Typos around town 3

It’s easy to poke fun from my glass house, but it can sometimes be quite funny too. According to this TV message at a hotel I was staying at, the Marriot offers ’special services’ for lonely women whose husbands have died.

Typos around town 2

This time, let’s consider the topic of ambiguity. At the risk of appearing too pedantic, I found this notice (at the same gym as before!) somewhat striking at first glance. I thought it was telling me that I was short of breath and had chest pains…

Flashing images in InDesign, grey images in InCopy

I saw this yesterday on a sub-editor’s PC but would not have believed it if I hadn’t seen it for myself. After the sub had zoomed in to an InDesign page layout, the pictures (and there were a lot of them) appeared to be flashing on and off. When the same user opened a story from those pages in InCopy, the pictures were all greeked out as grey boxes…

The appeal of ballet boys at London Evening Standard

I’m still intrigued by this London Evening Standard standfirst on 13 May for a feature about the Billy Elliot stage musical…

Men’s magazines suffer from missed branding opportunities

In last weekend’s Observer newspaper, James Brown, founder of Loaded, wrote a useful analysis of the failing market for men’s magazines in the UK. You can read it here.

Typos around town 1

The first of an irregular series…

UniQlo apostrophe horror

Here’s the front window of my local UniQlo last weekend. After snapping this shot, I attempted to peel off the apostrophe but my daughter dragged me away.

InDesign: High Quality Display greeks my text!

Here’s the scenario: you change the Display Performance setting of your Adobe InDesign layout from Typical Display to High Quality Display. Without reason, your text suddenly becomes greeked, even though you thought you had set greeking to zero (0pt) for the document.

Adobe announces Creative Suite 4

Today Adobe revealed more details of its imminent Creative Suite 4 software collections, due to become available some time next month (October 2008). As with versions 2 and 3 before it, the version 4 release is Adobe’s opportunity to upgrade all of its major applications in one go. Scroll down for prices.

NEC’s widescreen display is new black (sorry)

NEC has launched the MultiSync 24WMG3, a 24-inch widescreen LCD display modelled in rather tasty-looking shiny black plastic.

Markzware FlightCheck 6.12

Markzware has updated FlightCheck, its flagship print preflighting software, to version 6.12. The update allows you to drag and drop entire folders of QuarkXPress or InDesign files onto the application icon for processing. Other changes include better tolerance of certain types of bad data, and improved support for Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress 7 and InDesign CS3 files. QuarkXPress 8 is not yet supported. The update is free to all registered owners.
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