Technology Spotlight
"It's a Colorful, Wired World" (PDF: 231 KB / 3 pages)
by Tamis Nordling
Adobe® PostScript® 3™ printing systems offer a variety of new features for better, faster, Web-savvy printing. Here's an overview of what they are and how they're likely to affect you.
Reviews (PDF: 182 KB / 2 pages)
Hot Door's CADtools plug-in for Illustrator®
Extensis Corp.'s Mask Pro plug-in for Photoshop®
Intergraph's ViZ fx plug-in for Adobe Premiere®
On Paper
"Sheet Smart" (PDF: 116 KB / 1 page)
by Constance J. Sidles
"Going against the grain" is more than a cliché when you're weighing the merits of one paper characteristic over another. Learn how paper's grain direction affects the finish of your jobs.
Web Watcher
"No Speeding" (PDF: 116 KB / 1 page)
by Glenn Fleishman
We all expect technology to improve and get cheaper over time. Why should Internet access be any different? Here's the latest about the state of our telephone system and why the hottest new technologies like ADSL are still more than a phone call away.
How-tos
"Mapping It Out" (PDF: 1.4 MB / 3 pages)
by Ellen Wixted
The new hyperlinks feature in PageMaker® makes light work of page-hopping within your publication (or any PDF or HTML document you create) or out onto the Internet. All you have to do is know where you want to go.
"Animation Revelations" (PDF: 380 KB / 4 pages)
by J. Scott Hamlin
GIF animations can add pizzazz to your Web pages, especially if you've taken the time to optimize with a global palette and transparency. Here are some techniques for creating small, sophisticated animations.
"Beyond the Magic Wand" (PDF: 198 KB / 2 pages)
by Linnea Dayton and Jack Davis
Color selection is an important part of many image-editing tasks in Photoshop. When the magic wand just doesn't do the trick, consider starting with one of the pre-existing color channels or use the Color Range dialog box.
"Rocking the Foundation" (PDF: 479 KB / 4 pages)
by Olav Martin Kvern
PostScript code may sound like a foreign language you have no interest in speaking, but a) all of your applications speak it, and b) it's not nearly as hard as Latin conjugations. Take a beginners' course and discover some of the tricks even a nonprogrammer can pull off with a little PostScript ingenuity.
To view the PostScript files used to create the spirograph graphics shown in the article, click on: Graphic 1, Graphic 2, Graphic 3
Feature
"In Good Company" (PDF: 710 KB / 6 pages)
by Hatsy Thompson
San Francisco-based Salon Magazine may not have set out specifically to expand the horizons of Web publishing. But with its adventuresome, tough-minded editorial vision and Web-savvy design, high regard for the intelligence of the online community that's formed around the magazine, and cohesive strategy for becoming a profitable publishing venture, it's setting new standards of excellence for online publications.
Q&A
Adobe Magazine's Q&A sections include answers to questions frequently asked of Adobe's technical-support department and tips that'll help you use your Adobe products better and faster.
Acrobat® (PDF: 182 KB / 2 pages)
FrameMaker® (PDF: 116 KB / 2 pages)
Illustrator (PDF: 116 KB / 2 pages)
PageMaker (PDF: 248 KB / 3 pages)
PageMill® · SiteMill® (PDF: 611 KB / 2 pages)
Photoshop (PDF: 380 KB / 3 pages)
Adobe Premiere · After Effects® (PDF: 132 KB / 2 pages)
