Posts Tagged ‘file’

When an InDesign .INDD file is really a QuarkXPress .QXP layout…

Posted on October 10th, 2010 by David Montgomery Jr.
The layout file had an Adobe InDesign CS3 icon and the proper “.iNDD” file extension yet would not open in CS4, CS3 or quite frankly anything Adobe! Why? Because, as it turned out, it was really a QuarkXPress layout and a version 5.01 file at that! The customer though it was a corrupt InDesign job. No, it was not my file format x-ray vision that told me that, but FlightCheck Professional from Markzware. And with the help of Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) I was able to get this customers file converted into an InDesign…

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In Alphabetical Order: File Under: Graphic Design, Schools, or Werkplaats Typografie

Posted on September 30th, 2010 by David Montgomery Jr.
Product DescriptionThis is a schizophrenic book. Between its covers are: a book about typography and graphic design, arranged around recent work from a single source and incubator, the Werkplaats Typografie (Typography Workshop/WT) in Arnheim, the Netherlands; a book about a specific approach and pedagogy, the methods that the WT uses to study and practice graphic design, in which students integrate all aspects of the discipline and its forms in their own expressive vocabulary; a book that presents a broad selection of work from a “school-in-progress,” the WT, along with texts that articulate their common foundations and ideas. Actually, perhaps…

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How to organize your DXF file cuts in Mach3

Posted on August 27th, 2010 by David Montgomery Jr.
This short video tutorial will show you how to organize your DXF file cuts in Mach3. Example, If you need to cut the outside shape last. Rating: 0 | Views: 5037

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