Monthly Archive for April, 2008

The Beziér Artist’s Liberation Front: Adobe Illustrator Feature Requests

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George Coghill
on April 26, 2008
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Adobe Illustrator logoAfter an engaging exchange on Twitter with illustrators: Garth Bruner and Von “Vonster” Glitschka, who are constantly Twittering about their frustrations with being forced to switch from Freehand to Illustrator after Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, things reached the point where all involved thought that we need a way to band together and get some feature requests implemented in the next version of Adobe Illustrator.

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Adobe Illustrator plugin Phantasm CS Studio Offers Duotones,Vector Halftones, Filters, Live Effects Color Adjustment & More

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George Coghill
on April 26, 2008
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Halftone dots exampleAdobe Illustrator plugin Phantasm CS offers in-line embedded image editing, color checking and separations, duotones and vector halftones, filters and live effects color adjustment. Looks like a pretty great plugin for Illustrator users who do a lot of bitmap image placing.

Personally I do any layout work in InDesign, and not much of my work requires having bitmap images in the Illustrator file outside of placing a template for tracing. However, the halftone and separation features look like they might be really handy. 

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Font Robot

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George Coghill
on April 22, 2008
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Font Robot


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Automated Online Estimated Tax Payments For Freelancers & Self-Employed

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George Coghill
on April 22, 2008
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Just a quick tip for the freelancing and self-employed — that pain you feel paying all your taxes at once because you’re too lazy or forgetful to dole out your quarterly tax payments to Uncle Sam? It’s over. If you’re like me, and 99% of your banking and bill-paying is done online, there’s a tax payment solution for you.

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Handy List Of Hidden Characters Used In InDesign Text Blocks

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George Coghill
on April 17, 2008
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Handy list of all ‘Hidden Characters’ used in InDesign text blocks: http://twurl.nl/sl7py8


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