page layout program

Apr 27 2009

PDFree

Yep

Yep is an interesting application. It tags, sorts and manages your PDF files. I sports a very Web 2.0 interface that is fast and filled with nice touches like a preview-on-hover and fast browse by tag.

yep PDFree

If you deal with or create a lot of PDF’s, the Yep is your new Finder. If tags aren’t your thing then Yep supports collections that bear a striking resemblance toiTunes playlists.

Scribus

The Open Source community has offered us some powerful alternatives to commercial pro design tools. Scribus is a mature Open Source page layout program that exports to PostScript and PDF.

scribus PDFree

Scribus is very feature-complete and sports a decent Aqua interface (unlike Inkscape’s nasty X11). Installation of the additional required frameworks is a bit of a pain, but the application is worth the trouble.

PDFMergeX

Don’t need to create a new PDF? Just need to rearrange some pages? PDFMergeX lets you reorder, add and remove pages in PDF files. This is especially useful with the way some document sprint to PDF in OS X.

Happy 8 Acrobat!

Brian

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Mar 27 2007

Adobe intros InDesign CS3

Adobe today announced Adobe InDesign CS3 software, the latest version of its award-winning professional page layout program. InDesign CS3 addresses design, efficiency and output challenges to improve the way that design, editorial, production and IT professionals work on a day-to-day basis. InDesign CS3 delivers a powerful, yet easy-to-use set of tools that enable creative exploration, streamline productivity, improve collaboration and automate layout and production of complex documents. The software is the keystone to Adobe’s comprehensive publishing solution that also includes Adobe InCopy CS3 and Adobe InDesign CS3 Server.
Adobe InDesign CS3 and Adobe InCopy CS3 will begin shipping in April 2007 to customers in the United States and Canada, and will be available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store. Estimated street price for the Adobe InDesign CS3 is USD$699 and USD$249 for Adobe InCopy CS3. Adobe InDesign CS3 Server will also be available to qualified Adobe developer partners in the second quarter of 2007 with pricing information available through qualified third parties.
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Dec 30 2004

Macworld Biased Against Adobe?

Quark VS InDesign.com accuses Macworld of bias against Adobe, maker of Photoshop, InDesign, and several other industry-standard creative applications, by ignoring Adobe’s products in the recently announced 20th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards.
After giving InDesign CS rave reviews all year, including a statement in a February 2004 article that “InDesign CS is the program that will relegate QuarkXPress to PageMaker’s status of a decade ago,” and, in the same article, “XPress’s unique strengths have dwindled to a few little-used functions,” Macworld editors still named QuarkXPress 6.5 the Most Improved Page-Layout Program.

Similarly, despite winning in several categories last year, Adobe’s Photoshop and After Effects, best-of-class standards among numerous professional creative industries, were passed over for Eddy Awards this time out.

Macworld’s editors “went back over the products they’d seen and reviewed over the past year—those released between November 1, 2003, and November 1, 2004—and they nominated their favorites.” The Quark VS InDesign .com article intimates that the editors’ favorites may have been motivated more by Apple’s recent aggressive competition to Adobe in certain markets than by the merits of the programs being judged.

“I think Macworld was actually honest, if you read carefully,” says Mark W. in a response to the Quark VS InDesign.com article. “In the 2003 Eddys Macworld ‘looked at nearly every new Mac product on the market between Nov. 1, 2002 to Nov. 1, 2003, evaluating their overall quality as well as their utility, innovation, and elegance.’ This time they just ‘nominated their favorites.’”
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