWare Corp. that works with Aldus Corp.'s PageMaker 4.0 (see MacWEEK, Sept. 18). Since […]

Typeface spec sheets: Examining the options While the lack of a type spec sheet is no big deal, it is nice to be able to have a reference card for […]

Book series: Electronic art, design by example A new series of books from M&T Books and the editors of Verbum magazine should be informative for users who need to cope […]

Filling in the gaps in the Mac publishing market Products When the first desktop publishing tools began to appear, it was easy to ride on the enthusiasm of being able […]

MaxAppleZoom INIT fattens up screen space PRODUCTS Boosting display area. MaxAppleZoom is one of the best "hacks" we've ever seen for the Macintosh. It's a Startup document (INIT) that expands […]

PageMaker 4.0 help: Books, tips and shortcuts Bugs & tips Real-world tips. Aldus Corp.'s documentation for PageMaker 4.0 is well-written and essentially complete, but it does not successfully cover all […]

Font conflict enters Round 2: This time it's font names Bugs & tips New font conflicts. Many users with large type libraries will recall the chaos that arose a couple […]

RIC FORD AND RICK LEPAGE Fax and figures for serious publishers RESOURCES A "down in the trenches" newsletter. While there are a number of outlets for new product information in […]

RIC FORD AND RICK LEPAGE ISSUES & TRENDS Smoke and mirrors. If the number of irate users who have called us is any indication, Adobe's phones must be ringing off […]

What's an NFNT, and what does it have to do with anything? The NFNT (new font numbering table) resource is part of the code that makes up Macintosh screen fonts […]

Seeking the perfect marriage of text and graphics ISSUES & TRENDS Dealing with graphics. One of the Mac's constant sources of strength has been its graphics orientation. Most Macintosh productivity […]