Ventura 10 review
The original desktop publishing package for IBM PC, Ventura lost ground over the years to strong competition from the likes of PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and now ...
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Phaser 8200N review
The Phaser 8200N is an affordable choice for groups of creatives who need a full-featured, networkable colour printer but don’t require an expensive colour laser ...
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CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11 review
After a long period of consistently failing to keep the Windows and Mac versions of CorelDraw Graphics Suite in sync, Corel now looks like it ...
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QX Tools Pro review
Quark users have always relied on a variety of XTensions – add-on software modules – to extend the capability of QuarkXPress or customize it to ...
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Portfolio 6 review
Extensis says that Portfolio 6 is a complete rewrite of its popular asset-management program. It makes the cataloguing and tracking of image and document files ...
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QuarkXPress 5.0 review
It’s been a long time coming. Years have passed as Quark has slowly, achingly, ponderously, and now finally delivered version 5.0 of the world’s most-popular ...
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Suitcase 10 review
Suitcase 10 for Macintosh is this year’s upgrade to the ever-popular font manager. This version was initially released for Mac OS 8.1 to 9.1, with ...
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PageMaker 7 review
This was a bit of a surprise. PageMaker 6.5 Plus was supposedly the grand finale in 1999, after which Adobe hinted that the hoary old ...
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Acrobat 5 review
This is the first major upgrade to Acrobat for two years, and is intended to take Adobe’s Portable Document Format further into the corporate/office market ...
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Canvas 8 review
For a one-stop, out-of-the-box graphic studio, Deneba Canvas surely holds the crown. It delivers a true, integrated mix of vector, bitmap, layout, and Web tools ...
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PDF Creator 2.0 review
PDF Creator 2.0 is a lower-cost alternative to Adobe’s Distiller, able to turn any file into a platform, browser and printer-independent PDF document through the ...
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iMac DV SE review
For the past couple of weeks, I've been using the Flower Power iMac, an all-in-one Macintosh that comes in a case printed with psychedelic, multicolored ...
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Suitcase 9 review
Managing fonts is not in itself a terribly challenging task. However, when the number of fonts on your system exceeds 40 or so, it gets ...
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iSpace 1.0 review
iSpace is the latest creation from Caligari – makers the 3D modelling, rendering and animation app trueSpace. iSpace is a Web authoring package, but not ...
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InProduction 1.0 review
InProduction is a versatile preflight checking, fixing, colour separation, trapping and printing utility for PDFs created by Adobe Acrobat. It can detect most of the ...
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Director 8 Studio review
Another year, another release of Director. Version 7 was a superb product, and Macromedia will have done well if it can improve upon the features ...
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Corel Linux OS review
Unix aficionados have for years chronicled vendors’ attempts to push Unix onto the desktop. We’ve watched all such attempts end in abject failure and total ...
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Canvas 7 review
Graphic artists might think they’ve seen it all, but they truly haven’t until they try Canvas 7. The program was conceived with the goal of ...