Mac print-publishing software news, reviews and tips

Review: iScrapbook 2.1

Katherine Murray — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:15:00 -0800

Scrapbooking program offers high-quality design, easy layouts, and a seemingly unlimited supply of inspiration.

SneakPeek Pro enhances previews of graphics and publishing files

Dan Frakes — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:05:00 -0800

SneakPeek Pro enhances Mac OS X's Quick Look feature by adding support for a number of graphics and publishing files. It also provides much more information about those files within Quick Look previews.

Add, remove, and replace PDF pages

Pariah S. Burke — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0800

Pariah Burke walks you through the process of adding, removing, and replacing pages in complex Acrobat Pro PDF files.

Extracting content from PDF files

Pariah S. Burke — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:35:00 -0800

Contrary to popular belief, it's really easy to retrieve content from finished PDF documents.

Fonts in the wild

Jay J. Nelson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0800

You don't have to be a font designer to enjoy identifying fonts in public places. Jay Nelson walks you through exploring fonts wherever you are.

More Mac bundles for the masses

Nicholas Bonsack — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:30:00 -0800

TheMacSale 2 and TheMacBundles offer their own respective bundles of Mac software for $50, but at what cost to developers?

Solve inkjet printer problems

Robert Ellis — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0800

Troubled by blurry prints or strange colors? Try these solutions to common printer frustrations.

Microsoft releases Office 2004, 2008 updates

Ramu Nagappan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:49:00 -0800

On Tuesday, Microsoft issued updates for its Office 2004 and 2008 suites of Mac software.

Bugs & Fixes: What bugs Mac OS X 10.6.2 tackles

Ted Landau — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:27:00 -0800

The Mac OS X 10.6.2 update fixes several bugs that Ted Landau looked at in previous columns. Here's a rundown of what the updated OS addresses.

Keep track of changes in Pages

Kirk McElhearn — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:37:00 -0800

Apple's Pages not only tracks changes and comments in your documents, but also lets you share those changes, even with Microsoft Word users.

Scary fonts

Jay J. Nelson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0700

Planning a Halloween party or celebration? Or just sending a card? Here are places where you can find some original fonts for the occasion.

Scrivener offers hefty NaNoWriMo discounts

Aayush Arya — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:18:00 -0700

To help you get through next month's National Novel Writing Month, Literature and Latte is offering some hefty discounts and an extended trial version of its novel-writing application Scrivener.

Save printer ink by using an ink-saving font

Rick Broida — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:46:00 -0700

Ecofont is a free typeface that promises to reduce ink use by up to 20 percent.

Mac writing tools

Jason Snell — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:15:00 -0700

In advance of National Novel Writing Month, Jason Snell shows you various Mac tools for writing, organizing, and focusing.

TypeStyler makes long-awaited OS X debut

Philip Michaels — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:33:00 -0700

Strider Software has brought its desktop publishing app, which lets users customize and create special effects with fonts, to OS X after seven years of development work.

Mac News Briefs: Business Card Composer 5 adds map integration

Macworld Staff — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:58:00 -0700

Google Maps integration in the latest version of the business card creation tool lets users include a map and directions on their business cards. Also, Ambrosia Software updated Snapz Pro X and RecoSoft announced a version of its PDF2Office file conversion utility aimed at iWork users.

Design basics: The alignment analysis

Lesa Snider — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0700

You don't need a degree in graphic design to create great-looking documents. You just have to follow a few simple rules. Today we learn about alignment.

Mac News Briefs: Acrobat, Reader updates tackle security vulnerability

Macworld Staff — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:58:00 -0700

The 9.2 updates for Acrobat and Adobe Reader address vulnerabilities that could cause the applications to crash and potentially allow an attack to take control of the affected system. Also, SuperDuper and Cocktail both saw maintenance updates released on Tuesday.

Mac News Briefs: PDFpen has new OCR engine

Macworld Staff — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:25:00 -0700

PDFpen 4.5 uses version 15.5 of the OmniPage OCR engine, which should improve accuracy in the PDF editing program. Also updated on Tuesday were Typinator, RealBasic and Real Studio, VideoFlash Converter, and Djay.

iWork update delivers a number of fixes

Philip Michaels — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:27:00 -0700

The 9.0.3 update for iWork '09 includes fixes for suite-wide issues as well as for the individual apps that make up the collection of productivity applications.

Mac News Briefs: BoinxTV, Cinematize add Snow Leopard compatibility

Macworld Staff — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:46:00 -0700

Boinx added Snow Leopard compatibility to its BoinxTV video podcasting tool, while Miraizaon did the same for its Cinematize DVD movie clip extraction offerings. Also, Werck unveiled Checkout 3, and Zervix released the new PDF Checkpoint.

Mac News Briefs: Major update for Workgroups suite

Macworld Staff — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:47:00 -0700

Workgroups 2010, the productivity management software suite for marketing, creating design, packaging, and prepress workgroups, features a new Document Organizer and browser-based proofing tool. Also, IntelliScanner released a sub-$100 version of its scanner-based organizational tool, and a Carbon Copy Cloner update now works with Snow Leopard’s HFS+ filesystem compression.

Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion

Elizabeth Montalbano — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:47:00 -0700

Adobe has agreed to buy Web analytics company Omniture for $1.8 billion in cash.

Mac News Briefs: iStudio Publisher design app updated

Macworld Staff — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:19:00 -0700

iStudio Publisher 1.1 features a new image manipulation tool and an improved image inspector palette that gives users more control over document images. In other news, the SneakPeek Photo plug-in adds image data to Quick Look previews and more developers updated their apps for OS X 10.6.

Design basics—the proximity principle

Lesa Snider — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:30:00 -0700

When it comes to designing pleasing ads, brochures, and flyers, space matters.

Adobe: CS4 exhibits minor Snow Leopard issues

Peter Cohen — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:24:00 -0700

Adobe product manager John Nack says that Creative Suite 4 has been tested with Snow Leopard, and "everything is good" with a couple of exceptions.