Adobe Announces
"Now Playing Everywhere . . . After Effects 4.0" (PDF: 247 KB / 2 pages)
Adobe introduces a powerful and greatly enhanced version of After Effects®, the award-winning motion graphics and visual effects tool. View an example of how the new Particle Playground effect can help your ideas take flight:
"Flies"(QT Movie: 395 KB)

On Paper
"The Ineffable Mystery of Paper Grades" (PDF: 113 KB / 1 page)
by Constance J. Sidles
It was so much easier when we just had papyrus.

Web Watcher
"Nowhere to Hide" (PDF: 98 KB / 1 page)
by Glenn Fleishman
To catch a thief - use the Web to track down plagiarism.

Reviews (PDF: 235 KB / 2 pages)
"The Broadcast Calls for a Steady Grain"
by Conrad Chavez
"Making It Perfectly Clear"
by Ted Alspach
"Border Skirmish"
by Sandee Cohen

How-tos
"Your Dais Will Come" (PDF: 133 KB / 3 pages)
by Audrey Thompson
Keep calm for presentations by taking a little PDF.

"Hit the Spot" (PDF: 244 KB / 3 pages)
by Bryan Chamberlain
Ready for prime time, it's Photoshop® 5.0's spot-color channels.

"Escher Sketch" (PDF: 389 KB / 4 pages)
by Olav Martin Kvern
Discover Archimedean tessellations, a 13th-century Moorish palace, and a menagerie of planarians - all inside Illustrator®.

Feature
"On the Fast Track" (PDF: 261 KB / 7 pages)
by Constance J. Sidles
It's smart, it's reliable, and it delivers ads incredibly fast. No, it's not a taxicab on jet fuel. It's AP AdSEND.

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: 141 KB / 2 pages)
FrameMaker® (PDF: 53 KB / 1 page)
Illustrator (PDF: 81 KB / 2 pages)
PageMaker® (PDF: 137 KB / 3 pages)
Photoshop (PDF: 262 KB / 3 pages)
Adobe Premiere® · After Effects® (PDF: 155 KB / 2 pages)

Backstage (PDF: 275 KB / 1 page)
How Adobe Magazine produces PDFs of its articles for the Web.