Russell Viers is an Adobe Certified Instructor who also teaches QuarkXPress. His 27 years in the newspaper and printing industries allows him to bring real world expertise to those he trains. Read more...
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What’s the Paper Worth I was in London for a week and decided to take the opportunity to do a very unscientific study into the value of a newspaper.
London is the perfect setting for this because there are so many papers to choose from including tabloids, broadsheets, conservative, splashy, free and paid.
So the goal of the study was simple: [...]
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Uploading Yearbook Pages to Walsworth Before exporting PDFs that will ultimately be submitted to Walsworth for printing, you should first make sure your computer is set up properly. Refer to previous blog article: http://www.russellviers.com/?p=401. Please note that this article is VERY boring and many people have complained about falling asleep halfway through and not getting it all done. My apologies [...]
Read moreNo, not yet…still busy catching up on stuff.
I have some of my mates lined up to help me on it, so I’ll keep you posted. Lots of good stuff coming up between now and Christmas, so plenty of reasons to have them.
Cheers for now…RV
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One reason I don’t write books I’m often asked if I have written a book or plan to write a book…and the answer is no.
I get asked to write books from time to time by various publishers and the answer is always the same: “I’ll think about it.” Then, after 15 minutes or so…”No thanks.”
There are many reasons I don’t want [...]
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The Music of Christmas As a rule, I like Christmas music.
I think it recycles itself well, coming around once a year, like an old friend dropping by to visit for awhile. Often, when hearing a certain tune, I’ll flashback to great Christmas memories with family or friends.
Some songs, however, are more like that annoying uncle who you wish would [...]
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What’s the Paper Worth I was in London for a week and decided to take the opportunity to do a very unscientific study into the value of a newspaper.
London is the perfect setting for this because there are so many papers to choose from including tabloids, broadsheets, conservative, splashy, free and paid.
So the goal of the study was simple: [...]
Read more...
Uploading Yearbook Pages to Walsworth Before exporting PDFs that will ultimately be submitted to Walsworth for printing, you should first make sure your computer is set up properly. Refer to previous blog article: http://www.russellviers.com/?p=401. Please note that this article is VERY boring and many people have complained about falling asleep halfway through and not getting it all done. My apologies [...]
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I’m sorry, what did you say? I was in Nizhny Novgorod awhile back speaking at an event for Adobe and I was joking with my good buddy Roman Menyakin about the instructions in the elevator and how they just didn’t translate as I’m sure they had intended.
We exchange a few stories of things we had seen and heard over the years, [...]
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Exporting PDFs for Walsworth Now that you’ve built some pages you want to submit to Walsworth to include in your yearbook, what’s next? Well, you have to get the pages from InDesign into a PDF that can easily be uploaded to the printing plant for output.
The PDF you create should look exactly like the page you created in InDesign [...]
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