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PitStop Professional 8: the Über PDF Editor

When you have to preflight or fix a lot of PDFs, there’s no better tool than Enfocus’s PitStop Professional 8. This $699 tool not only preflights PDFs, it lets you adjust many attributes such as fonts, colors, line width, page size and image resolution. In addition, you can add or remove objects such as registration [...]

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Uncoated GoeGuide Now Available

Last October, Pantone released their new Goe spot color matching system. At the time only a coated fan guide was available, but now an uncoated guide is also available. Each one costs $130, or get both for $199. Goe has 2,058 colors — almost double the number of colors in the PMS system, with many [...]

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Quark Interactive Designer Compatible with Leopard

Over the past year, I’ve raved about Quark Interactive Designer, the XTension for QuarkXPress that lets you use QuarkXPress tools to create Flash-based interactive projects. And now, along with QuarkXPress 7.31, QuarkXPress 7.31 Updater: Certified for Windows Vista & Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, it’s compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Version 1.02 brings [...]

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QuarkXPress 7.3: What’s Improved

My previous posts pointed out some favorite improvements in the QuarkXPress 7.3 update, but I neglected to mention its faster speed. Quark is rightfully proud of its faster speed as well as its other improvements, which include: Spell checking is up to 500% faster. Files save up to 75% faster on local hard drives. Text [...]

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