Archive for March, 2007
Canadian Edition of QuarkXPress 7 Available
Dual-Language (French and English) QuarkXPress 7 Canadian Edition
DENVER & MONTREAL–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Quark announced today that it will release a new edition of QuarkXPress 7, the award-winning software for multi-channel page-layout and design, for Canadian customers. QuarkXPress 7 Canadian Edition will include English and French manuals, spell check and hyphenation functionality and will start shipping to distribution partners in Q2 2007.
“Quark is responding to the requirements of Canadian customers, as well as the French language requirements of the Quebec government, by providing software that fully supports both French and English-speaking users,” said Richard Pasewark, Quark’s senior vice president of Sales (Americas). “Canadian users now have an attractive option to purchase or upgrade to QuarkXPress 7 and benefit from its workflow and collaboration features for the same price as the English version of QuarkXPress. We are pleased to make QuarkXPress 7 easily accessible to French and English-speaking customers.”
QuarkXPress 7 Canadian Edition provides user interfaces in both French and English. Users can switch freely between these languages and use fully localized menus and windows in QuarkXPress. In addition, it supports spell-checking and full text authoring, following specific hyphenation and justification rules for French, U.S. English, and International English. Read more
Free Video Training for Apollo Alpha from lynda.com
An Exclusive Look at the Alpha of Adobe’s New Development Tool
OJAI, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lynda.com, the company specializing in self-paced career and computer training in digital media and design, today introduced Apollo Alpha Preview with Mike Chambers.
“This is Adobe Labs’ second major free public preview of an alpha version. The industry should applaud Adobe for being so open about its newest and most important tools. Apollo is poised to be a great new authoring platform, with its ability to combine Flash, Flex, CSS, HTML, PDF, JavaScript, and Ajax to create web-enabled applications that can be deployed on the desktop. In honor of Adobe’s free offering, we have made our video training free as well!” says Lynda Weinman, CEO of lynda.com.
Join Mike Chambers, Adobe’s senior product manager for Apollo developer relations, as he gives an exclusive, hands-on glimpse into the alpha version of Adobe’s powerful new development tool. Web developers fluent in Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax have been promised a smooth transitional tool for building cross-platform desktop and hybrid web/desktop applications, and Mike shows just how Apollo fulfills this promise. Read more
Public Alpha of Apollo Debuts on Adobe Labs
New Technology Enables Web Developers to Extend RIAs to the Desktop
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that the first public alpha version of Apollo is now available for developers on Adobe Labs. Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system application runtime that allows web developers to leverage their existing skills in HTML, JavaScript and Ajax, as well as Adobe® Flash® and Adobe Flex™ software to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. Apollo combines the reach of Internet technologies with the richness of desktop applications, working seamlessly across operating systems and outside the browser to deliver a more consistent and engaging user experience. The alpha version of the Apollo application runtime and the Apollo Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) can be downloaded for free from www.adobe.com/go/apollo. Read more